California Legislature Archives

CA Globe Contributor Releases New Book on California Legislature and Process

July 23, 2021 9:03 amJuly 26, 2021 8:03 am

California Globe contributor Chris Micheli, an Adjunct Professor at McGeorge School of Law, has just published his second casebook entitled: “The California Legislature and Its’ Legislative Process: Cases and Materials.” This casebook, the first of its kind, explores in depth...

Update from the California Legislature

July 20, 2021 1:37 pmJuly 22, 2021 8:16 am

With the Legislature on its annual summer recess, it is a good opportunity to survey what has been happening with legislation between the two houses. State Budget First, the following is a summary of budget-related legislation so far this Session:...

CA Legislature Should Stop Adopting Administrative Procedure Acts Exemptions

July 13, 2021 4:30 amJuly 12, 2021 10:12 pm

A fundamental purpose of both the federal and California Administrative Procedure Acts (APA) is to allow public participation in the federal and state rulemaking processes. This is where the executive branch of government engages in quasi-legislative activities by adopting rules...

Opinion: This Election Integrity Lawsuit Is the Key to Restoring America

June 29, 2021 9:58 amJune 29, 2021 10:10 am

Election integrity is the paramount issue of our time, for from it flows all the other issues plaguing our nation. Corrupt elections beget illegitimate laws and destroy faith in our system. Without clean elections America will soon pivot from lofty...

California Drought Response: Water Board Cuts Off Water to Thousands of Farms

June 17, 2021 7:01 amJune 17, 2021 7:01 am

The California State Water Resources Control Board announced that thousands of farmers in the Central Valley up to the Oregon Border will have their water curtailed until winter, the Globe reported Wednesday. The order “targets 4,300 ‘junior’ water rights holders...

California House Republicans Urge Natural Resources Committee Action on California Drought

April 28, 2021 3:59 pm

Last week, while standing in a dried out bed on Lake Mendocino, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency… but not for the entire state of California as expected. Newsom only declared a drought emergency for two Northern California counties...

Water and Drought Deceit: More Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate

April 27, 2021 7:47 amApril 27, 2021 9:21 am

Food or Fish, Liberty or Oppression, Victim or Fighter? We Californians have many decisions to make about our future. In Climate Deceit and Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate, we addressed unreliable solar and wind power, and China’s influence...