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$1.4 Million Budget Provision To Study, Document Asian American Hate Crimes Passes Legislature

February 24, 2021 2:17 amFebruary 25, 2021 1:48 pm

On Monday, both the Assembly and the Senate passed a bill that would, in part, provide $1.4 million in funding to study hate crimes committed against Asian Americans during the pandemic. Assembly Bill 85, authored by the Assembly Budget Committee,...

Should Last Summer’s Business Tax Hikes Be Curtailed?

January 11, 2021 12:16 pmJanuary 11, 2021 12:19 pm

Last June, the California Legislature passed the Governor’s proposals from his May Revise to raise $9 billion over three years by retroactively suspending the use of net operating losses (NOLs) for individuals and businesses, as well as retroactively capping the...

CalEPA and California Air Board Exempted In Budget From Open Meetings Law – Again

June 17, 2019 7:41 amJune 18, 2019 8:13 am

The Omnibus Resources Trailer Bill for 2019-20, contains various statutory changes “necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2019.” Yet it contains language exempting a commission of the California Air Resources Board and CalEPA from the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act,...