SACRAMENTO – Today, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego), joined by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, the state’s first openly LGBTQ+ statewide elected official, and Equality California, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, announced he would amend SB 990 to include language to direct the Office of Emergency Services to specifically establish what best practices state and local governments are to use when addressing the needs of the LGBTQ+ community after a disaster.