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A Historic Look at Bill Introductions in the California Legislature

February 21, 2026 9:09 amFebruary 21, 2026 9:38 am

Over the past two decades, the California Legislature, and its 120 legislators, introduce between 1,900 and 2,600 bills per year, each year of the 2-year legislative session, by the February introduction deadline. Fewer than 50 additional bills get introduced after...

California Legislative House of Origin Suspense File Details

May 26, 2025 10:11 amMay 26, 2025 10:11 am

Friday, May 23 was the deadline for fiscal committees to act on measures in their house of origin for the 2025 California Legislative Session. This article takes a snapshot of the actions of the two Appropriations Committees by the fiscal...

Ringside: Final Legislative Session is Engineered Chaos

September 21, 2024 9:00 amSeptember 22, 2024 12:33 pm

How legislation is enacted in any democratic institution is inherently chaotic. That’s a feature of democracy, not a defect. It’s part of what separates us from authoritarian regimes where the legislature, such as it is, obediently passes whatever legislation they’re...

The Joint Legislative Ethics Committee

September 13, 2024 1:00 pmSeptember 13, 2024 9:37 pm

Government Code Section 8940 created the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee. The committee consists of three Members of the Senate and three Members of the Assembly who are all selected as provided for in the Joint Rules of the Senate and...

Assembly Republican Leader Gallagher Demands Answers on Undemocratic End of Session

September 9, 2024 2:45 pmSeptember 9, 2024 2:45 pm

Monday, California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (Yuba City) demanded answers from the Assembly Rules Committee in the wake of several parliamentary violations that crushed debate and caused chaos at the end of the 2024 legislative session. As the Globe...

America Should Fear California’s Agenda Now More Than Ever

September 4, 2024 2:55 amSeptember 4, 2024 2:56 am

As Gavin Newsom bows out from the limelight, not on the Democratic party’s presidential ticket, we can refocus attention on the policies under consideration in Sacramento. It’s no secret the supermajority of Democrats in the state legislature, together with Newsom,...

California’s Legislature Has Turned on the People

September 3, 2024 8:44 amSeptember 4, 2024 8:29 pm

Have you ever been stabbed in the back by a friend? You trusted them, supported them, and they turned on you. You never saw it coming. And you ask “what happened?” California’s Supermajority Democrat lawmakers now work against governing the...