California Legislature – Page 4

Committee and Code Acronyms in the California Legislature

October 23, 2025 4:45 pmOctober 23, 2025 4:45 pm

While there are numerous acronyms used in the California Legislature and its legislative process, on official websites and elsewhere, there is prolific use of them for California’s Codes, legislative measures, and the Standing Committees of the Assembly and Senate. They...

How Prevalent Are Policy Statements in Statute?

October 23, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 23, 2025 2:01 pm

Readers of bills and statutes will regularly come across statements of legislative intent, such as paragraphs that usually begin with either “It is the intent of the Legislature to …” or “The Legislature finds and declares that …” On other...

Disposition of California Senate Bills

October 18, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 19, 2025 9:22 pm

Over the past seventeen years, I have tracked by each year of the 2-year California Legislative Sessions a series of actions related to bills. The following chart lists those seven actions per session year. The first figure is the number...

Summary of California Bills Per Session and Actions Taken – 2025 Edition

October 15, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 15, 2025 2:01 pm

The following research was updated in October 2025 in order to examine the major actions involving bills in the California Legislature over the few years. I examined the following five categories of information for each year, as set forth in...

2025 Session Governor Bill Signing Messages

October 14, 2025 2:09 pmOctober 14, 2025 2:09 pm

Like governors before him, Governor Gavin Newsom on occasion includes a “signing message” with bills that he has signed. Although only veto messages are specified in the California Constitution, governors have historically used signing messages to express their intent or...

National Pro-Abortion Group Stumping for Prop 50 Redistricting Passage

October 14, 2025 10:53 amOctober 14, 2025 10:58 am

Reproductive Freedom for All, a pro-abortion advocacy group previously called “NARAL,” the National Abortion Rights Action League, is campaigning for passage of Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot initiative to redistrict and flip California’s Republican congressional districts mid-decade. “Our more...

Requiring a Repeal of a Statute

October 13, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 13, 2025 2:01 pm

I came across a bill during the 2025 California Legislative Session that contains the following provision: Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2031. Why does a bill contain this provision? We...