The California Legislature held a steady pace of actions on the Senate and Assembly Floors this week as legislators face a June 4 deadline to pass to the next house bills introduced in their house of origin. Next week will feature floor sessions only with committees unable to meet for any purpose until June 7….
Read More »Today, the California Legislature reached the deadline for fiscal committees to meet and report to the floor bills introduced in their house. Both the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees convened suspense file hearings on Thursday to dispense with hundreds of legislative measures by advancing them to the floor or holding them in the committee. Of…
Read More »The California Legislature this week convened a number of budget hearings to review state agency and department budget proposals while anxiously awaiting today’s presentation of the Governor’s May Revise. The Legislature remained in a bit of a holding pattern ahead of next week’s Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees suspense file hearings which are anticipated to…
Read More »Today marks the deadline for non-fiscal bills to be heard and advanced to the floor by policy committees of the California State Senate and Assembly. Recall, last week, a similar deadline was passed for all legislative measures with fiscal implications to be heard and advanced by policy committees. Bills that did not meet the deadlines…
Read More »Earlier this week, the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management, chaired by Assembly Member Freddie Rodriguez, convened a hearing entitled “The Role of Cal OES and Emergency Management in Providing an Equitable Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The hearing featured two panels – one with local representatives and one with state officials. Up first, the local…
Read More »Today, the California Legislature reached the deadline for bills with fiscal implications to be heard and advanced by policy committees to appropriations committees. Next week, the Legislature faces a similar deadline to hear and advance non-fiscal bills to the floor in the bills’ house of origin. Over the coming weeks, Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees…
Read More »The California State Senate and Assembly this week continued with its steady pace of policy committee hearings as the Legislature approaches upcoming deadlines for measures to be advanced in the legislative process. Next Friday, April 30 is the last day for policy committees to meet and report to appropriations committees bills with fiscal implications introduced…
Read More »Assembly Member Rob Bonta on Thursday was confirmed as California’s next Attorney General by the California State Senate and Assembly. Recall, Governor Gavin Newsom last month nominated Bonta to succeed Xavier Becerra, who is now the Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services. Bonta was confirmed to his new position on a 29-6 vote…
Read More »This week, the California State Senate and Assembly continued with a series of policy committee hearings, amending measures and advancing bills through the legislative process. Recall, the Legislature has two weeks to hear and report any bills with fiscal implications in their houses of origin. Bills without any fiscal implications must be heard and reported…
Read More »This week the California State Legislature started back up a flurry of policy committees after their Spring Recess. All bills introduced in their house of origin with any fiscal implications must be heard in their policy committees by April 30 and non-fiscal bills must be heard by May 7. Below, we highlight several bills of…
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