On Wednesday, a budget subcommittee of the state Senate axed the governor’s plan to slap awater taxon Californians to fund a safe drinking water program in disadvantaged communities. Newsom endorsed the tax in January and highlighted it last week in his May budget revision. Newsom’s recor...
The prospects for the Film California First (FCF) program continuing this next fiscal year as of June 6, 2003, have improved considerably. The outlook brightened when California state Assembly and Senate budget subcommittees agreed to fund the program, albeit at a reduced annual allocation of $6...
GREENWIRE|SACRAMENTO, California - How bad is California's wildfire insurance crisis? So bad that the state can't get coverage for its own firehouses. The irony emerged at a state Senate Budget subcommittee hearing Thursday in Sacramento, where Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration defende...
PG&E hasslashed its vegetation management programas part of the company’s effort to curb costs. But with its new budget, PG&E is preparing to spend billions of dollars to strengthen thousands of miles of power lines in regions where the risk of wildfires is high by either b...
Just two senators attended the hearing in person, held in a large committee room in the state Capitol. Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee chairwoman Holly Mitchell wore a mask and conducted the hearing with a package of disinfectant wipes at her side. ...
In the State Senate on a party line vote, lawmakers Thursday morning established a budget and fiscal review committee for the Trump-related special session. “This is tone deaf,” said State Sen. Brian Jones R-Santee, on the Senate floor. “Focusing on suing the administration that hasn’t...
letter comes ahead of the Senate Commerce Committee’s hearing on Policy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework next Wednesday. The House Energy Committee’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will also meet next week (Tuesday) on Protecting Consumer Privacy in the Era of Big ...
Calif. Assemblymember Kevin McCarty Named Chair of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance Christopher Simmons-Dec 28, 2016 SACRAMENTO, Calif. /California Newswire/ -- California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D – Paramount) today named Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D- Sacramento) Chai...
Gov. Jerry Brown, flanked by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, urges members of the Environmental Quality Committee to approve a pair of bills to extend cap and trade. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) One particular message to the agriculture industry ...
Then-Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) suggested at the time that the move would lead to “positive cultural change and strengthen the integrity of this great institution.” But as the Capitol now soul-searches over allegations of widespread sexual harassment, the...