• The 2022-2023 California Budget is here and we need your voice! (piqe.org)
  • On Monday, January 10, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom introduced his proposal for the 2022-2023 California budget, called the "California Blueprint. (piqe.org)
  • Through the final months of the 2023-24 budget process, California's Legislature will make numerous important decisions regarding the allocation of state resources in the context of a budget problem. (ca.gov)
  • Should the CPRA pass into law, it is likely that the California legislature will have to independently address the issue of employee and B2B information prior to when most of the law's substantive provisions go into effect and when the current exemptions expire (which is January 1, 2023, for both). (wilmerhale.com)
  • WEDNESDAY, Sept. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) - California is on track to become the first state to ban four food additives that some experts have linked to health issues ranging from behavioral problems in children to reproductive issues to cancer in lab animals. (physiciansweekly.com)
  • SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Legislature on Thursday voted to expand paid sick leave for about 10.4 million workers, sending a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom that mandates up to two weeks of paid time off for things like having coronavirus symptoms, scheduling a COVID-19 vaccine or caring for a child who is doing school at home. (ktvu.com)
  • SACRAMENTO - Legislation sponsored by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to modernize California's motor voter registration system was approved by the State Legislature today. (ca.gov)
  • SACRAMENTO - Today, the California State Legislature passed two key bills to modernize the State's behavioral health care system and better address today's needs. (ca.gov)
  • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - There's plenty of drama in legislative races coming to a head Tuesday between Democrats and Republicans, and even between members of the same party competing under California rules that advance the top vote-getters from the June primary election regardless of their political allegiance. (kvpr.org)
  • SACRAMENTO - The Armenian National Committee of America - Western Region and several local chapters, including representatives from Pasadena, San Francisco, and Sacramento, attended the California State Assembly and State Senate sessions commemorating the 108th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on April 24. (asbarez.com)
  • She and daughter Sofia fly into Sacramento on Sundays and back out again to Southern California on Thursday evenings. (emergeamerica.org)
  • If you are in Southern California or the Central Valley and you will have to be in Sacramento for three or four days a week, you have a decision to make. (emergeamerica.org)
  • SACRAMENTO January 3, 2017 - Following the resignation of California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. officially submitted U.S. Congressman Xavier Becerra's (D-CA) nomination for California Attorney General to the State Legislature today. (yubanet.com)
  • While economists see the state's unaffordably high housing prices as a straightforward case of supply failing to keep pace with demand, many housing advocates (and their political allies in Sacramento) remain convinced that California is facing a shortage only of subsidized "affordable" homes-housing built using public resources and rented at below-market rates to low-income households without the means to live anywhere else. (cafwd.org)
  • One of the California Reparation Task Force Committee's 115 recommendations to disseminate forms of restitution to those eligible has been introduced by the state's Legislature. (yahoo.com)
  • This is a continuation of his work with the state's task force, which began in 2020 when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 3121, authored by then-Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, to explore how California might compensate for harms and wrongdoings caused by enslavement and racial discrimination. (yahoo.com)
  • While California has gotten billions of dollars in federal coronavirus aid in the past year, the state's Democratic-controlled Legislature has been providing its own economic stimulus in recent weeks. (ktvu.com)
  • At a time when California is flush with cash, policymakers should not ask employers to become the state's social safety net,' said Jennifer Barrera, executive vice president of the California Chamber of Commerce, who opposed the bill. (ktvu.com)
  • The California Supreme Court heard the Gerawan case last fall on whether the state's attempting to force mandatory agricultural labor union contracts violates the constitutional safeguard of equal protection. (flashreport.org)
