How much water does $7 billion buy? In so many ways that it almost defies description, California’s lawmakers have relied on flawed logic to justify recently passed laws that will impose punitive urban water rationing. Rather than undertake the Sisyphean...
The Michigan Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that they rejected an attempt to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, in part because of a recent decision in Minnesota as well as the rejection of such an action by Californian...
How many standing committees are there in the State Senate? 22 How many standing committees are there in the State Assembly? 33 Which rules govern the California Legislature’s committee rules? The committees operate under the Joint Rules of the Legislature,...
Multiple Pizza Hut operators throughout California announced on Tuesday that they would be laying off hundreds of drivers before the new state minimum fast food wage of $20/an hour comes into effect on April 1st. The new law, Assembly Bill...
California has a lot of homeless people. California spends a lot of money on homeless people. Well, you get what you pay for. The state will spend $7.2 billion dollars this fiscal year. – that’s about $40,000 per homeless person....
While there are several tips for reading and understanding what a bill in the California Legislature proposes to do, the key is to review the main sections of the bill which contain the substantive changes in the law. There are...
For those not fully acquainted with the California legislative process, new laws (called statutes) are enacted by the California Legislature as bills (and signed by the Governor to become statutes). The Legislature can also amend or repeal existing statutes. Pursuant...