California Legislature – Page 8

Time to Complete Discovery

September 12, 2025 2:32 amSeptember 12, 2025 2:33 am

California’s Code of Civil Procedure, Part 4, Title 4, Chapter 8 deals with the time for completion of discovery in civil cases. Section 2024.010 provides that discovery is considered completed on the day a response is due or on the...

Bills on Consent in the California Legislature

September 11, 2025 2:00 pmSeptember 11, 2025 2:01 pm

What is the Consent Calendar and how do legislative measures get placed on consent? Joint Rule 22.1 deals with the “Consent Calendar: Uncontested Bills” and provides that each standing committee may report an uncontested bill out of committee with the...

California Legislature’s ‘Gut and Amend’ is ‘Bait and Switch’, This Time Trying to Destroy Charter Schools

September 10, 2025 4:32 pmSeptember 10, 2025 5:56 pm

UPDATE below: The “gut and amend” bills in the California Legislature are nothing more than a legislative bait-and-switch. “Gutting and amending” unrelated bills into controversial legislation prevents Californians the time guaranteed by law to review and deliberate. We recently saw...

Retroactive v. Prospective Legislation in California

September 9, 2025 2:55 pmSeptember 9, 2025 2:55 pm

In most instances, legislation applies prospectively, meaning after the law has been enacted and takes effect. Nonetheless, there are times when the Legislature desires statutes to be applied retroactively, and sometimes they also specify a prospective application date. The following...

How the Legislature Complies with Proposition 54’s 72-Hour Rule

September 6, 2025 2:00 pmSeptember 6, 2025 2:07 pm

Proposition 54, which was enacted by the voters at the November 2016 general election, adopted constitutional and statutory changes dealing with bill amendments and recordings of legislative proceedings. Among those provisions, how does the California Legislature comply with Prop. 54’s...

California Democrats Consider Increasing $16 Billion in Annual Taxes and Fees

September 4, 2025 5:12 pmSeptember 5, 2025 10:17 am

The saying, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging” does not seemingly apply to Democrats in the California legislature. Evidently, the solution to the tax-and-spend Democratic supermajority is: “When you’re in a hole, keep digging…and raise taxes.” A report published...

San Diego’s Students Sacrificed in the Charter Lawsuit

September 3, 2025 4:51 pmSeptember 3, 2025 4:51 pm

In 2015, San Diego Unified and Grossmont Union High School District decided the best use of their time and taxpayer dollars was not more books, more student resources, or higher teacher pay — but a lawsuit. Their target was charter...