Senator, California State Senate
Portantino represents California’s 25th State Senate District, which stretches along the 210 Freeway from Sunland/Tujunga to Upland. His accomplishments include increasing funding for special education and authoring legislation that created California’s umbilical cord blood collection program, pushed back school start time for middle and high schools, raised the purchase age of firearms to 21 and placed the suicide hotline number on student identification cards. Prior to his years as a representative, he worked in film and television production and served on the California Film Commission.