Posts Tagged: legislation
News
In California, just 12 of the 135 members sworn into office for the current 2025-2026 legislative session were aged 35 or younger. The average age of California State Assembly members is 49 years, and the average age of California Senate members is 55 years, according to research by Rutgers University. And yet, in Sacramento, younger legislative staffers are more regularly gaining access to positions of influence in the capitol, even as their generations remain underrepresented among elected officials.
Micheli Files
Unlike some states that have a robust, codified “Code Construction Act,” California spreads its interpretive rules across random segments of a number of the 29 Codes, including the Civil Code and Code of Civil Procedure, as well as decades of judicial precedent.
Opinion
OPINION – California is about to experience an historical level of power being concentrated among Latino leaders. Whether it remains a milestone or becomes a turning point depends on how well they, and all of us who work in this arena, speak to the state’s largest community in a way it recognizes as its own.
Experts Expound
Halloween is upon us so with that in mind tell us what you think was the scariest thing you saw come out of the Legislature or governor’s office this year?
News
As the only statewide race pitting two Democrats against each other, the contest for insurance commissioner offers more than just election-night drama among a slate of otherwise predictable constitutional officer campaigns. It arguably serves as something of a proxy fight for the soul of the California Democratic Party.
News
As late as April 2025, the leaders of DraftKings and FanDuel effectively bent the knee to gaming tribes, appearing on stage with one of the tribe’s most outspoken advocates and declaring that sports betting wouldn’t happen in California without the tribes’ cooperation. Oh, how the sands have shifted since then.
Micheli Files
There have been many court decisions over the past one hundred plus years interpreting key provisions of the Government Code. The following cases highlight some of the key decisions interpreting these statutory provisions related to the legislative process.
News
While Sacramento’s elite firms generate enviable revenues in the millions of dollars, they face an underappreciated challenge as moneymaking businesses: finding new clients.
Micheli Files
In reviewing some of the bills on Governor Newsom’s Desk after the conclusion of the 2026 California Legislative Session, I have come across a number of examples of bill language that I believe is in need of improvement.
Capitol Briefs
The deadline for Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the hundreds of bills sent his way has come and gone. Here are a few tidbits from the bill signing period to note while we wait to see if the governor calls a special session on AI.
Cassidy Denny. Photo by Ellie Appleby, Capitol Weekly
