{"id":145656,"date":"2026-01-23T02:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145656\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:48:20","slug":"new-leadership-takes-shape-in-the-california-state-senate-california-apartment-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145656\/","title":{"rendered":"New leadership takes shape in the California State Senate \u2022 California Apartment Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2026 is here, and with it are new leaders in the California State Senate. Taking the helm as Senate president pro tempore, Sen. Monique Lim\u00f3n, D-Santa Barbara, was selected for the role on Nov. 17, 2025, replacing President Pro Tempore Emeritus Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, who is now running for Congress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"153\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sd19_limon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74333\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7149846648167081;width:93px;height:auto\"\/>Sen. Monique Lim\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>She was formally sworn in Jan. 5 when the Senate returned to session, becoming the first Latina and first mom to serve as the Senate\u2019s 50th president pro tempore. In December, Lim\u00f3n announced changes to her Senate leadership team by installing Sen. Angelique Ashby, D-Sacramento, as majority leader, Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, as budget chair, and Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside, as appropriations chair.<\/p>\n<p>The new Senate leadership gives the California Apartment Association an improved outlook for the remainder of the legislative session. <\/p>\n<p>Sens. Cervantes and Laird bring a wealth of knowledge and experience and have maintained open lines of communication with the association. Lim\u00f3n also announced a transition in the chair of the Senate Housing Committee by selecting Sen. Jesse Arregu\u00edn, D-Berkeley, to replace Sen. Aisha Wahab, D-Hayward. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Salinas, remains the leader of the Assembly, and CAA welcomes both leadership teams back to Sacramento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 is here, and with it are new leaders in the California State Senate. Taking the helm as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-145656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}