Hundreds of Santa Clarita Valley residents packed Council Chambers at City Hall for a town hall Thursday, featuring Assemblyman Dante Acosta and Senator Scott Wilk. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. About 200 people attended a forum with Acosta, R-Santa Clarita, and Wilk, R-Santa Clarita — talking about everything from water to ...

Disabled-veteran owned businesses (DVBEs) have had a $250,000 cap when bidding for state contracts through a streamlined bidding process, weakening their ability to compete with their big business counterparts. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Now AB 632 from Assemblyman Dante Acosta, R-Santa Clarita, looks to double the streamlined bidding process amount ...

Santa Clarita Valley community members joined in the 12th annual KHTS Sacramento Road Trip on Monday to discuss local issues and opportunities. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The road trip provides participants access to legislators in Sacramento, discussion about what’s going on with respect to lawmakers’ agendas and the discussion taking ...

Dante Acosta was elected in 2016 to represent California’s 38th Assembly District which includes the Santa Clarita Valley, Simi Valley and far northern San Fernando Valley. Before joining the Assembly, Dante served as Mayor Pro Tem on the Santa Clarita City Council. In the private sector, he worked as the General Sales Manager of a car dealership, and in a ...

Assemblyman Dante Acosta, R-Santa Clarita, introduced a bill aimed at lowering health care costs for Californians. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Assembly Bill 782, or the Health Insurance Fairness Act, is an attempt to lower health care costs by increasing the deduction a taxpayer can make due to medical expenses. “California ...

Two of Santa Clarita’s state legislators are teaming up for a town hall Thursday, March 30, they announced this week. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Assemblyman Dante Acosta and Senator Scott Wilk are welcoming constituents to a community forum at Santa Clarita City Hall from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Acosta announced the town hall ...

Assemblyman Dante Acosta, R-Santa Clarita, introduced legislation  that creates a new program to fund school activities and extracurriculars for foster children. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Foster children will get some extra help to cover the costs of activities like field trips, cap and gown costs and other enriching childhood activities. ...

Assemblyman Dante Acosta, R-Santa Clarita, introduced his first bills in the Legislature this week, officials said. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The bills address public safety concerns Acosta has heard from constituents, he said. Some of the bills address voter-created concerns from the law-enforcement community as the changes to the probationary ...

Assemblyman Dante Acosta, R-Santa Clarita, announced his committee appointments including his selection to serve as Vice Chair of the Committee on Natural Resources on Friday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. “I am honored to be selected for a leadership role in a policy committee that is important to the 38th Assembly ...

Assemblyman Dante Acosta, R-Santa Clarita, strongly opposed Gov. Jerry Brown’s naming of Xavier Becerra as attorney general. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Acosta issued a strongly worded statement due to his voting record on veteran votes “The thing that stood out the most were bad votes he made on veterans issues, ...