  • California nonprofit colleges and faith organizations such as churches, mosques and synagogues would be able to build affordable homes on their land under a bill introduced Tuesday to help alleviate the state's worsening housing shortage and homelessness crisis. (nonprofithousing.org)
  • California citizens who are identified as eligible voters when visiting the DMV to apply for, renew, or change their address on a driver's license would be registered to vote by the Secretary of State's office. (ca.gov)
  • Last week, California's Legislature approved two bills that would expand indigent health care services by extending the state's federal Medi-Cal waiver for five years, Capitol Public Radio's " KXJZ News " reports. (californiahealthline.org)
  • But the California Chamber of Commerce says the bill would hurt the state's brick-and-mortar businesses. (capradio.org)
  • AB 1299 will benefit the state's public housing residents by helping them obtain affordable broadband at home, and provide training on how to access treatment and insurance information, including coverage subsidies through Covered California, the state's health benefit exchange. (cetfund.org)
  • The state's licensing entities - the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California - are involved in the bill, so it's assumed that license suspension or revocation could be in play. (medscape.com)
  • The California Senate recently introduced a bill, California SB 378, which would impose a California gift, estate and generation skipping transfer tax beginning on 1 January 2021 on all gratuitous transfers during the life and upon death of a California resident. (lexology.com)
  • I'm grateful to my colleagues in the legislature for standing up for workers and businesses at this time of rising workplace violence," Senator Cortese stated in the news release about SB 553, which was initially prompted by a 2021 workplace violence incident at a railyard in Senator Cortese's legislative district of San Jose, California. (esrcheck.com)
  • On September 5, 2021, the Legislature released a series of budget trailer bills as part of their end-of-session clean-up process. (casbo.org)
  • As was expected, the California legislature voted to extend the employee and business-to-business (B2B) exemptions in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) (that are currently set to expire on January 1, 2021) to January 1, 2022 (depending on whether the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is voted into law). (wilmerhale.com)
  • År 2021 införde EU en villkorlighets- mekanism, som ger EU:s institutioner befogenhet att hålla inne budgetåtagan- den till medlemsländer som inte respekterar rättsstatens principer. (lu.se)
  • After 10 bills over eight years failed to legalize Internet poker in California, the latest plan also died Wednesday in the Legislature amid continued squabbling by competing factions of the gambling industry. (latimes.com)
  • With the passage of these two bills, California voters will now have the opportunity in March 2024 to vote to modernize our mental health system. (ca.gov)
  • Several controversial bills aiming to cut emissions and help California transition to renewable energy were among top priorities debated by the Legislature Wednesday. (citywatchla.com)
  • Instead of the usual simple majority vote required of most bills to pass, an urgency clause statute requires a super-majority vote on both floors of the California Legislature. (capitolweekly.net)
  • In a flurry of legislative activity, the California legislature passed a number of last-minute privacy bills that now await the signature of Governor Gavin Newsom in order to go into effect. (wilmerhale.com)
  • More surprisingly, the California legislature also passed bills regulating health privacy and genetic privacy. (wilmerhale.com)
  • Each year, the California State Legislature introduces legislation to stop and prevent wage theft because we know workers have a right to fair compensation. (yahoo.com)
  • The bill was the final piece of legislation taken up before the Legislature adjourned, and it received a quick bipartisan vote in both houses within a span of only a few minutes. (latimes.com)
  • If the proposed legislation is successfully enacted, California would join ranks with twelve states that currently impose a state estate or inheritance tax, and just one other state (Connecticut) that imposes a gift tax. (lexology.com)
  • When the California Legislature passes "resolutions" - as distinct from actual legislation, it is a meaningless exercise. (hjta.org)
  • SJR21 correctly points out that while "Californians are struggling with the rising costs of living due to high personal income tax rates and high housing rates due to burdensome regulations … the Republicans in Congress and the President have passed and signed significant tax reform legislation to ease the pain inflicted on California taxpayers. (hjta.org)
  • The California Senate on Wednesday approved legislation requiring that police officers be trained in ways to avoid using lethal force. (policemag.com)
