On Monday, the state Senate Appropriations Committee sent SB 51 to the so-called suspense file, a common procedure for state bills with a fiscal impact. However, the action also sets the stage for a hearing Thursday when committee members could determine the fate of the proposed measure. Asta...
Senate Bill (SB) 601authorizes specified state agencies to establish a process for a person or business either displaced or experiencing economic hardship as a result of an emergency to apply for a fee reduction or waiver required to obtain a license, renew or activate a license, or replace a...
Last September, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)pulledhis Senate Bill 339 aimed at making it easier for people to receive PrEP from a pharmacist due to the Assembly Appropriations Committee inserting language into it he considered to be a "poison pill amendment." He had contende...
2008: Californians approve a measure allowing four specific tribes to expand their slot machine offerings by a total of 17,000 machines, while also requiring these tribes to contribute more funds to the state. 2012: Senate Bill 1463 was introduced to legalize online poker, but the bill ultimatel...
Carrie also noted that we are keeping an eye on the progress of theAdult Survivor’s Act, which was passed by the state senate in 2021 but has not been put up for vote in the state Assembly. “Victims of sexual assault need to be able to hold their abusers accountable, and we know ...
Atkins, now the president pro tempore of the state Senate, has filled in as governor a few more times since then, most recently in July when she signed three bills into law and quipped that she was thrilled to once again step into the governor’s shoes, “although...
State Sen. Scott Weiner talks during a Senate hearing in Sacramento, California, on June 28, 2018. A California climate package was introduced Monday. The bills would require companies to disclose its emissions, create a group to evaluate climate-caused financial risk, and ban public pensi...
On Thursday, final amendments were made to Senate Bill 902, which would effectively end almost all single-family zoning in California. A‘lighter’ SB 50 SB 902, written by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) was designed as a ‘lighterSB 50‘, the controversial dense housing bill thatfa...
investments. At the same time, renewable electricity is increasingly replacing gas-fired electricity generation to help meet the clean electricity targets laid out in Senate Bill 100, and state and local government policies and programs are promoting electrification of residential and commercial build...
Ted Cruz in a race that is one of Senate Democrats’ only offensive targets in 2024. Allred easily avoided a runoff with state Sen. Roland Gutierrez and can now turn directly to toppling Cruz, who had one of the closest Senate races in the country in 2018. Allred was first el...