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Like Reagan, Schwarzenegger and Brown, Newsom uses veto pen to rein in spending by California lawmakers
It’s the job of a governor to play adult supervisor and not give adolescent state legislators all the spending money they’d like. Otherwise, they’d break the family bank. All modern California governors have performed this role, often in different ways and frequently with relish.
California lawmakers vote to ban mandatory evictions for arrested tenants
State lawmakers approved legislation late Wednesday that would bar mandatory evictions or exclusion for California tenants and their families based on criminal histories or brushes with law enforcement. Assembly Bill 1418 combats local policies known as “crime-free housing” that can require landlords to evict tenants for arrests or prohibit landlords from renting to those with prior convictions.
California lawmakers vote to increase housing in cities falling short of construction goals
California lawmakers approved legislation on Monday to expand a housing law that has led to the construction of thousands of new homes, despite initial opposition from both labor unions and environmental groups.
For more than 20 years, California lawmakers wouldn’t let their staffers unionize. That’s about to change
The effort to allow California’s legislative staff to unionize — at least 23 years in the works — is nearly across the finish line.
California lawmakers approve the nation’s most sweeping emissions disclosure rules for big business
Major corporations from oil and gas companies to retail giants would have to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those that come from activities like employee business travel under legislation passed Monday by California lawmakers, the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation.
