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Proposition 25, officially the Referendum to Overturn a 2018 Law That Replaced Money Bail System with A System Based on Public Safety Risk, is a California ballot proposition that appeared on the ballot for the general election on November 3, 2020. [1] The "no" side prevailed, resulting in retention of the system of cash bail in the state. [2]
The Affordable Housing on Faith and Higher Education Lands Act (Senate Bill 4) is a 2023 California statute which makes it legal for faith-based institutions and non-profit colleges to build affordable, multi-family homes on lands they own by streamlining the permitting process and overriding local zoning restrictions.
The bill was passed by both houses by August 30, 2022, and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 22, 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Taking effect on January 1, 2023, California became the second state after Oregon to eliminate parking minimums near public transit.
Low-income Californians would have an easier time purchasing hormonal birth control pills at their local pharmacy under a new bill. The bill, which was recently introduced to the California State ...
The tax would raise an estimated $500 million annually.
Hundreds of thousands of health care workers in California are set to earn a new minimum wage of $25 an hour. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday night that he signed Senate Bill 525, which ...
The Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, or SB 1047, is a 2024 California bill intended to "mitigate the risk of catastrophic harms from AI models so advanced that they are not yet known to exist". [1]
The bill was a priority of animal advocacy group Social Compassion in Legislation, whose founder, Judie Mancuso, said in a statement that “by signing this bill, California is taking a stand that ...