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Proposition 1, titled Bonds for Mental Health Treatment Facilities, was a California ballot proposition and state bond measure that was voted on in the 2024 primary election on March 5. Passing with just 50.18 percent of the vote, [ 1 ] the proposition will provide additional behavioral health services and issue up to $6.38 billion in bonds to ...
The bill was introduced to the California State Assembly by Assemblymember Shirley Weber in response to the shooting of Stephon Clark and the subsequent decision by the Sacramento County district attorney to treat Clark's death as legally-justifiable. It is the first reform to the state's use of force standard since the standard was first ...
The California Budget and Policy Center released a report estimating that Proposition 36 would increase prison costs, [33] cutting funding for behavioral health services, K-12 school programs for vulnerable youth, and trauma recovery services for crime victims, which have been supported with the savings that come from Prop 47.
The state is again expanding its federally funded mortgage relief program to help more Californians. People who missed mortgage payments up to Aug. 1 are now eligible for help.
The CROWN (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) Act (SB 188) is a California law which prohibits discrimination based on hair style and hair texture by extending protection under the FEHA and the California Education Code. It is the first legislation passed at the state level in the United States to prohibit such discrimination.
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 ...
Many of the laws in the California Health and Safety Code are enforced by CHHS components. On March 6, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom nominated Mark Ghaly to be Secretary of CHHS. [ 2 ] The California State Senate unanimously confirmed Ghaly on June 17, 2019. [ 3 ]
Talk about an apartment retrofit law for San José has been circulating for at least 10 years, and picked up steam after surprise flooding in 2017 exposed how vulnerable the city of 970,000 was to ...