SACRAMENTO – Today the Senate passed AB 873 with bipartisan support, highlighting the urgency of young people’s growing reliance on the internet and social media to consume news. If signed, AB 873 would integrate media literacy instruction into the core subjects that all students learn from kindergarten through 12th grade in California.
SACRAMENTO - Today the Senate Education Committee unanimously passed Assemblymember Marc Berman’s (D-Menlo Park) bill AB 1054, which will ensure that all public high school students in California have access to computer science education.
SACRAMENTO - Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) secured $2.5 million in the 2023-24 state budget for two affordable farmworker housing projects on the San Mateo County Coast. The funding includes $1.25 million for the City of Half Moon Bay and $1.25 million for San Mateo County for separate farmworker housing projects.
SACRAMENTO - Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) secured $500,000 in the 2023-24 state budget for the City of Los Altos to retrofit the City’s Community Center to house the Emergency Operations Center.
SACRAMENTO - Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) secured $500,000 in the 2023-24 state budget for the City of Campbell to renovate City Hall to improve accessibility and meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards.
SACRAMENTO – Today Senator Josh Becker (D-San Mateo) and Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) honored Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS), a social service nonprofit and farmworker advocacy organization based in Half Moon Bay as their 2023 California Nonprofit of the Year.
SACRAMENTO – Today the Assembly unanimously passed AB 873, which would integrate media literacy instruction into the core subjects for all students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
SACRAMENTO - Today the Joint Legislative Audit Committee approved Assemblymember Marc Berman’s (D-Menlo Park) request to audit the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), with a focus on the areas of governance structure, project planning and management, financial viability, and fiscal oversight.
SACRAMENTO – Today Senator Josh Becker (D-San Mateo) and Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) announced that they have jointly chosen Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga as the 13th Senate District and 23rd Assembly District Woman of the Year. Dr.
SACRAMENTO – Last week Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) introduced AB 1380, which will strengthen California’s laws against revenge porn. The bill closes a loophole in current law used by perpetrators to evade punishment for distributing private sexual images of another person, either photos or video, without their consent.