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What Is ‘Batching’ of Bills in the California Legislature

May 27, 2022 6:30 amMay 27, 2022 6:17 am

For those tuning into the Assembly Floor Sessions during deadline weeks, you are likely to hear the term “batching.” What does that term mean? Batching Batching means putting together a group of bills for consideration in a single motion, or...

CA Senate Passes Guaranteed Basic Income Bill for ‘Homeless’ Graduating High Schoolers

May 26, 2022 4:55 pmMay 27, 2022 9:24 am

The California State Senate just passed Senate Bill 1341 by Sen. Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley), to establish a guaranteed income program to 15,000 homeless graduating high school seniors. The “California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (CalSOAR)” is now headed to...

What Are Legislative Committee Bills?

May 26, 2022 11:09 amMay 26, 2022 11:13 am

When we think of authoring bills, we generally, and appropriately, think about legislators. However, committees can also author bills. The rules related to committee bills are found in Assembly Rule 47 and Senate Rule 23. Assembly Rules Assembly Rule 47...

The Abundance Choice, Part 7: An Environmentalist Juggernaut

May 26, 2022 2:25 amMay 30, 2022 1:32 pm

Environmentalists in California, who constitute much of the vanguard of environmentalism in the world, have normalized extremism. The solutions they’ve proposed to supposedly save the planet, and the premises they’ve convinced millions of people to accept as beyond debate, constitute...

CA State Water Board Adopts Emergency Water Conservation Regulation

May 25, 2022 5:38 pmMay 25, 2022 4:18 pm

Did you know that the State of California has 436 water suppliers – both urban water retailers and wholesalers? These local water agencies and suppliers are now going to be pushing “more aggressive conservation.” Tuesday, in response to Governor Gavin...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Calls for More Gun Control Legislation Following Texas School Shooting

May 25, 2022 2:55 pmMay 25, 2022 2:56 pm

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. https://twitter.com/KATYSaccitizen/status/1529260737880682496...

California Farm Water Coalition Warns Domestic Food Supply In Peril with State Cutting Water

May 25, 2022 11:08 amMay 25, 2022 11:09 am

The California Farm Water Coalition issued a dire statement Tuesday warning that California’s agriculture industry and food supply is in peril because of restricted agriculture water supplies. “Today’s State Water Board emergency water conservation regulation continues to demonstrate how serious...