  • The bill is one of two pieces of legislation addressing police use of force in California. (policemag.com)
  • California's next wave of privacy legislation, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), expands the freshly enacted California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). (orrick.com)
  • The North Carolina legislature can protect the health and well-being of North Carolina youth by passing new legislation that is concordant with youth preferences regarding smoke-free policies. (cdc.gov)
  • An unusually high number of California lawmakers will be gone after the Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, election. (kvpr.org)
  • The California legislature passed AB 1281 , which extends the current versions of the employee and B2B exemptions in the CCPA until January 1, 2022, unless Californians vote in favor of passing the CPRA on November 3. (wilmerhale.com)
  • California lawmakers are not only bulldozing classic liberal education, they are legislating more LGBT lifestyle and pornographic perversion in education curricula. (flashreport.org)
  • San Francisco Chronicle: California lawmakers just voted to make it easier to add housing. (nonprofithousing.org)
  • In a major win for California housing development advocates, state lawmakers signed off Monday on a series of reforms that supporters say could clear the way to build hundreds of thousands of of new homes statewide by significantly easing permitting requirements. (nonprofithousing.org)
  • Lawmakers in California have positioned their state to become the first in the nation to ban stores from giving customers disposable plastic grocery bags. (allgov.com)
  • Lawmakers early Thursday morning wrapped up their work for the two-year session of the California Legislature, heaping praise on their many accomplishments. (latimes.com)
  • Those two-thirds supermajorities mean the dominant party in deep blue California can pass laws that take effect immediately , raise taxes over GOP objections, and could even override a governor's veto - something lawmakers haven't attempted since 1979, when Jerry Brown was first governor. (kvpr.org)
  • CLIMATE POLITICS - California Gov. Gavin Newsom's last-minute legislative plan for tackling the climate crisis was largely victorious as lawmakers approved laws to set interim targets for 100% clean energy, regulate projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere and smokestacks, and end new oil drilling near communities. (citywatchla.com)
  • No one disputes that California's roads are crumbling and we need to invest in fixing them," wrote consumer advocate Liza Tucker in a letter to California lawmakers. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • A vote for this gas tax is a vote against the consumer and for the oil companies that have feathered the governor's campaign committees and causes and the California Democratic Party with $3.8 million in contributions," the group wrote lawmakers. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • Californians paid $10 billion dollars more for their gas than the rest of the nation in 2015 alone, with the gap between state and national prices reaching as much as $1.50 a gallon, according to a review of oil refiners' quarterly reports submitted to the California Energy Commission's Petroleum Market Advisory Committee by Consumer Watchdog. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • The proposed bill, if passed by California's Legislature and signed by Governor Newsom later this year, will have to be ratified by voters in the November 2020 statewide election. (lexology.com)
  • While it is becoming increasingly clear that both the Legislature and the Governor are proponents of this new tax, it is less clear whether or not California voters, already facing some of the highest taxes in the country, will be keen to endorse yet another layer of state tax. (lexology.com)
  • Tonight, the California Legislature approved a cornerstone piece of Governor Newsom's broader, multi-year behavioral health and homelessness agenda. (ca.gov)
  • The Governor made a commitment to get this done this year and today the Governor and the Legislature delivered on that commitment. (ca.gov)
  • Our state legislature has a Democratic supermajority in both houses and progressive Democratic governor. (indivisible.org)
  • We'll deliver it to the governor and the legislature. (hjta.org)
  • On August 31, 2020, the California State Assembly Banking and Finance Committee voted to give final legislative approval to Assembly Bill 979 (AB 979), allowing it to move forward to Governor Newsom for signature or veto on or before September 30, 2020. (orrick.com)
  • Xavier has been an outstanding public servant - in the State Legislature, the U.S. Congress and as a deputy attorney general," said Governor Brown when he named Rep. Becerra as his nominee last month . (yubanet.com)
