California’s Open Meeting Laws (transcript)
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/californias-open-meeting-laws
Today’s podcast is an overview of local and state open meeting laws here California. California has three types of open meeting laws that apply to local and state governmental entities.
These laws have been adopted over a number of years, and they equally apply to state
The Single-Subject Rule (transcript)
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/the-single-subject-rule
Today’s podcast is on California legislation and the single‑subject rule.
Many state capitol observers are aware of the single‑subject rule, because many are familiar with California Constitution Article II, Section 8(d), which provides that an initiative measure embracing more than one subject may not be submitted to
Yesterday was the deadline for ballot initiatives that had qualified for the ballot – that is, they received the requisite number of signatures – to be pulled from November’s ballot. In fact, three initiatives were withdrawn from the ballot for this November.
The three initiatives that Californians will not be voting on come November are
This week’s LIVE episode of The CAP·impact Podcast was recorded a little while back at the Sterling Hotel here in Sacramento. Every year, the Capital Center for Law & Policy hosts the Mike Belote Endowed Capital Lecture. This year’s topic, and today’s episode, was Journalism in the Era of Fake News.
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/episode-11-journalism-in-the-era-of-fake-news-part-1
The discussion
The Role of the Judicial Branch in the Legislative Process (transcript)
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/the-role-of-the-judicial-branch-in-the-legislative-process
Today’s podcast is on the role of the judicial branch in the lawmaking process here in California. Members of the state and federal judiciary branches play a role in California lawmaking in the actual legislative process, as part of our
The Role of State Agencies in Policy Making (transcript)
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/the-role-of-state-agencies-in-policy-making
Today’s podcast is about state agencies and their role in public policy development. California’s agencies – including departments, board, and commissions – engage in a fair amount of public policy making through both their rule making authority, as well as their interpretation
Last week, a ballot initiative to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act qualified for the November ballot. Yesterday, the Assembly Committee on Housing & Community Development and the Senate Judiciary Committee held a joint initiative hearing on the measure.
Costa-Hawkins was passed in 1995 and was most recently amended in 2004.
https://soundcloud.com/capimpactca/episode-10-not-letting-perfect-become-the-enemy-of-the-good/s-OkdTJ
This week’s episode of The CAP·impact Podcast features a case study in one of Ray LeBov’s Rules for Effective Lobbying: not letting the perfect become the enemy of the good. Today we are talking with folks from two organizations that regular readers and podcast listeners will be familiar with – the California Partnership
Yesterday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined twenty other state Attorneys General in signing a letter demanding that the U.S. Department of Justice, led by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “end its new ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy which separates children from their parents.”
This action comes short of Attorney General Becerra’s more
It’s been three months since U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Sacramento to announce his lawsuit against the State of California challenging various provisions of the new sanctuary state law. I posted about my initial evaluation of the claims when Sessions announced the lawsuit. Tomorrow is a big hearing in federal