At a California State Senate committee hearing this year, the director of CalTrans, Tony Tavares, showed a simple chart that might have caused the assembled lawmakers some alarm. It was a series of ...

Assembly Bill (AB) 1415 and Senate Bill (SB) 351 continue to evolve as they progress through the California State Legislature. On August 21, 2025, the California State Senate amended AB 1415 by ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that the state budget deferred a funding cut to the UC until July 2026. In fact, the budget deferred a payment to the UC until then.

Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek said lawmakers will have to “be creative” when it comes to filling the gaps left by federal ...

Assembly Bill 253, also called the California Residential Private Permitting Review Act, has passed the California State Legislature and is expected to be approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The bill, ...

The Center for Effective Lawmaking assigns scores based on the quality of legislation and how far they advance in the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will spend $2.5 billion to help the Los Angeles area recover from recent deadly wildfires under a relief package approved Thursday by state lawmakers. Both ...

The California State Legislature rejected Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed cuts to the UC system and recommended increased funding for the Middle Class Scholarship in its 2025-26 budget proposal. In ...

Over the weekend, lawmakers in Sacramento passed a suite of energy-related bills pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that came forward in the final days of the California legislative session. The measures ...

FILE - Supporters of proposals to expand California's government-funded health care benefits to undocumented immigrants gather at the Capitol for the Immigrants Day of Action, on May 20, 2019, in ...

SEVERAL CHARGES. TEXAS DEMOCRATS HAVE TEMPORARILY PREVENTED THEIR STATE’S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM REDRAWING THEIR CONGRESSIONAL MAP. THEY LEFT THE STATE TO BLOCK A VOTE ON THE REPUBLICAN LED ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California lawmakers just laid the groundwork for a highly targeted building boom. Senate Bill 79, authored by San ...