Posts Tagged: legislation

Opinion

Public needs more details on OpenAI restructure proposal

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OPINION – OpenAI needs the state of California to approve a corporate restructuring that would fundamentally alter its commitments to the public. But its plans are remarkably short on details, and the public deserves to know much more about how restructuring would affect them.

News

Time running out on prison jobs for disabled workers in SEIU dispute

Vacaville Correctional Medical Facility. Photo by AP.

Without emergency legislation, a little more than two dozen disabled people, including veterans, who work as janitors at a state prison facility in Vacaville are poised to lose their jobs at the end of this month due to a protest lodged by the Service Employees International Union Local 1000.

Opinion

Don’t let bad policy fuel healthcare inflation

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OPINION – Now is the worst time for California’s leaders to inflict unforced errors and bad laws that will make the healthcare system even more unstable—especially when they will do nothing to lower costs. Senate Bill 41 (SB 41)—a bill currently under consideration in the State Capitol—is exactly such a mistake.

Opinion

It’s time for California to modernize public works penalties

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OPINION – California’s public works construction market is worth a staggering $46 billion—and growing. But behind this impressive figure lies a problem that’s costing workers, taxpayers, and responsible contractors alike: outdated penalty and registration systems that effectively reward cheaters and leave regulatory agencies dangerously underfunded.

Opinion

Ensuring AI is democratic by design

OPINION – The story of the Digital Age is one of rapid innovation, with people quickly adopting new tools while institutions meant to ensure everyone shares in the benefits often lag behind.

AI continues to advance at astonishing speed. More than 500 million people around the world—including 80,000 developers representing the next wave of business

Capitol Briefs

Capitol Briefs: Weed, wildfires, classic cars and Hollywood

The California state Capitol at dusk. (Photo: Karin Hildebrand Lau, via Shutterstock)

This was crossover week, and both chambers considered hundreds of bills that only a few days before had cleared their respective suspense hearings. Here is a smattering of some of the significant action under the dome this week. 

Capitol Briefs

Capitol Briefs: Suspense by the numbers

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In this edition of Capitol Briefs we take a quick look at final numbers from the suspense file hearings and note a few bills that will be moving on and one that won’t be.

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