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</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Anthony J. Portantino (Chair)</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://senate.ca.gov/sd36" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Patricia C. Bates (Vice Chair)</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://senate.ca.gov/sd35" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Steven Bradford</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://jones.cssrc.us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Brian W. Jones</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://sd30.senate.ca.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Sydney Kamlager</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://senate.ca.gov/sd17" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Senator John Laird</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><a href="https://senate.ca.gov/sd10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Bob Wieckowski</a></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/">https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/</a></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">S</font><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">enator Anthony Portantino represents California’s 25th State Senate District, which stretches along the 210 Freeway from Sunland/Tujunga to Upland. He proudly represents the Rose Bowl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Griffith Park, Warner Brothers, Disney, Caltech and the Claremont Colleges.</span></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Supporting public education, mental health, and sensible gun control have been priorities for Senator Portantino during his time in office. His accomplishments include increasing funding for special education and the K-12 Local Control Funding Formula. He has authored legislation that created California’s umbilical cord blood collection program, pushed back school start time for middle and high schools, banned the open carry of handguns on Main Street California, raised the purchase age of firearms to 21, and placed the suicide hotline number on student identification cards. In addition, his efforts have created a science fellowship in the State Capitol and established a unique partnership between the University of California and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.</font></span></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He personally negotiated the end of the 710-freeway tunnel with the Brown administration and authored SB 7, which formally ended the threat of the freeway, protected the non-profits in the corridor, and paved the way for Pasadena to develop the dormant freeway stub.</font></span></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Portantino currently serves as the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a Select Committee to foster trade between California, Armenia and Artsakh.</font></span></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to his years as a representative, he spent many years working in film and television production, served on the California Film Commission, and spent nearly eight years on the La Cañada Flintridge City Council, with two terms as Mayor. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Ellis Island Award at a ceremony in the historic island’s great hall.</font></span></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Portantino grew up in New Jersey, where he attended public schools and graduated from Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he met his future wife, Ellen, a longtime business executive at Warner Brothers and Disney. They have two daughters.</font></span></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Awards & Recognitions</font></span></span></span></u></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2022</font></span></span></span></h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Celebrating Children Award – Sycamores</font></span></span></h3></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Champion of Reproductive Freedom Award – Planned Parenthood</font></span></span></h3></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Policy and Legislative Leadership Award – California Mental Health Advocates for Children & Youth...</font></span></span></h3></li></ul><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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