SACRAMENTO – Legislation by Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, to continue California’s medical-aid-in-dying law and not allow it to expire in 2031 passed the Senate on Friday and was sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his consideration.

SACRAMENTO – Legislation by Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, to stop the exploitation of the state’s housing density bonus law on Thursday passed the Senate and was sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his consideration.

SACRAMENTO – Legislation by Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, to extend funding to acquire, restore and enhance wildlife habitats across the state on Tuesday passed the Assembly.

ENCINITAS – Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, and local leaders joined together on Saturday to urge the Encinitas City Council to reject any proposal to remove core safety features along the recently completed $4.1 million western phase of the Santa Fe Drive Corridor Improvements Project.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, issued the following statement about an arrest made by federal law enforcement in Encinitas outside an elementary school that was captured on video and posted on social media.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Aug. 19, 2025) – Today lawmakers joined recyclers, businesses, environmental leaders and community advocates at the Capitol to urge Governor Newsom and CalRecycle to implement Califorina’s landmark plastic pollution and producer responsibility law, SB 54 (Allen, 2022), as written, negotiated and enacted. This comes as CalRecycle prepares its second attempt at formal rulemaking to implement the law.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, has named Algenesis Labs as Senate District 38 Small Business of the Year.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, issued the following statement about plans to redistrict congressional seats in California ahead of next year’s elections.