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California State Government Organization Archived 2010-10-06 at the Wayback Machine - Chart showing a hierarchy of the above departments and commissions California State Agency Databases Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine - Comprehensive list of state agencies and databases maintained by the American Library Association
Scholarshare Investment Board; California Science Center; Sierra Nevada Conservancy; California Department of Social Services; California Space Authority; California State Board of Education; California State Lands Commission; California State Library; California Strawberry Commission; California Office of Systems Integration
The Commission on Charter Schools helps administer the State Board's oversight of California charter schools. [6] The Commission on Special Education provides advice to the Governor, the State Superintendent, the State Legislature , and the State Board of Education on continuing or new areas of research, program development, and evaluation in ...
These individuals (in the case of the Board of Equalization, its members) are specifically denominated by article V, section 14 and article III, section 8, of the Constitution as 'state officers', are generally elected, are restricted from receiving money from certain sources and have their salaries determined by the California Citizen's Compensation Commission.
The speaker of the California State Assembly presides over the State Assembly. The lieutenant governor is the ex officio president of the Senate and may break a tied vote, and the president pro tempore of the California State Senate is elected by the majority party caucus. The Legislature meets in the California State Capitol in Sacramento.
In California, councils of governments are voluntary organizations of local governments within a specific region. They are organized as joint powers authorities and funded by dues from their member governments. [1] They play a number of official roles in state governmental processes such as developing regional housing need allocations (RHNAs).
In 1979, then-Governor Jerry Brown requested a report on the State's personnel system from the Little Hoover Commission, an independent government oversight agency, which resulted in several recommendations of which some were implemented, including the creation of the Department of Personnel Administration but other recommendations such as the dissolution of the California State Personnel ...
In 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed to eliminate the CIWMB as well as 87 other state boards and commissions. [2] California state senator Tony Strickland introduced Senate Bill (SB) 63 in January 2009 to dissolve the CIWMB; Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 63 into law in July 2009. [3] The California Integrated Waste ...