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In 2022, with Democrats having a super-majority in both houses of the legislature, corporations have been using this process to challenge the power that unions and other progressive activists currently yield in the legislature. [2]: 1 California Senate Bill 202, passed in 2011, mandated that initiatives and optional referendums can appear only ...
Propositions can be placed on the ballot either through the exercise of the initiative power by the voters or by a vote of the state legislature. The state initiative power was added to the California constitution in 1911 as part of the ethics reform instituted by Governor Hiram Johnson in the early 1910s.
The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate. The Assembly convenes, along with the State Senate, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento .
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.
The California Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) (referenced in statute by its original name, the Legislative Counsel Bureau) [1] was founded in 1913 and is a nonpartisan public agency that drafts legislative proposals, prepares legal opinions, and provides other confidential legal services to the Legislature and certain other California agencies and offices.
Lawmakers in California have revealed a sweeping set of legislative proposals aimed at providing reparations for state residents who are descendants of enslaved Africans.
Her metaphorical client: The California Latino Legislative Caucus, which the Long Beach-area state senator heads. At 38 members strong, it’s one of the largest groups of its kind in the United ...
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