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California Democrats Plan to Starve Proposition 36 to Death

April 3, 2025 3:10 amApril 3, 2025 3:11 am

On November 5, 2024, California voters overwhelmingly adopted Proposition 36, the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, a modest reform to restore consequences for thieves and drug dealers and require treatment for addicts. It’s adoption was a complete rebuke...

Bill to Require Mandatory Refrigerators, Stoves in All CA Rental Units Moves Up In Assembly

April 3, 2025 2:45 amApril 3, 2025 2:46 am

A bill that would require California landlords to have refrigerators and stoves in all rental units recently moved up in the Assembly following amendments that now allow for those appliances to be older than ten years. Assembly Bill 628, authored...

Rebuilding the Pillars of California’s Insurance System

April 2, 2025 2:40 pmApril 2, 2025 2:45 pm

Imagine the Client—the policyholder, the homeowner, the small business owner—as a structure held high upon five great columns. These columns represent the forces that uphold the insurance ecosystem: Insurance Companies, the Department of Insurance, Government at all levels, the Private...

California’s Elected Democrats Have Forsaken the People

April 2, 2025 9:22 amApril 2, 2025 9:22 am

Not one Democrat lawmaker on the California Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports & Tourism Committee voted Tuesday to protect female athletes from trans-women (biological boys) competing in girls’ and women’s sports. The bills were hardly controversial and should not have been...

Casualty Insurance for the Militia

April 2, 2025 2:30 amApril 2, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Military and Veterans Code, in Division 2, Part 1, Chapter 5, Article 3, provides for casualty insurance for the state’s militia. Section 340 states that whenever any officer, warrant officer, or enlisted member of the California National Guard, the...

Bill to Increase Scrutiny for Placement of Sexually Violent Predators Passes First Committee

April 1, 2025 7:05 pmApril 1, 2025 9:06 pm

A bill aimed at increasing public safety scrutiny during the placement of released Sexually Violent Predators (SVP) unanimously passed the Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. Senate Bill 379, authored by Senator Brian Jones (R-San Diego), would require the California...

April Fools Day: Bills to Disallow Trans-Women in Girls Sports Killed by Assembly Committee

April 1, 2025 5:28 pmApril 1, 2025 6:25 pm

It really felt like April Fools Day in the California Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports & Tourism Committee Tuesday morning. Or upside down world. Parents and their female athletes who do not want trans girls/biological boys to compete in girls’ and...