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Starting next year, California businesses will be prohibited from using hidden fees to attract customers with seemingly low prices. The rules surrounding “junk” fees — from cell phone to ...
On Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1524, an emergency measure to exempt California food and beverage vendors from Senate Bill 478 — a law that goes into effect in July and targets ...
Poll taxes became a tool of disenfranchisement in the South during Jim Crow, following the end of Reconstruction. Payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states until 1965. The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late nineteenth century as part of the Jim Crow laws.
Starting July 1, a new California law will prohibit restaurants and other businesses from charging customers “junk” fees.. Senate Bill 478 will eliminate hidden charges on purchases made ...
Legalizing medical marijuana under California law. Proposition 218 (1996) Passed: Right to vote on local taxes; assessment and property-related fee reforms; initiative power expansion in regard to local revenue reduction or repeal. Constitutional follow-up to Proposition 13 (1978). Proposition 22 (2000) Passed, then declared unconstitutional
A property-related fee or charge is not "increased" for purposes of Proposition 218 when an agency does either or both of the following: (1) adjusts the amount of a property-related fee or charge in accordance with a schedule of adjustments, including a clearly defined formula for inflation adjustment that was adopted by the agency prior to ...
Last month, a poll from the Public Policy Institute of California showed even stronger support for Prop. 36, with 71% of likely voters in that survey saying they’ll vote yes.
Both the DOJ and the industry's suit against California over the law was restarted in August 2020 following the conclusion of the Mozilla case. [10] With the election of Joe Biden as president in January 2021 and the indication that the FCC would likely change its rules to be favorable of net neutrality, the DOJ dropped its suit against ...