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What Comes After Reducing Bill Limits?

January 14, 2025 2:30 amJanuary 14, 2025 6:21 am

Now that the bill introduction limits have been reduced in both the Assembly (thank you, Speaker Rivas) and Senate (thank you, PT McGuire), I hope that a few other things might change in the legislative process. First, in light of...

California Bills That Take Immediate Effect

October 20, 2024 8:57 amOctober 20, 2024 8:57 am

In California, statutes generally take effect on January 1 following the year in which they were signed into law (e.g., a bill signed by Governor Newsom in September 2024 usually takes effect on January 1, 2025). However, there are statutes...

How Many Bills Historically Get to the Governor’s Desk?

October 10, 2024 3:45 pmOctober 10, 2024 3:45 pm

Over the past four decades, thousands of bills have reached the Governor’s Desk. The vast majority of those measures get signed into law, with a small percentage being vetoed. The lowest veto rate was just over 1% by Governor Jerry...

Chart of Bill Signing Messages

October 2, 2024 4:34 pmOctober 2, 2024 8:49 pm

In reviewing gubernatorial signing messages over the past two decades, I compiled the following chart of bills that have signing messages. The chart includes the session year, the Governor, the bill number and author, and the subject of the bill....

California Bills: Introduced Versus Enacted

October 1, 2024 1:49 pmOctober 2, 2024 8:51 pm

I am often asked about the number of bills that get introduced each year in comparison to the number of bills that actually get to the Governor’s Desk, and then the number of bills that ultimately get signed into law...

How Many Bills Usually Get to California’s Governor?

October 1, 2024 7:23 amOctober 1, 2024 7:23 am

Now that the 2024 California Legislative Session has concluded, and final bill actions were completed by Governor Gavin Newsom by September 30, which is the constitutional deadline, we can answer the often-posed question about the number of bills that reach...

Additional Categories of Bills Over the Past Few Sessions

September 24, 2024 1:00 pmSeptember 24, 2024 1:01 pm

I have compiled another chart from the past sixteen years of the California Legislature and the number of bills each 2-year Session under 14 categories in comparison to the number of bills introduced that session. In the chart below, I...