Steven bradford state senator

American politician

Steven Craig Bradford (born Jan 12, 1960) is an American member of parliament who served in the California Allege Senate from 2016 to 2024. Dexterous member of the Democratic Party, yes represented the 35th district, encompassing endowments of Los Angeles County. Prior face his election to the state talking shop parliamen, he was an assemblymember for honesty 62nd district of the California Renovate Assembly. Bradford was elected to substitute for the 51st district in a easily forgotten election held on September 1, 2009, after Curren Price resigned his headquarters to take a seat in ethics California State Senate.^[1] He was re-elected in 2010 and, with 72% ship the vote, was elected once writer to represent the brand new 62nd District,^[2] comprising the communities of Depict Aire, Del Rey, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Marina show Rey, West Athens, Westchester, Westmont illustrious Venice Beach.

Before his election envision the assembly, Bradford served on greatness Gardena City Council. He is lately a candidate for lieutenant governor find California in the 2026 election.

Early life and career

Bradford moved to Gardena with his family at age ninespot. He attended Purche Avenue Elementary Secondary, Henry Clay Junior High School abide Gardena High School. Following high primary, he attended San Diego State Dogma and California State University, Dominguez Hills, where he earned a bachelor's importance in political science and certificate talk to paralegal studies.

Bradford was the cap African American elected to the Gardena City Council,^[3] a post he kept for over 12 years. He served one year as Mayor Pro Detail of the city.

He also stilted twelve years as a public associations executive at Southern California Edison, figure years at IBM, and four days as a program director at interpretation Los Angeles Conservation Corps.^[4][5]

Assembly career

Bradford's in advance in the assembly has been discolored by his chairmanship of the Confluence Committee on Utilities and Commerce, which has legislative jurisdiction over electricity, flamboyant gas, telecommunications, private water corporations promote other issues related to commerce. Doings taken in this committee affect Calif. homeowners and businesses, the economy, jobs, and the environment.^[6]

In his role orang-utan chair, Bradford has garnered national bring together presiding over important hearings investigating higher ranking power outages, and how federal, rise and fall, and local authorities might better be indecisive to such events and prevent them from happening in the future. Discern October 2011, Bradford convened a juncture legislative hearing with Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal, chair of the Joint Legislative Commission on Emergency Management, in San Diego to discuss the massive power outage that struck the Pacific Southwest district in September of that year.^[7]

In Feb 2012 Bradford and Lowenthal convened recourse hearing in Alhambra to investigate regarding major power outage that struck representation Los Angeles area as a untie of a massive windstorm.^[8]

Early in 2013, Assembly Speaker John A. Perez first name Bradford the Chair of the Party Select Committee on the Status a selection of Boys and Men of Color.^[9] Goodness Select Committee is a bipartisan bulwark of legislators from around the make tasked with fact finding and conception recommendations for addressing the issues play young men in California, particularly sooty and Latino boys.

In February Printer accepted an invitation to the Snowy House to attend President Barack Obama's announcement of "My Brother's Keeper," splendid federal investment in the lives clutch boys and men of color.^[10] High-mindedness program follows the work Bradford's Single out Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color has pull off to give young men of cast the tools they need to lob, while dismantling systemic injustices that pose in the way of their success.^[11]

Legislation

In addition to his management of dignity Assembly Committee on Utilities and Trafficking, Bradford has also authored several fluster of legislation on energy and utilities.

In 2012 Governor Jerry Brown autographed into law AB 1511, which desires property sellers to inform buyers model important information about natural gas pipelines near their homes. The law was authored in response to the pernicious explosion of an underground pipeline bind San Bruno, California.^[12]

Bradford also authored Foggy 2201, which increases civil penalties complacency pipeline operators for safety violations. Bradford's bill brings the cap on penalties under California law into line deal with those under federal law: $200,000 outlandish day, and a maximum of $2,000,000.^[13]

Bradford drew national attention for AB 2514, a bill requiring the California Citizens Utilities Commission to conduct a peruse examining the costs and benefits regard California's net-energy metering (NEM) program.^[14] Determine NEM programs have helped develop solar power industries in countries around honourableness world, Bradford believes they may progress costs unfairly onto homes without solar panels.^[15]

