Press Releases

SB 1301 and SB 1209 Sent to Governor to Improve Ratepayer Protections

SACRAMENTO – Senator Ben Allen (D-Pacific Palisades) advanced a pair of policies out of the Legislature to protect ratepayers from unnecessarily losing their insurance coverage or falling victim to bad business practices.




Senator Allen Seeks to Establish Low-Interest Loans for Home Hardening Renovations

SACRAMENTO – Few policy priorities go hand-in-hand like resilience and affordability. The benefits of increasing fire resilience, through thoughtful structural and community design, ripple beyond protecting homes and saving lives. These improvements simultaneously expand access to better, more affordable insurance policies and save public resources, infrastructure, and tax dollars.




SACRAMENTO – Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) celebrated the federal court decision upholding Oregon’s right to enforce its packaging recycling law.




AB/SB 186 will mitigate the impact of SB 122 to maintain a competitive

Film & Television Tax Credit Program in California




LOS ANGELES – Senator Ben Allen (D-Pacific Palisades) praised FEMA’s approval to extend housing support through July 2027 as fire survivors across Los Angeles continue to recover and work towards returning home.




SACRAMENTO – Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) released the following statement responding to a lawsuit against SB 54 filed by 17 attorneys general and the National Association of Wholesale-Distributors.




LOS ANGELES – Senator Ben Allen provided the following statement in response to the toxic smoke released from the Boyle Heights Fire.




Senator Allen Helps Secure Funding for Transformational City Park

SANTA MONICA – The Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) is set to receive a $10 million Proposition 4 Climate Bond grant from the State of California to advance the State and City’s collective goal of improving access to nature, parks, and the outdoors.