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

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?

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 ...

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

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

The debate Wednesday night on CNN was the only scheduled head-to-head between Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, moderated by Dana ...

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

Recently, a video titled “Live Look at Kern County, California as PBF Refinery Refuses to Buy Barrels from the San Pablo Pipeline” has circulated on social media. The video shows a convoy of crude oil ...