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General Guidance in Reading the Financial Code

June 18, 2022 8:00 amJune 18, 2022 8:06 am

California’s statutes are contained in 29 separate codes. The tenth alphabetically is the Financial Code. All 29 Codes have general provisions applicable to reading and interpreting that Code’s sections. The following are selected general provisions of the Financial Code: Section...

Governor Newsom Appoints Tony Tavares As Next CalTrans Director

June 18, 2022 2:30 amJune 19, 2022 3:17 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Friday that Tony Tavares, the current District 7 Director of of the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), was appointed as the next CalTrans Director. Tavares, a Civil Engineering graduate of UC Davis, started his careers...

California Legislature’s Harassment Retaliation Prevention Act

June 17, 2022 3:30 pmJune 17, 2022 9:01 pm

In the California Government Code, Title 2, Division 2, Part 1, Chapter 1.5, Article 12 is the “Legislative Discriminatory Harassment Retaliation Prevention Act,” which is contained in Sections 9149.38 to 9149.41. Article 12 was added in 2018 by Chapter 952....

California’s Uniform Single Publication Act

June 16, 2022 4:24 pmJune 16, 2022 4:29 pm

California has a number of formal acts in statute. The Uniform Single Publication Act is contained in Civil Code Division 4 (General Provisions), Part 1 (Relief), Title 4, which includes Sections 3425.1 to 3425.5. This was added in 1955 by...

California Legislature’s Review of State Agencies

June 16, 2022 11:55 amJune 16, 2022 7:01 am

Among their myriad of duties and powers, the California Legislature is required to review state agencies and their work pursuant to Government Code Title 2 (Government of the State of California), Division 2 (Legislative Department), Part 1 (Legislature), Chapter 1.5...

The Abundance Choice, Part 15: Our Fight for More Water

June 16, 2022 2:30 amJune 15, 2022 8:49 pm

There are plenty of ways to ration water, and California’s state legislature is pursuing all of them. Restrict agricultural water allocations until millions of acres of California’s irrigated farmland is taken out of production. Ban outdoor watering entirely in urban...

Gov. Newsom and Democrats Fast-Track New Gun Control Bills

June 15, 2022 11:44 amJune 17, 2022 6:43 am

“Before parents had even identified their dead children after Tuesday’s horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, California Gov. Gavin Newsom Tweeted about gun violence and crowed that California’s gun control laws work, implying there would be more to come,” the...