Press Releases

SACRAMENTO, CA – As President Trump asks the Supreme Court to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA), and as it’s more in peril than ever following Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate Bill 406 by Dr. Richard Pan, which includes putting two Affordable Care Act (ACA) patient protections into state law, was signed by the Governor.

SACRAMENTO— Senate Bill 852, authored by Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and state senator representing the Sacramento area, was signed into law today by Governor Newsom.

Sacramento, CA – While an increasing number of public health officials receive threats to their safety and that of their family, and as eight public health officials in California have resigned or retired since mid-April, Dr. Richard Pan, pediatrician and State Senator, introduced SB 483 to keep the personal information of health officers confidential. 

Sacramento, CA – Dr. Richard Pan, pediatrician and State Senator representing the Sacramento region and Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) introduced SB 275 today to ensure California is ready on day one of a pandemic or other public health crises with a strong stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE) so our healthcare and other essential workers that we depend on don’t go unprotected like they did during the current pandemic.