Barry Keene

CA Blue Book

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-03-1970	Democratic	AD-02	41730	Loss
11-07-1972	Democratic	AD-02	59352	Win
11-05-1974	Democratic	AD-02	62208	Win
11-02-1976	Democratic	AD-02	74626	Win
11-07-1978	Democratic	SD-02	110899	Win
11-02-1982	Democratic	SD-02	122176	Win
11-04-1986	Democratic	SD-02	115756	Win
11-06-1990	Democratic	SD-02	126552	Win

Candidate Biography:

Barry Dion Keene
Born: July 30, 1938 in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Married: Luciemarie
Children: Sue, Joe, Tony, Patty, and Nancy

Previous: Assembly Fellow, Criminal Procedure Committee
1965-1968: Staff Attorney, California Constitutional Revision Commission
1968-19??: Deputy District Attorney, Sonoma County
1983-1985: Member, California Judicial Council
1985-1992: Majority Leader, California State Senate
1992: Resigned from the State Senate on December 15.
2000-2002: Director, California Department of General Services
2008-Present: Member, California Student Aid Commission

• LEGISLATION: Author of Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (1967), which required official meetings of state boards and commissions to follow rules similar to those of the Brown Act. 
• LEGISLATION: Authored the Keene Act, the first comprehensive medical malpractice statute.
• LEGISLATION: Author of the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1990.
• LEGISLATION: Author, Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, which provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care.

Source: California Blue Book (1975)
Source: "The Judicial Council of California: Membership" by the Judicial Council of California (accessed 5/30/2012)

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