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What Does a Bill Propose to Do to a Law?

March 11, 2022 7:52 amMarch 11, 2022 11:19 am

Bills in the California Legislature can do one of three things or a combination of those three: Add a statute; amend a statute; or, repeal a statute. Bills can be found at the following website: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/ This website is maintained...

Californians Can Weigh In on PG&E’s 22% Proposed Rate Hike with Calif. Public Utilities Commission

March 11, 2022 6:48 am

With double-digit inflation, mega-gas prices in California, high food costs, high housing costs, and used cars selling for new car prices, gird your loins: Pacific Gas and Electric is proposing a 22 percent rate hike. PG&E electricity customers were recently...

An Interesting Bill Involving California Legislative Intent and the ADA

March 11, 2022 2:45 amMarch 10, 2022 9:49 pm

Recently-introduced committee bill, Assembly Bill 2962 (authored by the Committee on Judiciary), presents an interesting case of the role of legislative intent, in particular regarding federal case law. AB 2962 would to add Section 55.4 to the Civil Code, amend...

Bill To Tax to House Flippers and Speculators 25% Moves To Assembly Committee

March 10, 2022 4:34 pmMarch 10, 2022 4:34 pm

A bill that would massively tax house flippers and speculators who buy and sell a house within three years was moved to the Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation earlier this week. Assembly Bill 1771, authored by Assemblyman Chris Ward...

EPA Announces That California Can Set Own Vehicle Emissions Standards Once Again

March 10, 2022 12:58 pmMarch 10, 2022 7:57 pm

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Wednesday that they would be dropping a 2019 order known as SAFE-1 that bars California from having their own vehicle emission standards, allowing California and other states to once again have the more...

A sea of empty desks inside the California State Assembly

Should California Bills Use ‘Includes’ or ‘Means?’

March 10, 2022 9:19 amMarch 10, 2022 9:22 am

When attorneys in the Office of Legislative Counsel are drafting bills for California legislators, they often delete the word “includes” and substitute it with the word “means.” Why is that being done by these legislative lawyers? The following example comes...

California and Drug Decriminalization: A Long and Complicated Issue

March 10, 2022 2:49 amMarch 9, 2022 9:43 pm

The decriminalization of drugs, especially harder drugs in the FDA’s schedule I territory, has always been an odd issue in California. Growing up in Ohio, California was always the punchline of drug jokes by our very decidedly not funny D.A.R.E....