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New Bill To Make Statewide By-Mail Ballots Permanent To Be Introduced This Session

November 12, 2020 2:14 amNovember 11, 2020 8:14 pm

Earlier this week, Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-Palo Alto) announced that he will introduce a bill this coming session to require by-mail ballots to go out to voters in every state election. The bill would be a follow up to Governor...

California Voters Don’t Distrust the ‘System;’ It’s Voter Laws Changed by Democrats That Voters Distrust

November 10, 2020 11:25 amNovember 11, 2020 6:11 am

What was once believed to be uncharted territory in national elections has allegedly just occurred in 2020: widespread election fraud in key battleground states. President Donald Trump’s legal team has filed multiple legal challenges in several of these states. California...

Writing Sentences in Legislative Measures

November 9, 2020 6:19 amNovember 9, 2020 11:20 am

With the legislative drafter, compiling sentences for a complete legislative measure takes a good amount of work. Putting these sentences together will give effort to the proposed statute. What form can these sentences take? Well, there are many according to...

Role of Legislative Counsel in Initiatives

November 8, 2020 11:45 amNovember 8, 2020 11:56 am

Many do not realize that the highly trained attorneys in the California Office of Legislative Counsel will draft an initiative for the statewide ballot. Under existing law, attorneys in the Legislative Counsel Bureau will assist in the preparation of an...

California’s Ballot Initiative Transparency Act

November 7, 2020 7:10 amNovember 9, 2020 11:22 am

In 2014, then Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg authored SB 1253, which was enacted in late September as Chapter 697. Section 1 of the bill established the act as the “Ballot Initiative Transparency Act.” Section 2 of the bill...

How Can Prop. 24 Be Amended?

November 7, 2020 2:17 amNovember 9, 2020 11:23 am

Proposition 24, which was adopted by the statewide electorate at the November 3 general election, creates the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). After the enactment of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Legislature has amended...

San Francisco Voters Pass ‘Overpaid Executive Tax’

November 6, 2020 2:57 pmNovember 7, 2020 7:53 am

On Thursday, it was formally announced that San Francisco’s Proposition L passed in San Francisco, raising annual business taxes for companies that do business in the city if executives are paid drastically more than normal employees. Prop L, also known...