California State Assembly. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for California Globe)
A Look at California Legislation Through the House of Origin Deadline
Total number of bills introduced in 2023 Legislative Session: 2,661
By Chris Micheli, June 2, 2023 2:06 pm
Now that the June 2 House of Origin deadline has passed in the California Legislature, I wanted to look at the actions on bills so far in the 2023 Regular Session. The following is the information by house (any errors are mine):
State Senate
Total number of bills introduced in 2023 Session: 891
Total number of SBs that passed house of origin: 658 (74% of the total introduced)
Total number of SBs that failed passage on the Floor: 2 (0.2% of the total introduced; 0.3% of the total that reached the Floor)
Total number of SBs that did not reach the Floor: 226 (25% of the total introduced)
Total number of SBs chaptered: 1
Total number of SBs vetoed: 0
Total number of SBs on the Inactive File: 5 (0.8% of the total that reached the Floor)
Total number of Special Session SBs passed: 1
Total number of Special Session SBs chaptered: 1
State Assembly
Total number of bills introduced in 2023 Session: 1,770
Total number of ABs that passed house of origin: 1,055 (60% of the total introduced)
Total number of ABs that failed passage on the Floor: 1 (0.05% of the total introduced; 0.09% of the total that reached the Floor)
Total number of ABs that did not reach the Floor: 702 (40% of the total introduced)
Total number of ABs chaptered: 8
Total number of ABs vetoed: 0
Total number of ABs on the Inactive File: 12 (1% of the total that reached the Floor)
After the Legislature adjourns in mid-September, I will update this information to reflect the entire 2023 California Legislative Session.
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Wow, that’s a lot of legislation? How much of this legislation reduced the personal liberty of Californian citizens while increasing their taxes and enriching politicians in the legislature? How much of this legislation was promulgated by Democrats?
A lot of this legislation reduces personal freedom. And that’s the problem. Progressive legislators rate their performance by how many bills they pass. So the incentive is to pass as many new laws as possible because that makes you a “success”.
It is no wonder that CA has all the problems it’s does.