On his second day on the job, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg announced (almost) a full roster of committee chairmanships in the state Senate.
Most of the picks are as Capitol Alert reported previously:
From Steinberg's office:
- Sen. Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego): Senate Appropriations Committee
- Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello): Senate Banking & Finance Committee
- Sen. Denise Ducheny (D-San Diego): Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
- Sen. Gloria Negrete-McLeod (D-Chino): Senate Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee
- Sen. Gloria Romero (D-East Los Angeles): Senate Education Committee
- Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkley): Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee
- Sen. Alex Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley): Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee
- Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto): Senate Environmental Quality Committee
- Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) Senate Governmental Organization Committee
- Sen. Elaine Alquist (D-Santa Clara) Senate Health Committee
- Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco): Senate Public Safety Committee
- Sen. Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro): Senate Judiciary Committee
- Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Augora Hills) Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee
- Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) Senate Transportation and Housing Committee
There are also some committee chairs we did not previously report.
Sen. Carol Liu, a freshman Democrat from Pasadena, will chair the Human Services Committee, previously chaired by the new Health Committee chair Elaine Alquist. Fellow freshman Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Martinez, will chair the Labor and Industrial Relations Committee.
Sen. Pat Wiggins, D-Santa Rosa, moves from the chairmanship of the Public Employees and Retirement Committee to the Local Government Committee.
Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, replaces her as the so-called PERS committee chair,
Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, will chair the Revenue and Taxation Committee.
There are currently 24 Democrats in the caucus (due to former Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas' recent resignation) and the announced committee chairmanships account for 19 of those members.
Who are the rest?
Well, there's Steinberg (who will chair Rules), Sen. Dean Florez (the new majority leader), Sen. Jenny Oropeza (the new caucus chair), Sen. Gil Cedillo (a member of the Rules Committee) and Sen. Leland Yee (the assistant president pro tem).
Still unannounced? The two GOP-chaired commitees, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs, chaired by Republican Sens. Abel Maldonado and Mark Wyland, respectively.
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