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AB957 - would require judges to consider a parent’s affirmation of their child’s gender identity in custody disputes; SB403 - would add caste as a form of prohibited ancestry discrimination; SB799 - workers who have been on strike for at least two weeks could receive funds
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 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.
A climate change law (AB1395) named the California Climate Crisis Act failed to pass, but a similar bill (AB1279) with the same name passed in 2022; California HOME Act (SB9), which creates a legal process by which owners of certain single-family homes can create additional units on their property, and prohibits cities and counties from ...
The California Senate will meet in a special session to consider legislation aimed at mitigating sharp, seasonal spikes of gasoline. Senate Democratic leaders announced the plans Tuesday, hours ...
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]
January 7, 2019: Democrat Eleni Kounalakis, a former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, is sworn in as Lieutenant Governor (and Senate President), replacing Gavin Newsom, who termed out but was elected Governor. March 1, 2019: Republican senator Shannon Grove (16th–Bakersfield) replaces senator Patricia Bates (36th–Laguna Niguel) as Senate ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom orders special election to fill vacant Senate, Assembly seats California State Sen. Janet Nguyen and sons Timothy, 4, and Tommy, 6, watch the solar eclipse outside the ...