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In 2022, with Democrats having a super-majority in both houses of the legislature, corporations have been using this process to challenge the power that unions and other progressive activists currently yield in the legislature. [2]: 1 California Senate Bill 202, passed in 2011, mandated that initiatives and optional referendums can appear only ...
The California State Legislature is the bicameral state ... Each bill that is passed by the Legislature and approved by the Governor is ... Senate President pro ...
1 – Passed – State School Building Aid And Earthquake Reconstruction And Replacement Bond Law. 2 – Passed – Charters For Counties And Cities. 3 – Failed – Postsecondary Education Commission Personnel – Civil Service. 4 – Passed – Regents, University Of California. 5 – Passed – Residence Of Local Government Employee.
Though the bills passed with bipartisan support, they were opposed by many progressive lawmakers, particularly members of the Legislative Black Caucus who don't want to see more people sent to prison.
California lawmakers this week passed some of the nation’s most ambitious legislation aimed at atoning for a legacy of racist policies that drove disparities for Black people, from housing to ...
Reparations activists in California hope their snubbed bills that were shelved in September will be re-introduced by a legislator during the next special session that Gov. Gavin Newsom called in ...
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. [2] Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party, which was conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods in what would later be ...
A climate change law (AB1395) named the California Climate Crisis Act failed to pass, but a similar bill (AB1279) with the same name passed in 2022; California HOME Act (SB9), which creates a legal process by which owners of certain single-family homes can create additional units on their property, and prohibits cities and counties from ...