Sen. Ed Hernandez

Co-sponsor ACR 120

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Read Across America Day.

This measure would recognize March 2, 2010, as "Read Across America Day."

Signed into law Aug 17, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 117

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Rare Disease Day.

This measure would proclaim February 28, 2010, as Rare Disease Day.

Signed into law Aug 17, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 88

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Education.

This measure would establish, until January 1, 2014, the California Task Force on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education for the purpose of promoting the improvement of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology education across the state. The task force would consist of Members of the Legislature and experts appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Committee on Rules. The task force would conduct its business on a volunteer basis, be able to accept private funds, and would submit an annual report on its work to the Legislature.

Signed into law Aug 17, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor AJR 42

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to the Medicare Secondary Payer Enhancement Act of 2010.

This measure would request that the Congress and the President of the United States enact the Medicare Secondary Payer Enhancement Act of 2010.

Signed into law Aug 17, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SCR 47

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Education funding: child development centers and preschools.

This measure would state the intent of the Legislature to increase the funding of child development centers and preschools in future years, as resources become available, in order to provide staff with adequate salaries and benefits, provide adequate resources to support program quality for children, and keep programs open to serve parents and children.

Signed into law Aug 11, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 116

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to California Lab Day.

This measure would proclaim May 12, 2010, as California Lab Day.

Signed into law Aug 10, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 162

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Disability History Week.

This measure would designate the 2nd week of October 2010, and annually thereafter, as Disability History Week, and would encourage public and private institutions of higher education, state and local agencies, nonprofit and community-based organizations, and private businesses and corporations to observe Disability History Week by dedicating appropriate classroom instructional time or by coordinating all-inclusive activities to be conducted during that week to afford opportunities for students and the general public to learn more about the disability community and to celebrate and honor its role in contemporary American society.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 166

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Spirit of '45 Day.

This measure would declare the Legislature's support for the observance of "Spirit of '45 Day" on the second Sunday in August to commemorate the anniversary of the end of World War II on August 14, 1945.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 150

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to African American Mental Health Awareness Week.

This measure would recognize each 2nd week of February hereafter as African American Mental Health Awareness Week.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor AJR 39

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to common state education standards.

This measure would call upon the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to develop common core state standards in the core academic disciplines of English-language arts, mathematics, history-social science, and science, request that they replicate the process used to develop English-language arts and mathematics common core state standards to now develop common core state standards for social studies and science, and examine the viability of developing common standards in foreign language, visual and performing arts, physical education, career technical education, and other subject areas.

Signed into law Jul 7, 2010 1 co-sponsor