  • I want to thank the Legislature, Democrats and Republicans alike, who voted in favor of these critical reforms - particularly Senator Eggman, Assemblymembers Irwin and Wood, and a special thank you to Mayor Steinberg. (ca.gov)
  • But there is little chance that Democrats will lose the overwhelming majorities that allow them to virtually ignore Republicans in the Legislature. (kvpr.org)
  • Democrats retaining that extraordinary control is "a near certainty," said Rob Pyers, research director at the California Target Book that tracks legislative contests. (kvpr.org)
  • Democrats throughout the nation - and particularly California Democrats - have thundered for months that the tax reform bill is just a tax cut for the rich and would hurt the poor and middle class. (hjta.org)
  • These are tables of members of the California State Legislature (California State Senate and California State Assembly). (wikipedia.org)
  • Background colors show their stated political party affiliation, according to the following table: California State Assembly. (wikipedia.org)
  • The nomination is subject to confirmation by the California State Assembly and Senate, which each have 90 days to act. (yubanet.com)
  • Prior to his election to Congress, Rep. Becerra served in the California State Assembly as representative for the 59th Assembly District in Los Angeles County from 1990 to 1992. (yubanet.com)
  • then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe. (google.com)
  • and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature, voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become part of the Constitution. (google.gr)
  • In an unexpected and welcome move, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon appointed Assemblymember Laura Friedman (D-Glendale) to head the Assembly Transportation Committee, replacing chair Assemblymember Jim Frazier (D-Discovery Bay). (streetsblog.org)
  • Senator Anthony Portantino and Assemblymember Laura Friedman both introduced resolutions in the California State Legislature relating to the affirmation of California's recognition of the Armenian Genocide and calling upon the Federal Government to prevent a second genocide from occurring in Artsakh, currently besieged by Azerbaijan. (asbarez.com)
  • Working together, we have produced a huge win for California," Schwarzenegger said Friday, adding, "Our bill provides strong reform that will save jobs, reduce costs for our employers and improve care for injured workers. (californiahealthline.org)
  • When supporters in the state legislature agreed to add to the bill a provision allocating $2 million to help plastic bag makers retool their operations to manufacture reusable bags, this tipped the balance and the California Grocers Association (CGA) threw its support behind the bill. (allgov.com)
  • The Senate bill provides for a full credit given for all federal estate and gift tax paid meaning only that portion of the estate of a California resident or gifts from a California resident having a value between $3,500,000 and $11,400,000 will be subject to California state transfer tax. (lexology.com)
  • Similar to the state gift and estate tax, the California bill provides for a full credit for any federal GST tax paid. (lexology.com)
  • This is most likely an oversight and is expected to be corrected in future versions of the California bill. (lexology.com)
  • California employers would be required to pay their employees double for working on Thanksgiving or Christmas under a bill advancing at the state Capitol. (capradio.org)
  • The California Legislature has passed Senate Bill 553 to protect workers from workplace violence by requiring employers to develop their own workplace violence prevention plans as part of their Cal/OSHA Injury Illness Prevention Plans, according to a news release . (esrcheck.com)
  • Introduced by California State Senator Dave Cortese (Democrat-San Jose), Senate Bill 553 requires employers to develop their own workplace violence prevention plans and employees must be informed of these plans so they may prepare accordingly. (esrcheck.com)
  • As the bill goes through the Capitol, the California Travel Association, or Cal-Travel, has expressed concerns. (fox40.com)
  • California enacted another greenhouse gas bill, AB 32 , in 2006, requiring the state to set a target for emissions to drop to 1990 levels by 2020 . (citywatchla.com)
  • Not only is the urgency clause required with the relevant explanation, but also the Legislature must vote on the urgency clause itself, followed by the bill. (capitolweekly.net)
  • Additionally, as with Senate Bill 826, which required gender diversity on corporate boards in California, there may be challenges to AB 979 on constitutional and other grounds. (orrick.com)
  • On Tuesday, the legislature passed Assembly Bill 418 , which now awaits the signature of Gov. Gavin Newsom. (physiciansweekly.com)
