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What are the main component parts that comprise the California state budget? What is the “Budget Bill Jr.”? What is a Trailer Bill? The intrepid Chris Micheli, answers these and many other burning budget questions in this week’s Micheli Files.
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This is the second part of a 2-part article on addressing some of the main questions concerning California’s political and election laws.
Micheli Files
This is the first part of a 2-part article on addressing some of the main questions concerning California’s political and election laws.
Micheli Files
You have questions about lobbying, we have answers. Or at least our intrepid Chris Micheli does as he takes a look at many of your most pressing questions in this week’s Micheli Files.
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In our system of government lawmakers make laws and courts are tasked with interpreting those statutes. That process is based on a surprisingly large number of factors.
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In recent weeks our intrepid Chris Micheli has given us a detailed look at California’s complex official rulemaking process. This week he turns his sights on our state’s equally intricate legislative process.
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California’s official rulemaking process is, to say the last, incredibly complex. In this second of a two-part Micheli Files, lobbyist and law professor Chris Micheli examines more aspects of that process. Part I of can be found here.
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We’ve all heard the expression “The rules are the rules.” But when it comes to making rules in the state of California, the process has its own labyrinth of, well, rules to guide the process.
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You have questions about the myriad of rules around drafting bills in the California Legislature – we have answers! Or to be more accurate, our good friend Chris Micheli has answers.
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For the 2025 Session, legislators in both houses are subject to a 2-year limit of 35 bills. But did the lower caps actually produce fewer bills this year? In a special edition of the Micheli Files, law professor and lobbyist Chris Micheli took a look a bill intros going back almost two decades to give us that answer.