Standing Committees:

Chair, Elections

Primary jurisdictions are elections and redistricting.

Member, Higher Education

Primary jurisdictions are university, state university, and community college systems, postsecondary education, and student financial aid.

Member, Utilities and Commerce

Primary jurisdictions are public utilities; the California Public Utilities Commission; the California Energy Commission; the California Independent System Operator; Electricity Oversite Board; energy companies; common carriers; electricity; alternative energy development and conservation; natural gas; wireless, wireline and cable communications; international trade; Women and Minority Business Enterprises; and tourism.

Member, Water, Parks, and Wildlife

Primary jurisdictions are water resources, flood management, fish and game, parks and recreation, and wildlife.

Member, Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy

Primary jurisdictions are business advocacy within California and the United States; business advocacy of import/export trade; California-Mexico relations; California overseas trade offices; Department of Information Technology; development and expansion of new technologies, except energy; development of international high tech markets; economic disaster relief; economic impact reports; effect of balance of trade issues on California; enterprise zones; expansion of overseas markets; foreign investments by California; foreign investments in California; impacts of federal budget on high tech projects; impacts of federal budget on international trade; information technology; industrial innovation and research; international capital, including capital formation; international trade, research and import/export finance; interstate commerce; seaports and physical infrastructure; sister state agreements and friendship agreements with other nations; small business development and operations; state and local economic development; women and minority business enterprises (WBME).

Select Committees:

Chair, High Technology

Member, Biotechnology

Member, Government Efficiency, Technology and Innovation

Member, Homelessness

Member, Human Rights, Diversity and Race Relations

Member, Privacy