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
2008-2010s: Member, California Student Aid Commission

• Supreme Court Decision: In April 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that the federal Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) authorized the federal government to classify and to regulate the dissemination of foreign films that it identified as political propaganda. In this case, the films were three Canadian films (If You Love This Planet, Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery, and Acid From Heaven) that Senator Keene wanted to exhibit without identifying them as foreign political propaganda because identifying it as such "denigrates the material and stigmatizes those conveying it, in a manner that mere designation of the material as `political advocacy' would not." (Meese v. Keene, 85-1180)
• LEGISLATION: Author (with Roberti, Maddy, and Doolittle) of SB 1738 (Chapt. 84, Statutes of 1990) which established what is today known as the “Milton Marks Postgovernment Employment Restrictions Act of 1990” which prohibits former legislators from being "paid to communicate with their former colleagues in the Legislature in an attempt to influence certain actions or proceedings."
• EARTHQUAKE: The epicenter for the 1980 Eureka earthquake (a 7.3 magnitude earthquake on November 8, 1980) occured within the districts of State Senator Barry Keene and Assemblyman Douglas H. Bosco.
   
• 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)