The governor has 30 days to act in 2026. In the first year of the Legislature's two-year cycles, the governor is limited to ...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. I’m CalMatters reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn, and I’m subbing for Lynn La today. Bills to regulate artificial ...
California voters will be asked in a Nov. 4 special election to waive the state’s independent redistricting process and approve new partisan congressional maps that favor Democrats. California’s ...
California Republicans are firming up their opposition to the proposed redistricting measure that Democrats are fast-tracking through the state Legislature SACRAMENTO — California’s push to redraw the ...
Legislators are making fast work on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting proposal this week — but not without some procedural hiccups led by Republicans who oppose the effort. Elections committees in ...
On September 13, 2025, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 79 (“SB 79), authored by Senator Scott Wiener, representing one of the most important land use reforms of the 2025 legislative session, one ...
OUTLOOK. THANKS FOR JOINING US AT FIVE. I’M LISA GONZALES. I’M GULSTAN DART. AND CALIFORNIA IS FACING A DEFICIT NEXT YEAR THAT’S EXPECTED TO BE $18 BILLION IN THE OPTIONS FOR LAWMAKERS RIGHT NOW TO ...
Over the weekend, lawmakers in Sacramento passed a suite of energy-related bills pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that came forward in the final days of the California legislative session. The measures ...
Of the dozens of wildfire-related bills that legislators were quick to introduce in the wake of the wildfires that ravaged greater Los Angeles in January, roughly half of the ones tracked by Southern ...