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In October 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill (Senate Bill No. 202) which requires all future ballot initiatives to be listed only in general elections (held in November in even-numbered years), rather than during any statewide election. Two propositions had already qualified for the next statewide election (which was the June ...
A law prohibiting the concealed carry of firearms in most public places took effect on January 1, 2024, after the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit paused an injunction District Court for the Central District of California judge Cormac J. Carney implemented in December 2023. [19] The Ninth Circuit ruled on January 7 that the law could not ...
6 – Failed – Criminal Penalties and Laws. Public Safety Funding. Statute. 7 – Failed – Renewable Energy. Statute. 8 – Passed – Amends the California Constitution so that "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
In February 2009 the State Legislature narrowly passed the 2008–2009 state budget during a special session, months after it was due. As part of the plan to lower the state's annual deficits, the State Legislature ordered a special election with various budget reform ballot propositions, among them Proposition 1B.
Changes involving housing laws will come to California in the new year, but not all of them will go into effect at the same time. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills into law in 2023 that will go into ...
Bernard Witkin's Summary of California Law, a legal treatise popular with California judges and lawyers. The Constitution of California is the foremost source of state law. . Legislation is enacted within the California Statutes, which in turn have been codified into the 29 California Co
"California Legislative Publications 1850 – 2009" – via HathiTrust. "California Government: Legislature: Historic Legislation in California". Library Guides. University of California Berkeley Library. "California Legislative History Research". Research Guides. University of California Berkeley School of Law Library.
In 1868, the California Legislature authorized the first of many ad hoc Code Commissions to begin the process of codifying California law. Each Code Commission was a one- or two-year temporary agency which either closed at the end of the authorized period or was reauthorized and rolled over into the next period; thus, in some years there was no ...