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On Monday, the Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing, where it will determine whether to place nearly 500 bills on its suspense file or advance them to the Senate floor, according to ...
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 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 committee voted 4-2 to discharge Senate Bill 1327, by Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Contra Costa, out of the suspense file, where bills with a notable fiscal impact go for consideration.
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 ...
Sen. Glazer’s bill needed 4 votes to pass out of committee; the fourth vote was a reluctant one.
Special elections to the California State Senate are called by the Governor of California when a vacancy arises within the State Senate. Most special elections are conducted in two rounds. The first is an open primary and the candidate with the most votes must have a majority of the votes plus one to win the seat. If no candidate wins a ...
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