Senate Bill 254 from state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, would also open the prison system to legislators and other state officials, including the governor, in order to improve transparency and oversight.
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The Legislature today unanimously approved SB 899, a bill by state Senators Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, that would bolster California’s “Red Flag” law and other state statutes that prevent gun violence.
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On Wednesday night the California Senate passed SB906, a bill seeking to bring transparency to name, image and likeness (NIL) deals in college sports.
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The state Legislature today approved state Sen. Nancy’s Skinner’s legislation, SB 254, to restore news media access to California prisons.
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The state Legislature last night approved Sen. Nancy Skinner’s SB 906, a bill that would bring transparency to name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals in California college sports and raise awareness about gender equity. SB 906 received strong bipartisan support in both the Assembly and Senate.
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Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), a member of the Progressive Caucus and fervent criminal justice reform advocate, supports the legislative package and has also been an outspoken opponent of the ballot measure.
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“We know that retail theft has consequences, big and small, physical and financial,” state Sen. Nancy Skinner, who authored one of the bills, said Friday.
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State Senator Nancy Skinner said that the package of bills is not aimed at small-time thieves, but rather at organized crime rings.