If the bill passes, California will become the fifth state to have such legislation; assisted dying bills have been adopted by Montana, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington. The California Medical Association (CMA) changed its official stance on the bill on June 2, when it announced it was taking ...
2024, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two bills, Assembly Bill 2288 and Senate Bill 92, which substantially reform the state’s Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act, or PAGA. As many California employers may already know, PAGA allows private individuals...
California state and local governmental bodies—our state legislature, and counties and cities—were active again this year in their efforts to regulate the workplace. Littler Workplace Policy Institute has been tracking these bills as they worked their way through the legislature. ...
number of "sexually violent predators" who are being granted conditional release by the Department of State Hospitals amid an ongoing struggle to find housing for the men. The reporting prompted several proposed changes to state law, but, one by one, the bills are dying inside California's ...
1 The bills require companies with significant revenues in California that are “doing business in California”2 to publicly disclose greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data and climate-related financial risk reports. The third California climate bill, Assembly Bill 1305, Voluntary Carbon Market ...
The bill, which still needs final approval from the state Assembly, would let the state buy the power. The money would come from a surcharge imposed on Californians' electricity bills. State regulators would decide how much this charge would be. Consumers would not pay it until the wind p...
What –There are several bills enacted: Effective January 1, 2023, Assembly Bill 2693 updated the state’s COVID-19 notice requirements: Under existing law, if an employer receives a notice of potential exposure to COVID-19, they are required to take action within one business day of the ...
He convened the Legislature in a special session to pass the bills. The state is used to taking the federal government to court over Trump actions. California sued the Republican president's administration more than 120 times during his first term, according to the attorney general’s offi...
While I am signing this bill and two other bills that also mark two significant days, before increasing the number of stateholidays beyond the more than a dozen already recognized, I encourage the Legislature to identify criteria to help evalu...
“Californians are being threatened by an out-of-control administration that doesn’t care about the Constitution and thinks there are no limits to its power,” said Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, in a statement earlier this week. “That is why we are delivering legislation that will ...