California legislature

Brain sensors are advancing, and California companies, lawmakers and unions are jockeying to shape how the resulting data can be used.

Lawmakers could tackle climate money, wildfires and California Forever before they adjourn for the year and hit the campaign trail.

Democrats are advancing a bill over objections from rural residents, ranchers and Republicans that would study whether California should bring back grizzly bears.

In 2023 California allocated $500 million in grants for schools to hire literacy coaches and take other steps to boost reading skills.

California Democrats are used to defending gun control measures against lawsuits by Second Amendment advocates. Now, the state is facing a lawsuit from the Trump administration targeting a new law restricting sales of Glock semi-automatic handguns.

Four new laws that went into effect on July 1 focus on keeping California students healthy, safe and concentrating on learning, according to legislators.

Southern California Democratic lawmaker Blanca Pacheco’s bill would have added high fees to records requests submitted for a “commercial purpose” and allowed counties more avenues to deny records and take people to court.

Assemblymember Blanca Pacheco’s legislation would allow public agencies to delay records requests it deems “improperly” filed, sue for “malicious” requests and charge up to $66 an hour to produce government records. One good governance advocate calls it a “virtual horror show of governmental non-transparency.”

State lawmakers’ budget plan would reject or delay many of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s social service cuts. Now, the budget negotiations begin in earnest.

Arts advocates are asking for $90 million in one-time funding for California’s arts agency and independent contractors to be included in the state budget ahead of the June 15 deadline.

California lawmakers are holding up money the Newsom administration requested for a nationwide driver license database over concerns that the information could lead to deportations.

Gov. Gavin Newsom endorsed new carbon market rules that could drastically shrink the state’s funding for climate projects, threatening the spending deal he struck with legislators last year. Senate Democrats aren’t having it.