This chart covers just over the past three decades. It is based upon the Session year, and then lists the numbers of Senate ...

Article IV of the California Constitution deals with the Legislature and the legislative process in this state. The ...

Is there any legal distinction or other significance between ‘intent’ and ‘policy’ statements used in California statutes?

A new committee is visible, signals diligence, and its cost disappears into a budget line, while weak returns stay hidden ...

Here is the mind-blowing caveat: The bill adds Government Code section 8607.3 and states that nothing, including any other law, imposes a duty on public water systems, including wholesale systems, to ...

Chaptering out can be avoided by adopting “double jointing” amendments to a bill prior to its passage by both houses of the legislature and signature by the governor. This “chaptering out” is found in ...

I have compiled a chart from the past eighteen years of the California Legislature and the number of bills each 2-year ...

Like governors before him, Governor Gavin Newsom on occasion includes a “signing message” with bills that he has signed.

On the last day for bill actions (September 30), California Governor Gavin Newsom finished reviewing the 1,160 bills that ...

The following research was updated in October 2026 in order to examine the major actions involving bills in the California ...

In California, the Governor has three options when a bill reaches the Governor’s Desk after having passed the Legislature: sign the bill (and it becomes a statute), veto the bill (and the bill does ...

National Democrats who want the White House in 2028 are writing checks and booking flights for Nevada Attorney General Aaron ...