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Senator Steven Bradford brought a lifetime of experience to the California Legislature. Bradford was elected to the State Assembly in a Special Election in , reelected in , and again in He garnered national attention by presiding over hearings investigating the devastating power outages across California. In , Bradford was elected to the California State Senate.

During his tenure, Senator Bradford secured millions of dollars to support projects and programs in the district including, Compton Community College, California State University Dominguez Hills, Watts Rising for affordable housing, green space, and local workforce development. He has obtained funding for community-based organizations to provide transformative rehabilitative programs, to support the Charles Drew University, and for the Mental Health Education Practitioner Fund for former foster youth and improving innovative rehabilitation programs at California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation CDCR facilities.

In , Senator Bradford authored and had signed into law the California Cannabis Equity Act, a first-in-the-nation bill that encouraged equitable participation in the cannabis industry and fostered business opportunities for individuals who had been negatively impacted by the War on Drugs. In his continued pursuit to enact policies that provide for equity and fairness, Senator Bradford joint-authored a first-in-the-nation bill with Senator Nancy Skinner that allows college athletes who generate billions of dollars for corporate sponsors and their universities through the use of their name and images, to also benefit from their skills and talents.

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With the approval of this legislation, other states introduced bills to enact the same policy, resulting in the NCAA also supporting the rule change, which allows student-athletes to be paid for the use of their name, image, and likeness NIL. As Chair of the Banking and Financial Institutions Committee, Senator Bradford helped financially empower underserved communities with funding generated from bad actors in the lending industry.

As Chair, Senator Bradford has authored legislation to increase law enforcement transparency and accountability. He authored SB 2, arguably the most significant police reform bill California had seen in a decade. The Kenneth Ross Jr. Police Decertification Act of created the first statewide process to allow for the decertification of police officers who abuse the public trust and commit serious acts of misconduct.

He has also authored legislation that allows children to consult with legal counsel prior to interrogation and before waiving their Miranda rights. Senator Bradford can also be credited with the passage of legislation to assist consumers and businesses in maintaining and recovering during the COVID Pandemic in , including legislation to protect struggling tenants and small landlords by providing eviction relief and foreclosure protection and funding for small business hiring tax credit programs.