SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) issued the following statement on Former San Jose Police Officer Mark McNamara who allegedly sent racist text messages:
SB 51 will support small entrepreneurs by renewing the state’s ability to issue provisional licenses for local cannabis equity applicants
October 09, 2023
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 51 by Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), which will promote greater diversity in California’s cannabis industry. Specifically, SB 51 will allow the Department of Cannabis Control to issue provisional licenses for local cannabis retail equity applicants.
A provisional license enables applicants to conduct business while completing the requirements for an annual license, and eventually become a fully licensed participant in the cannabis retail market.
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 673, Senator Steven Bradford’s “Ebony Alert” legislation.
California will become the first state to create an alert notification system to address the crisis of missing Black children and young Black women between the ages of 12 and 25.
SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) issued the following statement on the selection of Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein:
Amendments to SB 490 mark the first substantive legislation introduced following the CA Reparations Task Force’s Final Report
August 22, 2023
SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) has introduced legislation that will create a new state agency in California to administer reparations to the descendants of slavery. The California American Freedman Affairs Agency is one of the recommendations that came directly as a result of Senator Bradford’s work on the California Reparations Task Force.