  • The bill has received support from California medical associations including the American College of Emergency Physicians and the California Medical Association. (medscape.com)
  • SB 490 will be eligible for the Legislature to vote on in 2024. (yahoo.com)
  • and if it shall appear that a majority of the electors voting at such election have voted in favor of calling a Convention, the legislature shall, at its next session, provide by law for calling a Convention. (google.gr)
  • But Friedman also seems to share the perspective that California High Speed Rail Program is sitting on a lot of money that could be put to better use, and has pushed for funds set aside specifically to electrify the project to be used for unspecified transit projects in the L.A. area . (streetsblog.org)
  • Unfortunately, the legislative process in California is confusing and the average resident doesn't know how to get involved, so state legislators face few demands for accountability from their constituents. (indivisible.org)
  • Legislative sessions in California last for two years. (indivisible.org)
  • Yet despite the proven benefits of tax relief, "the California Legislature has considered no fewer than 89 proposals in the current legislative session that would cost taxpayers more than $373 billion annually in higher taxes and fees, including taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, sodas, candy, groceries, and services, among others. (hjta.org)
  • The California New Motor Voter Act, AB 1461, would register every eligible citizen who goes to a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office to get a driver's license or renew one, potentially adding millions of new registered voters to California's voter rolls. (ca.gov)
  • AB 1461, the California New Motor Voter Act, aims to address California's lack of voter turnout by making voter registration easier for eligible citizens that interact with the DMV, thereby increasing opportunities for those eligible citizens to participate in our democracy," Assemblymember Alejo said. (ca.gov)
  • Unfortunately, the legislature is moving the state in the opposite direction even as California's jobless rate has hit a post-World War II record of 12 percent. (alipac.us)
  • Similarly, the California Assembly unanimously passed HR-26, introduced by Friedman, reaffirming California's recognition of the murder of 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 to 1923 as genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and Kemalist Turkey. (asbarez.com)
  • Senate Joint Resolution 21 from Sen. Jeff Stone, R-Temecula, would encourage any individual taxpayer in California who disapproves of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to donate their tax savings to the state of California's General Fund. (hjta.org)
  • Actually, for California, the opposite is true: The middle class is better off but, because of the loss of certain deductions, California's wealthiest 11-12 percent will likely pay higher federal taxes. (hjta.org)
  • Despite our massive unemployment, the legislature has passed AB 1236, which would prohibit state agencies, local governments, and special districts in California from requiring an employer to use the federal E-Verify system-even when that employer is a contractor to the government. (alipac.us)
  • A cross-sector partnership between local governments, engineering firms, and non-governmental organizations used the WBT to address water quality challenges for rural and underserved communities in California. (cdc.gov)
  • California leads the nation in Armenian-American issues, as it is home to the largest Armenian diaspora population in the world. (asbarez.com)
  • Furthermore, in many states workers' compensation insurers and employers have been successful in pressuring legislatures to pass laws that specifically prohibit workers' compensation for the health effects resulting from chronic work stressors. (cdc.gov)
  • California SB 378 also proposes creating the 'Children's Wealth and Opportunity Building Fund', a special fund in the state treasury that would receive all of the taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts collected as a result of the state gift, estate, and GST tax. (lexology.com)
  • KTXL) - A proposal going through the state legislature could mean changes to how street food vendors operate across California. (fox40.com)
  • Does anyone need any more evidence that California is now under the control of the reconquista and La Raza advocates! (alipac.us)
  • Tracking California external icon recruited and worked with an advisory group of breast cancer advocates, clinicians, and public health agencies to determine the best way to map breast cancer data for the state. (cdc.gov)
  • By shifting the venue from the legislature to the general public, advocates capitalized on public concern about tobacco and for youth and took advantage of the tobacco industry's low credibility. (who.int)
