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===The 6th District===
===The 6th District===
The 6th District includes the capital city of [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]] parts of [[Elk Grove, California|Elk Grove]] and [[Citrus Heights, California|Citrus Heights]].<ref name="Bio">[http://dist06.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={F9D37D2E-AABF-4BC3-A95B-5189D6E5824B} Senate Biography]</ref>
The 6th District includes the capital city of [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]] parts of [[Elk Grove, California|Elk Grove]] and [[Citrus Heights, California|Citrus Heights]].<ref name="Bio">[http://dist06.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={F9D37D2E-AABF-4BC3-A95B-5189D6E5824B} Senate Biography]</ref>

==Mental Healthcare Advocate==
Throughout his legislative career, Steinberg has been a strong advocate for mental health care. He has called it “the under-attended issue in our time and in our society.” He is known within the mental health community as a long time champion. <ref>(http://www.californiahealthline.org/insight/2013/california-budget-puts-some-health-care-issues-on-hold)</ref>

Steinberg became passionate about mental health during his time on the [[Sacramento_City_Council|Sacramento City Council]]. In 1997, the City of Sacramento engaged in a lawsuit against Loaves and Fishes, a private charity providing food to the homeless. The free lunches began to draw thousands of homeless people which had become a nuisance to local business near the shelter in North Sacramento.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1997-03-04/news/mn-34618_1_public-nuisance/2</ref> Former Mayor [[Joe_Serna|Joe Serna]] and then Councilmember Steinberg were the only two members to vote against the lawsuit. Upon further investigation into the rapidly increasing homeless population, Steinberg discovered that an overwhelming portion of homeless suffered from mental illness and did not have access to proper mental health care. He took up the working on ways to help solve this issue.<ref>http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/past-present-future/content?oid=5447771</ref>


==Personal==
==Personal==

Revision as of 00:09, 23 October 2013

Darrell Steinberg
Steinberg in 2008
President pro tempore of the California State Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 1, 2008
Preceded byDon Perata
Member of the California State Senate
from the 6th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 4, 2006
Preceded byDeborah Ortiz
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 9th district
In office
December 7, 1998 – November 30, 2004
Preceded byDeborah Ortiz
Succeeded byDave Jones
Personal details
Born (1959-10-15) October 15, 1959 (age 65)
San Francisco, California
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseJulie Steinberg
ChildrenJordana
Ari
Residence(s)Sacramento, California
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (B.A.), University of California, Davis School of Law (J.D.)
ProfessionPolitician, Lawyer

Darrell Steven Steinberg (born October 15, 1959) is a Democratic politician from Sacramento, California. He is California Senate President pro Tempore and is the leader of the majority party in the California State Senate.

Steinberg is currently serving his second term in the California State Senate, representing the 6th District. He had previously served as a member of the California State Assembly (1998–2004) and as a member of the Sacramento City Council (1992–1998).

Education and early career

Steinberg graduated from University of California, Los Angeles where he earned a BA in economics, then earned a Juris Doctrate from University of California, Davis School of Law.[1]

He served as an employee rights attorney for the California State Employees Association for 10 years before his work as an Administrative Law Judge and mediator.[2]

California State Assembly

Darrell Steinberg was a member of the California State Assembly from 1998 until he was termed out in 2004. During his time in the Assembly Steinberg served as Chair of the Assembly Committees on Budget, Appropriations, Judiciary, Labor and Employment, and the Select Committee on High Priority Schools.

