About Lloyd
A life long resident of the San Fernando Valley, Lloyd Levine, 38, has worked hard fighting to improve the quality of life for residents of Southern California and California at large. From founding a local chapter of Students Against Drunk Driving while in high school and coaching youth sports to authoring groundbreaking legislation, Lloyd has always tried to make a difference for all Californians.
In 2002, Lloyd was elected to the California State Assembly to represent the over 400,000 residents of District 40. In Sacramento, he serves as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce and is part of Speaker Fabian Nuñez’s leadership team. Besides chairing the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee, Lloyd is a member of the Aging and Long–Term Care, Judiciary, Governmental Organization, and Elections and Redistricting Committees.
During his first term in the Legislature, Assemblymember Levine successfully carried legislation to secure $1 billion in funding for special education programs. He has since used his influence to help ease traffic congestion in Southern California by fighting to improve the 405⁄101 interchange, as well as supporting the Metro Orange Line that has linked the San Fernando Valley to the Metro mass transit system of Los Angeles.
Assemblymember Levine has been a champion of the environment, playing a vital role in five measures that were authored to protect our environment by limiting greenhouse gas emissions, promoting energy efficiency, and investing in renewable resources. Included in that legislation was Senate Bill 1 – the California Solar Initiative. The bill places 3,000 megawatts of solar electricity in California over the next 10 years – an effort which will directly lead to a three million ton reduction in greenhouse gases.
In addition to energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions, Assemblymember Levine has been one of the Legislature’s strongest advocates for recycling measures. In 2004, Lloyd successfully authored legislation to create a comprehensive, statewide tire recycling program. In 2005, Lloyd was again successful with his mercury recycling program. Leading the negotiations between automobile manufactures, automobile dismantlers, the environmental community and the Department of Toxic Substance Control, Lloyd was able to implement a program which is responsible for taking thousands of pounds of mercury out of the environment each year. Then in 2006, Lloyd authored Assembly Bill 2449 which created the nation’s first statewide plastic bag recycling program to help remove millions of plastic grocery bags from the environment each year.
In addition, he has worked on bills designed to crack down on lost and stolen guns, to provide a safe place to learn for all California students, to protect our environment, to cut down on pet overpopulation in California, to provide tax credits for fit businesses, to fight for better end–of–life choices for terminally-ill Californians, and to ban the sale of general service incandescent light bulbs in California.
While Lloyd is committed to tackling transportation, education and public safety policy, he has a deep passion for health and physical fitness. As a child, Levine suffered from severe asthma these symptoms were only managed through the help of an inhaler and distance running. He has participated in races as short as 1–mile to ultra marathon 50-mile races. Levine has turned his passion for health into a crusade to stop the obesity epidemic that is overcoming children and adults in California. He has carried legislation to help clinics treat obesity-related diabetes and asthma, and to help make sure student food is nutritious. He is also one of two Legislators on the California Taskforce for Youth and Workplace Wellness.
In 2004, Lloyd created the Assemblymember Lloyd Levine Fit & Fun Challenge in which schools compete to bring out the most students, families and teachers to walk, run, bike or skate a five kilometer course. While Lloyd knows that one day of exercise will not stop the epidemic, he believes that kids need to learn that fitness can be fun.
This year Lloyd qualified for and ran in the 111th Boston Marathon, one of the oldest and most prestigious road races in the United States.