Chris Micheli – Page 143 – California Globe

Categories of Bills per Legislative Session

September 23, 2024 1:12 pmSeptember 23, 2024 1:12 pm

In reviewing bills over the past sixteen years in the California Legislature, I compiled the following chart which includes some of the common categories of bills. The chart is broken down by session year and number of bills introduced. Thereafter,...

Extended Unemployment Compensation General Provisions

September 23, 2024 2:30 amSeptember 23, 2024 2:31 am

In the California Unemployment Insurance Code, Chapter 1, there are general provisions related to extended unemployment compensation. Section 3501 states that the purpose of this part is to compensate in part for the added wage loss sustained by individuals because...

Chart of Bills in Different Categories

September 22, 2024 1:32 pmSeptember 22, 2024 1:32 pm

In my continuing research regarding legislation and bill drafting in the California Legislature, I created a new chart that contains eleven categories of types of bills going back the last two decades for the 2-year Sessions. The categories include omnibus...

The Buy Clean California Act

September 22, 2024 3:30 amSeptember 22, 2024 3:31 am

California law has the “Buy Clean California Act,” which is contained in the Public Contract Code, Division 2, Part 1, Chapter 3, Article 5. Section 3500 provides the name of the act. Section 3501 defines the following terms: “awarding authority,”...

Chart of 72-Hour Bills in the California Legislature

September 21, 2024 5:58 pmSeptember 21, 2024 10:12 pm

Since the voters of California adopted Proposition 54 at the November 2016 General Elections, bills in the California Legislature must be “in print” and available on the Internet in their “final form” for at least 72 hours before a Floor...

Number of California Bills by Code

September 21, 2024 1:00 pmSeptember 21, 2024 1:01 pm

I have often wondered about the number of bills in the California Legislature each year that affect the twenty-nine different codes. California’s 29 Codes, beginning with the Business & Professions Code and ending with the Welfare & Institutions Code, contain...

California Courts of Appeal

September 21, 2024 2:30 amSeptember 21, 2024 2:31 am

Section 69100 provides that the state is divided into six court of appeal districts designated as follows: The Counties of San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, Contra Costa, Alameda, and San Mateo shall constitute the...