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Bill to Raise Minimum Age to Sit in Car Front Seat Moves Through Assembly

April 11, 2025 6:13 pmApril 11, 2025 6:13 pm

A bill that would raise the minimum age to sit in the front seat of a car to the age of 13 continued to move forward this week despite significant opposition against it. Assembly Bill 435, authored by Assemblywoman Lori...

California’s Pharmacy Board Is Actively Endangering Californians: A Patient’s Perspective

November 1, 2024 2:55 amNovember 1, 2024 11:22 am

In 2019, Governor Newsom signed a bill (Assembly Bill 973) into law that opened the floodgates for the California State Board of Pharmacy (BOP) to regulate compounding pharmacies out of existence—particularly the highly specialized sterile compounding pharmacies, of which only...

Senate Democrats Kill Chance to End California’s 700-day COVID State of Emergency

March 15, 2022 12:36 pm

SCR 5 is a resolution authored by Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), seeking to end Governor Gavin Newsom’s declared COVID-based State of Emergency, which has continued uninterrupted for 700 days – two years. Originally written nine months after the governor’s...

Governor Newsom Rolls Back Majority of COVID-19 Executive Order Provisions

February 26, 2022 2:19 amFebruary 25, 2022 7:20 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Friday that he would be removing most of the remaining COVID-19 Executive Order provisions, while keeping 30 executive actions in place as well as the COVID-19 state of emergency. Before Friday, a total of 15%...

Is There a Doctor in The House?

January 30, 2022 2:04 amJanuary 31, 2022 10:33 am

Consider that the better question may be, “Is there a decent doctor in the house?” The Medical Board of California has recently asked the State Legislature to amp up the ability to discipline doctors who have run afoul of the...

Senate Democrats Kill Sen. Moorlach’s Proposal to Include California in a 34-State Nursing Compact

May 18, 2020 4:51 pmMay 18, 2020 4:51 pm

The Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee Monday killed Senate Bills 1053 and 1054, authored by Senator John M. W. Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa), which would have increased access to medical care providers by allowing for multi-state licensing for nurses...