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A Look at 2025 Bill Introductions in the California Legislature

February 22, 2025 10:23 amFebruary 22, 2025 11:40 am

In the first year in which bill introduction limits were reduced to 35 bills per Assembly Member and Senator for the two-year Session, we saw 2,350 bills introduced. Friday, February 21 was the deadline for bill introductions in the 2025...

Reporters in Courts of Justice

February 22, 2025 2:30 amFebruary 22, 2025 2:31 am

CCP Part 1, Title 4, Chapter 3 deals with phonographic reports in courts of justice in this state. Section 269 requires an official reporter or official reporter pro tempore of the superior court to take down in shorthand all testimony,...

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Ballot Amendment for 2026 Bans Involuntary Servitude as Punishment

February 21, 2025 2:06 pmFebruary 21, 2025 2:06 pm

A bill to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2026 to end involuntary servitude as crime punishment was reintroduced this week, as part of the reparations package. Several other reparations bills were also this week. Assembly Constitutional Amendment...

Ringside: Rehydrating the Los Angeles Heat Island

February 21, 2025 7:00 amFebruary 21, 2025 7:07 am

Along with the fairly recent popularization of terms such as atmospheric river and bomb cyclone, we increasingly hear the term “vapor pressure deficit” (VPD). At any given temperature, the term refers to how much moisture is in the air compared...

Asm. Alex Lee’s Ridiculous But Socialistic Legislation

February 21, 2025 3:05 amFebruary 21, 2025 3:06 am

As I write this I am at risk of brain cells dying off. California Assemblyman Alex Lee (D-Palo Alto) has authored another gratuitous (actually stupid) bill. This latest legislation from Assemblyman Lee bans cat declawing. His last stupid bill bans...

New Bill to Grant $5 Million In One-Time-Only Dual Language Immersion Programs

February 21, 2025 2:42 amFebruary 21, 2025 2:43 am

A bill that would would give the Dual Language Immersion Education Instructional Materials Grant Program a one-time appropriation of $5 million to increase the availability of instructional materials in Dual Language Immersion (DLI) programs across California was introduced in the...

Small Claims Court Actions and Parties

February 21, 2025 2:30 amFebruary 21, 2025 2:31 am

In Part 1, Title 1, Chapter 5.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure is the small claims court. Article 3 deals with actions. Section 116.310 provides that no formal pleading, other than the claim, is necessary to initiate a small...