He authored 70 bills that were signed into law in areas that included Mental Health, K-12 education, foster care and workplace safety. Steinberg is considered a strong advocate for children and mental health issues.[3]

He authored legislation to focus additional educational resources on high-poverty schools and make them more accountable for improvement.[4] He authored several nationally recognized laws to improve the state’s foster care system, including measures to improve system accountability and educational stability. His legislation in foster care included AB 408, which mandated steps to help older foster youth find permanent homes and families.[5] He also passed AB 34, the first significant expansion of community mental health programs in more than a decade.[6]

Steinberg also authored AB 1127, a landmark bill to give stronger prosecutorial power to district attorneys to address serious and willful violations of Cal/OSHA regulations which result in worker injuries and deaths.[7] Some supporters referred to this legislation as "the Tosco bill" because of an accident that occurred at the Tosco Refinery near Martinez, California in 1999. The accident, which resulted in four deaths, was held up as an example of insufficient penalties for dangerous workplace-safety violations.[8]

State Senate

Steinberg is the President pro Tempore of the California State Senate. In February 2008, he was selected by Senate Democrats to become Pro Tem in the next legislative session, when the incumbent would be termed-out.[9][9] He took office in November 2008 as the first Senate leader from Sacramento since 1883.[9]

Before being elevated to Pro Tem, he was Chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.[10] He also chaired the Senate Select Committee on High School Graduation.,[10] the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, and the Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism.[10]

As a member of the State Senate, Steinberg continued many of the same causes he had undertaken as a member of the Assembly. He continued his work on improving test scores, aiding under performing schools, lowering dropout rates, and improving the state's mental health system.[11][12] In 2007, Steinberg introduced a bill to cap at 20 the number of hours high school students can work after school if their grade point average is not 2.5 or higher.[13]

The 6th District

The 6th District includes the capital city of Sacramento parts of Elk Grove and Citrus Heights.[10]

Mental Healthcare Advocate

Throughout his legislative career, Steinberg has been a strong advocate for mental health care. He has called it “the under-attended issue in our time and in our society.” He is known within the mental health community as a long time champion. [14]

Steinberg became passionate about mental health during his time on the Sacramento City Council. In 1997, the City of Sacramento engaged in a lawsuit against Loaves and Fishes, a private charity providing food to the homeless. The free lunches began to draw thousands of homeless people which had become a nuisance to local business near the shelter in North Sacramento.[15] Former Mayor Joe Serna and then Councilmember Steinberg were the only two members to vote against the lawsuit. Upon further investigation into the rapidly increasing homeless population, Steinberg discovered that an overwhelming portion of homeless suffered from mental illness and did not have access to proper mental health care. He took up the working on ways to help solve this issue.[16]

Personal

Steinberg is married to his wife Julie and has two children.

References

  1. ^ http://ucdavismagazine.ucdavis.edu/issues/sp10/darrell_steinberg.html
  2. ^ http://sd06.senate.ca.gov/biography
  3. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Public-airing-of-private-justice-Assemblyman-2833716.php
  4. ^ http://www.caped.net/convention/keynote.html
  5. ^ http://legix.info/us-ca/measures;2003-04;ab0408/analysis@2003-07-09;committee
  6. ^ http://digital.library.ucla.edu/websites/2004_996_010/darrell/2004/03/the_ab_34_progr.html
  7. ^ http://crywolfproject.org/taxonomy/term/373
  8. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tosco-to-Pay-2-Million-in-Fatal-Flash-Fire-2812382.php
  9. ^ a b c Perata out, Sen. Darrell Steinberg in
  10. ^ a b c d Senate Biography
  11. ^ San Francisco Chronicle Editorial: "How to keep kids in school"
  12. ^ Los Angeles Times: "Chair of state's mental health panel to resign"
  13. ^ San Jose Mercury News Editorial: "State should limit students' work hours"
  14. ^ (http://www.californiahealthline.org/insight/2013/california-budget-puts-some-health-care-issues-on-hold)
  15. ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1997-03-04/news/mn-34618_1_public-nuisance/2
  16. ^ http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/past-present-future/content?oid=5447771
Political offices
Preceded by Sacramento City Council, 6th District
1992–1998 		Succeeded by
Preceded by California State Assembly, 9th District
December 7, 1998 – November 30, 2004
Preceded by California State Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair
2000–2002 		Succeeded by
Preceded by California State Assembly Appropriations Committee Chair
2002–2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by California State Senate, 6th District
December 4, 2006 		Incumbent
Preceded by President pro tempore of the California State Senate
November 30, 2008 		Incumbent

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