Darrell Steinberg

Type: Person

Name: Darrell Steinberg

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 reports

State legislature creates confusion over public records bill

SACRAMENTO -- The Legislature's Democratic leaders on Wednesday pledged to address a budget bill that threatens public access to information held by local governments, but to do so in different ways.The attempts to backtrack on the bill occurred late ... [Published Eureka Times-Standard - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Darrell Steinberg, Jerry Brown, Bob Huff

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 5 reports

New fight over weakening state transparency law

Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders are praising the state's existing law requiring public access to government documents -- even though there's disagreement about a new budget provision to make portions of that law an optional duty for local go ... [Published News10Net - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Jerry Brown, Darrell Steinberg, John Pérez, Corroboration, Stealth

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

OPEN RECORDS: Legislature backtracks on open-records bill

SACRAMENTO – Assembly and Senate leaders took different tacks Wednesday to escape a backlash over recently approved budget legislation that critics said would encourage local governments to ignore parts of the state public-records act.Acting on a January ... [Published Riverside Press Enterprise - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Darrell Steinberg, Jerry Brown, Richard Roth, End State, Sacramento (California, United States)

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Capitol Alert: Senate plots own course in response to records act controversy

The tussling over the California Public Records Act took a new turn Wednesday as Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said the Senate will hold any bill from the Assembly that contains amendments meant to restore mandates to the law.Sen. Mark Leno, ... [Published Sacramento Bee - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Darrell Steinberg, Mark Leno

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Committee supports Brown's nominee to head prisons

SACRAMENTO, Calif.A legislative committee recommended Wednesday that the Senate confirm Gov. Jerry Brown's choice to lead California's prison system.Members of the Senate Rules Committee challenged how acting Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard is dealing ... [Published San Jose Mercury News - 10 hours ago]

Entities: prison, Sentencing, Rehabilitation, Crime

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Republican Party (US)

Bad omen: Calif. Dems show their supermajority colors

A journalist in California's capital city says the state recently got a taste of what the future holds, now that Democrats basically own the state legislature.Since Democrats secured both houses of the state legislature, they have been able to approve ... [Published One News Now - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Dan Walters, Taxes, Republican Party (US), Darrell Steinberg, Demonstration

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Capitol Alert: AM Alert: California representatives roll rice for reward

Capitol Alert: Dan Walters Daily: Will Gov. Brown gut the public records act? 51 minutes ago 56 minutes agoDeals!View AllSearch for DealsSearch local inventory, coupons and morePowered byNational VideosBy Jeremy B. White — jwhite@sacbee.comYes, it's time ... [Published Merced Sun-Star - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Dan Walters, Darrell Steinberg, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, San Onofre

First reported Jun 19 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 reports

Steinberg to endorse Dickinson for his Senate seat

Senate Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg will be at Assemblyman Roger Dickinson's side when he announces his candidacy for Steinberg's Sacramento-area Senate seat on Wednesday.Steinberg's support is a major coup for fellow Democrat Dickinson, who is ... [Published Stateline - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Darrell Steinberg, Sacramento (California, United States), Heather Fargo, Don Nottoli, Steve Cohn

First reported Jun 19 2013 - Updated Jun 19 2013 - 1 reports

EDITORIAL: There's still work ahead on state finances

For a half-dozen years, California legislators banked on an economic recovery that didn't materialize to balance a state budget that kept sinking deeper into red ink.This year, with a slow but unmistakable recovery -- and temporary tax hikes -- boosting ... [Published Individual.com - Jun 19 2013]

Entities: Darrell Steinberg, Jerry Brown, Taxes, Unemployment Insurance, Health Care Reform

First reported Jun 19 2013 - Updated Jun 19 2013 - 1 reports

Logue promises to fight for water storage ? with or without Legislature; Town hall meeting focuses on agricultural interests

Assemblyman Dan Logue said that if a 2014 water bond to help create additional water storage doesn't pass the Legislature, he will go around Sacramento.Logue, R-Loma Rica, said he will collect the signatures and raise the money to get a ballot measure ... [Published Appeal-Democrat.com - Jun 19 2013]

Entities: Agriculture, Jim Houston, Sacramento (California, United States), Darrell Steinberg

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

California Senate Passes Budget Bill Ahead of Deadline

SACRAMENTO, CA -- The following information was released by the President pro Tempore of the California State Senate Darrell Steinberg: The California State Senate has passed the 2013-14 budget bill which is balanced, establishes a $1.1 billion reserve, ... [Published HighBeam Research - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: California State Senate, Deadline, Darrell Steinberg

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

California Budget Puts Some Health Care Issues on Hold

California's budget agreement announced and approved last week puts a couple hotly contested health care issues on hold, making some stakeholders nervous and angry, but for the most part, this year's balancing act is kinder to health and social services ... [Published California Healthline - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Darrell Steinberg, Autism, Health Care

Quotes

"The amendment will clarify that this controversy was never about weakening the PublicPublic Records Act," Steinberg said. "it instead is about whether state taxpayers pay the bill for what cities and counties should be doing on their own."

Legislature plots new course following Public Records Act controversy [Published Modesto Bee - 4 hours ago]

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