Mark Leno

State Sen. Mark Leno, chairman of the Senate Public Safety Committee, criticized the plan's provision for some new prison construction, which would add about 2,400 beds in two years, in addition to the 5,000-bed private prisons.
"I think that doesn't deal with the problem," Leno said. "The overcrowding is a symptom. Bui......lding new beds doesn't address the problem that caused the symptom." He said the state should change its sentencing guidelines, a proposal that is not in the administration's plan.繼續閱讀

“Bottom line is this is a desperate monopoly struggling to hold on to the privilege of their monopoly,” Leno told New Times. “There are probably few facts that have caused greater dysfunction to the operation of California government than two-thirds majority vote... There’s something clearly unfair about a simple major......ity amending the Constitution in order to require a two-thirds majority to allow people to choose how they want their energy delivered, and what kind of energy they want delivered... PG&E knows that if voters are able to exercise their democratic rights, we will see community choice aggregation in California proliferate... This initiative is an aggressive attempt to steal voters’ democratic rights.”繼續閱讀

Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), co-author of the bill, said in a press release, "Employers cannot allow health insurance companies to charge higher premiums to their customers on the basis of gender, and that same policy should apply to individual health care plans...Women are more likely to work part time, less l......ikely to receive health insurance from their employers, and often get paid lower wages for doing the same job as their male counterparts. Insurers should not make matters worse by charging women more than men for health insurance."繼續閱讀

"When California offered marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2008, spouses who were already married in another state or country were prohibited from re-marrying in California. Now those couples and their families will receive the rights and protections under the law to which they are entitled. This legislation ens......ures that same-sex couples are protected by existing California law that recognizes all marriages equally, regardless of where they are performed."繼續閱讀