  • Sen. Bob Hertzberg, a Democrat from Los Angeles, laid out for his colleagues the contentious measure that didn't pass, taking them through a painstaking recounting of the climate change policy accomplishments California has already achieved. (citywatchla.com)
  • Page 200 - No member of the legislature shall, during the term for which he was elected, be appointed or elected to any civil office in the state which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during the term for which he was elected. (google.com)
  • Liza Tucker is a consumer advocate for Consumer Watchdog, following everything from oil and gas to the regulation of toxic substances in the state of California. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. (streetsblog.org)
  • Most resolutions are just silly, having to do with "fluff" issues like, "Resolved, we recognize National Puppy Day," or a resolution establishing another country, such as Cambodia, as a "sister state" to California. (hjta.org)
  • In the last year, resolutions from our decidedly left-of-center legislature have been used to vent against the Trump administration, from establishing a separate immigration policy to whining about the Electoral College. (hjta.org)
  • From its passage in 1988 through 1993, tobacco use in California declined by 27 percent, which is three times faster than the United States average. (who.int)
  • Although allocation of tobacco tax revenues specifically to health education and prevention was a primary goal during the development and passage of Proposition 99, when the venue shifted back to the legislature for implementation, medical organizations successfully advocated illegal diversions of Proposition 99 tobacco control and research funds to medical services. (who.int)
  • The University of California is pleased that state government leaders appear to have reached agreement to increase funding for the university in the 2018-19 fiscal year state budget that will allow UC to put off a tuition increase for California students and provide much needed funds for deferred maintenance," said UC Office of the President, or UCOP, spokesperson Stephanie Beechem in an email. (dailycal.org)
  • Newsom, who is up for re-election and in the final stretch of his first term, urged the Legislature with only about three weeks left in the session to pass the six proposals and approve $54 billion in spending for his climate initiatives. (citywatchla.com)
  • The budget still requires a vote by the full Legislature and Brown's signature in order to pass before the June 15 deadline, according to Sarah Abdeshahian, communications director for Student Regent Paul Monge. (dailycal.org)
  • Approximately 6.6 million California citizens are eligible but not registered to vote. (ca.gov)
  • The idea for the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency was inspired by an act passed by Congress on March 3, 1865. (yahoo.com)
  • There is a common phrase that's tossed around in California state politics - "As goes California, so goes the nation" - the idea that landmark policy change is first enacted in the most populous state, and then spreads to other states, and eventually Congress. (indivisible.org)
  • The California Association of Colleges of Nursing (CACN) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan nursing organization whose members are the universities' Schools of Nursing that offer baccalaureate and graduate degree programs in California. (bvsalud.org)
  • California is the fifth largest economy in the world and houses 12% of the United States population. (indivisible.org)
  • RÉSUMÉ Les transitions démographiques dans les pays arabes, en raison de la baisse des taux de natalité et de mortalité depuis les années 1980, se traduisent par une proportion plus faible d'enfants, une proportion relativement stable de la population âgée et une proportion élevée de personnes en âge de travailler. (who.int)
  • Cet excédent démographique de personnes jeunes, actives, en âge de travailler dans la population actuelle pourrait permettre aux pays de profiter d'une hausse de l'épargne et de l'investissement. (who.int)
  • For six years, Cal/OSHA - which protects and improves the health and safety of workers in California - has worked on a workplace violence prevention plan for businesses known as the Workplace Violence General Industry Draft. (esrcheck.com)
  • SB 740, awaiting approval by the state Legislature, will help bridge this health care Digital Divide by supporting broadband deployment in rural areas to expand telehealth opportunities. (cetfund.org)
  • The California legislature also passed a law regulating health privacy and revising the CCPA's exemption for information regulated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). (wilmerhale.com)
  • The job she would be leaving was a good one, with a pension and a better health care plan than what she could expect in the Legislature. (emergeamerica.org)
  • Street food vendors are a priority for California," State Senator Lena Gonzalez said. (fox40.com)