Higher Education, Chair

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

Accountability and Administrative Review

Primary jurisdictions are identifying savings and efficiencies in the management of state government, reviewing and studying the implementation, operation, and effectiveness of state programs and agencies.

Governmental Organization

Primary jurisdictions are public records, open meetings laws, natural disasters (this is shared with the Housing and Community Development Committee and Local Government Committee), tobacco products, and horseracing.

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)

Veterans Affairs

Primary jurisdictions are special programs, benefits and services for California veterans and their families, Veterans Homes of California, CalVet home loans, and the California Military and Veterans Code.

Select Committee on Biotechnology

Select Committee on Community Colleges

Select Committee on Job Creation for the New Economy

Select Committee on Re-Entry

Select Committee on San Diego Trade, Tourism & Job Creation, Chair