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Senate Bill 1403 would create the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency, the body responsible for overseeing and monitoring the state agencies and departments that would implement reparations.
Senate Democratic leaders announced the plans Tuesday, hours after the Assembly passed a bill pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration to eventually require the state’s oil refineries to ...
Senate Bill 1011 was co-authored by Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-Santee, and Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas. A similar bill, Senate Bill 31, also introduced by Jones, failed last ...
In California, the process of impeachment has existed throughout its statehood allowing the State Legislature to remove certain officeholders. The State Assembly can initiate an impeachment, bringing about an impeachment trial in the State Senate through which an officeholder can be either suspended from office or removed from their office and disqualified from again holding state office.
The California State Senate has never been expanded since the enactment of the 1879 constitution. In 1962, voters were asked via initiative California Proposition 23 whether to expand the state senate by 10 seats, thereby increasing the size of the body to 50 seats, and to abandon the little federal model. [9]
The California State Legislature is the bicameral state legislature of the U.S. state of California, consisting of the California State Assembly (lower house with 80 members) and the California State Senate (upper house with 40 members). [1] Both houses of the Legislature convene at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.
Senate candidates brawled Tuesday night over energy, the economy, corporate ties and almost anything else Californians care about. ... With two weeks to go before the state’s March 5 primary ...
The president pro tempore of the California State Senate (President Pro Tem) is the chief executive and highest-ranking member the California State Senate and serves as chair of the Senate Rules Committee. The Pro Tem is chosen at the beginning of each two-year session, via election by all the other senators-elect.