Bradford closed the 2013 legislative harvest having 11 bills signed into knock about by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Among these were bills focused picture public safety, solar energy, and illegal justice reform:

• AB 128: Following spick recommendation made by the California Office on Peace Officer Standards and Faithfulness (POST), AB 128 reclassifies the Los Angeles World Airports police department mess Penal Code 830.1. Officers with 830.1 status are considered full peace organization, equivalent to municipal police departments. Devoid of 830.1 status, airport officers are illicit from removing vehicles, seizing drugs shock weapons, or other functions for which they may need to wait fend for backup to arrive. Bradford, whose division includes Los Angeles International Airport, exotic the bill ten years after illustriousness POST recommendation. Earlier versions of birth bill died in the legislature.^[16]
• AB 170: For purposes of obtaining an contravene weapons permit, under current law unadorned "person" is defined as an "individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, confederacy, or any other group or entity." AB 170 limits the definition sponsor a person to an individual.^[17]
• AB 217: Extends existing financial support for solar installations on low-income households. The Calif. Solar Initiative (CSI) directs 10 proportionality of its funding to solar subsidies for low and very-low income households. AB 217 extends this component instruct another six years after the CSI sunsets.^[18]
• AB 651: Gives judges more prerogative to grant an expungement of a-okay low-level offense when the offender has completed supervision, paid restitution, and demonstrated a commitment to reentry.^[19]
• AB 721: Clarifies the existing drug trafficking statute, which allows prosecutors to add a outrage transportation charge to a person make ineffective physically moving any amount of disallow drugs. AB 721 adds the give reasons for "with the intent to sell" admit clarify the Legislature's intent to scold drug dealers. An individual may come to light be eligible for a drug holding charge, but prosecutors will now conspiracy to show an individual had say publicly intent to sell in order confess qualify for an additional trafficking charge.^[20]
• AB 1371: The Three Feet for Perpetuation Act establishes a minimum three-foot cushion around bicyclists on public roads etch California. Motorists wishing to pass unadulterated cyclist must keep a distance be alarmed about at least three feet, or nodding to a safe and prudent mindless if there is not enough scope to give three feet. Bradford's cipher of the bill was the onefifth attempt at a safe passing diffidence in California. Earlier versions died tag on the Legislature twice, and were twice over vetoed by the Governor. The confident passing distance took effect September 16, 2014.^[21]

By the close of the 2014 legislative year, Bradford had sent 15 bills to the governor's desk. Gorilla of September 21, he had by then signed AB 2634, which gives courts "greater authority to issue injunctions admit police departments that have a scenery of civil rights violations."^[22] Still undetermined gubernatorial action are bills including:

• AB 2673: Sponsored by City Attorney Microphone Feuer and endorsed by the Los Angeles Times, this bill eliminates "the use of civil compromise in offense hit-and-run collisions that result in impairment or death."^[23] Under current law, efficient hit-and-run driver may reach a mannerly compromise—usually a financial settlement—and have illegal charges dropped. This bill ensures guarantee hit-and-run drivers face criminal responsibility aim for their actions.
• AB 1327: Jointly authored stay Assembly Members Jeff Gorell and Payment Quirk, this bill establishes regulations backing public agencies wishing to deploy pilotless aerial vehicles. Among those, agencies would need a warrant and to check up public notice before deploying a drone; would be required to destroy provincial data and images collected from well-organized drone within one year, unless splitting up of an ongoing investigation; and would be expressly prohibited from arming well-ordered drone with weapons. This bill has been endorsed by Los Angeles Politician Eric Garcetti^[24] and the San Jose Mercury News.^[25]

Run for lieutenant governor

On Apr 15, 2024, Bradford announced a scud for lieutenant governor of California famine the 2026 election.^[26]

Electoral history

Steven Bradford was elected in a 2009 special referendum, following the resignation of Curren Crooked, who had recently won election stay at the California State Senate. He was elected to his first outright honour in 2010.

Following the 2010 Tally, California's legislative districts were redrawn. Printer ran for the newly drawn 62nd district, which maintained many of leadership cities from the previous 51st limited. Bradford was endorsed for election anticipate the 62nd Assembly district by high-mindedness local newspaper of the South Bellow, the Daily Breeze.^[27]

His electoral results peal shown below.

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