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California House and Assembly Suspend Session For a Month

March 18, 2020 1:46 pmMarch 19, 2020 11:16 am

Shortly after both houses of the California legislature voted on and passed over $1 billion of bills and measures to thwart the coronavirus and economic and social damage caused by the coronavirus in the state on Tuesday, the legislature voted...

SB 50 Voted Down in Senate, Falls Short of Votes Twice in Two Days

January 30, 2020 2:09 pmJanuary 31, 2020 9:02 am

The California Senate failed to pass the zoning law altering Senate Bill 50, falling three votes short of the 21 needed. Three votes short of passage SB 50, authored and introduced by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would have forced...

California Senate To Convene Oversight Hearing On Public Safety Power Outage Issues

October 31, 2019 4:26 pmOctober 31, 2019 4:27 pm

After an unprecedented month of planned power outages across California affecting millions of people and hurting those in need of electricity the most, the California Senate has announced an oversight hearing on the issue. The Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications...

Assemblyman Todd Gloria’s Calculated Flip-Flopping Revealed in Two Bills

October 19, 2019 7:30 amOctober 20, 2019 4:15 pm

The signing of Assembly Bill 1413 and Assembly Bill 1290 into law has shown that Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) has only authored some bills to increase his chances of winning the San Diego mayoral election in March. In a 2016...

Senate President Toni Atkins calls for more Humanitarian Action at Southern Border

December 18, 2018 4:37 pmDecember 18, 2018 4:58 pm

In an effort to increase a “coordinated action to address the humanitarian crisis at the San Diego-Tijuana border,” today Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) has called on several officials in Tijuana and San Diego to help find...