Category: Legislative Updates

Legislature, Governor Finalize $26 Billion Wildfire Liability Measure

This week, the California Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom finalized a sweeping $26 billion wildfire liability measure aimed at protecting wildfire victims, creating additional safety and oversight processes for public utilities, and holding public utility companies accountable for safety of their infrastructure systems. After extensive negotiations between the Legislature, Administration, and relevant utility and wildfire…

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Legislature Faces Policy Committee Deadline Next Week, Another SSB Bill Shelved for Year

Facing deadlines for fiscal and non-fiscal bills to be heard and reported to the floor by policy committees in the second house next week, the California Legislature held a series of hearings this week, each often stretching several hours. Lawmakers continued working in earnest to finalize negotiations and amendments for fiscal bills to be advanced…

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Policy Committees Face Looming Deadline Prior to Summer Recess

The California Legislature this week continued with a steady pace of bill negotiations and amendments and policy committee hearings, facing a looming deadline in two weeks for fiscal and non-fiscal bills to be heard in second house policy committees. Facing an abbreviated timeline next week due to the Independence Day holiday, policy committee hearing agendas…

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Committee Hearings Ramp Up, SB 276 Clears Major Hurdle in Assembly

This week, the California Legislature maintained a steady pace of committee hearings, bill negotiations, and amendments. Agendas for committee hearings over the next several weeks are becoming quite lengthy as legislators approach the next round of deadlines in early July prior to their month-long summer recess set to begin on July 12. Below, we highlight…

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Legislature Continues Bill Hearings in Second House, Faces Busy Month Ahead

This week, the California Legislature held a number of policy committee hearings on bills in their second house. In what is shaping up to be a very busy month ahead, the Assembly and Senate continued setting bills for hearings in their policy committees ahead of the July 10 deadline for fiscal bills and July 12…

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Policy Committees Resume Hearings in Opposite House

This week, Assembly and Senate policy committees once again began holding hearings on measures advanced out of their house of origin in compliance with the May 31 deadline. The Legislature has just over one month before facing additional deadlines for policy committees to hear and report fiscal bills to fiscal committees (July 10) and non-fiscal…

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Legislature Reaches House of Origin Deadline, Policy Committees to Resume Hearings Next Week

Today marks the deadline for the California Legislature to pass bills out of their house of origin. Both the Senate and Assembly this week were in floor sessions only, maintaining a steady pace of floor debate and votes each day. Measures passed out of their house of origin will now be considered through the committee…

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Legislature Advances Bills Out of Houses, Faces Floor Deadline Next Week

The California Legislature maintained a steady pace of floor sessions this week, working to advance measures out of their house of origin ahead of next Friday’s deadline to do so. Both the Senate and Assembly face another busy week of floor session again next week, and no other committees other than the conference committees or…

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Over 1,000 Bills Considered During Appropriations Suspense File Hearings

Yesterday, both the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees held Suspense File hearings ahead of today’s deadline for fiscal committees to hear and report bills in their house of origin. In hearings each lasting just over one hour, Appropriations Committees advanced or shelved over 1,000 bills. As a result of the hearings, over 700 bills remain…

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Legislature Faces Fiscal Committee Deadline Next Friday

This week, the California Legislature maintained a steady pace of committee and floor activities as it approaches a series of upcoming deadlines. Today marks the last day for policy committees to meet prior to June 3, and next Friday marks the last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the floor bills introduced…

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