With time to spare, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the final outcomes on Oct. 13 for all legislation that reached his desk at the end of the first year of the two-year 2025–26 legislative session. Notably, four CSBA-sponsored measures reached the Governor’s desk, with three signed into law.
Originally scheduled to end at midnight on Friday, Sept. 12, the Legislature waived the rules to allow it to continue deliberations into Sept. 13, not adjourning until mid-afternoon. This year featured a number of contentious education-related measures ranging from nonclassroom-based charter school reform to efforts […]
Late on Aug. 29 the Legislature’s respective Appropriations Committees dispensed with their suspense files. Included among the many legislative measures considered by the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees were several CSBA-sponsored bills.
July 18 marked the second house policy committee deadline where, predominantly, the Assembly policy committees heard Senate bills, and the Senate policy committees heard Assembly bills. Typically, the houses apply greater scrutiny to the opposing house’s legislation. The Legislature has begun its four-week summer recess […]
On June 24, the Legislature announced it had reached an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom on the 2025–26 State Budget. With less than a week before the Governor is required to sign a balanced budget, the agreement will be reflected in a follow-up budget bill, […]
June 6 was the official state legislative deadline for bills to pass out of their house of origin, which marks the halfway point in this year’s legislative calendar. It is the point at which bills introduced in their house, i.e. house of origin, must be […]
By Chris Reefe, CSBA Legislative Director On May 23, the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees took up their suspense files, collectively announcing the outcomes of nearly 1,100 legislative measures. Held nine days after the release of the Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May Budget Revise, where it […]
On May 14, Gov. Gavin Newsom released his proposed May Revise to the 2025–26 State Budget. Despite higher than estimated state revenues over the past several months, the May Revise offered a somber view of the state budget in light of significant developments at the federal level.
Last week, a compromise emerged in the two-year saga to reform literacy instruction in California. Assembly Bill 1454 was approved by the Assembly Education Committee with support from the backers of two competing bills. While the negotiations continue on some outstanding issues, the current provisions in the bill provide more implementation flexibility for local educational agencies as compared to similar legislation proposed last session and again this year.
This year, two bills were introduced to help address the impacts of Assembly Bill 218 (2019), which made two predominant changes to the statute of limitations for childhood sexual assault claims. First, it temporarily resurrected the statute of limitations for childhood sexual assault claims from […]
