Darrell Steven Steinberg (born October 15, 1959) is an American politician and attorney who was the 56th mayor of Sacramento, California from 2016 to 2024.

He authored 80 bills that were signed into law in areas that included mental health, K-12 education, foster care, and workplace safety.

[5] Steinberg authored legislation to focus additional educational resources on high-poverty schools and make them more accountable for improvement.

[8] Steinberg also authored AB 1127, a landmark bill to give stronger prosecutorial power to district attorneys to address serious and willful violations of Cal/OSHA regulations that result in worker injuries and deaths.

In 1997, the City of Sacramento engaged in a lawsuit against Loaves and Fishes, a private charity providing food to the homeless.

The free lunches began to draw thousands of homeless people which had become a nuisance to local business near the shelter in North Sacramento.

[19] During his first year in the State Assembly, Steinberg authored AB 34, which began three pilot projects that provided integrated services to the homeless in Stanislaus, Los Angeles and Sacramento counties.

The pilot was so successful in lowering hospitalization, incarceration and homeless episodes the program was expanded to more than 30 counties in late 2000 as AB 2034.

[21] He co-authored "Prop 63" with advocate Sherman Russell Selix Jr.[22] In the first five years, the program has provided mental health care to 400,000 Californians.

Services can include providing a safe place to live, a job, help in school, physical health care, clothing, food, or treatment when a mental illness and a substances abuse disorder are combined.

These are examples of full service partnerships which have been proven to be effective in helping people with severe mental illness transition successfully to independent living situations.

[25] In 2021, Steinberg backed a legislative proposal that would make Sacramento the first city in California to end zoning that permits only the construction of one single-family home on a property.