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SACRAMENTO - Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) announced today one of his two bills to help prevent drink spiking —AB 1013 passed its first legislative committee, the Assembly Government Organization Committee, with bipartisan support, by a 18...

SAN MATEO – Today, Assembly Bill 575, a bill to make three commonsense improvements to California’s Paid Family Leave (PFL) law, was approved by the Assembly Committee on Insurance.

SACRAMENTO – The California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), AB 886, has received unanimous support from the influential Media Guild of the West, the union that represents journalists at the Los Angeles Times, the Southern California News Group and...

Sacramento, CA –Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan’s (D-Orinda) landmark bill paving the way for regulations on automated decision tools (ADTs) has passed the Privacy Committee. The bill is the first of its kind in the state and requires developers and users to...

Sacramento, CA — Today, Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) along with renowned Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion coach Cesar Gracie and MMA referee and former pro-fighter Herb Dean celebrated the passing of AB 1136, the Mixed Martial Arts Pension...

Sacramento – Assemblymember Matt Haney’s (D-San Francisco) AB 12 passed out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. It will now head to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 12 stops the practice of California landlords charging two times (and...

SAN MATEO – Today, Assembly Bill 893, a bill to require peer to peer car rental companies to adhere to requirements related to airport operations, the collection of fees on rental transactions and the collection of the state tourism assessment fee...

Torrance, CA - Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance), Chair of the Assembly Education Committee, announced his decision not to set Assembly Bill 1314 (Essayli, Gallagher) for a hearing in the Education Committee. This bill would require a teacher...

At a time when voters are more concerned than ever about the dominance of Big Money in politics, Senator Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) and Assemblymember Alex Lee (D-San José) have introduced parallel bills, SB 24 and AB 270, to restore control to local...

Sacramento – Today Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) announced the Legal Justice for Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Victims Act that will ensure that survivors of violent acts—who are then found guilty of committing violence against...