The big news from late last week, and last weekend, was State Senator Tony Mendoza’s (D- Artesia) resignation from the California Legislature moments before the State Senate was going to vote on whether or not to expel him. His fiery resignation letter hinted that he was not ruling out running for re-election
Underground Regulations and the Role of OAL
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Today we’ll be exploring underground regulations and the role of the Office of Administrative Law, OAL.
OAL is charged with ensuring that agency and department regulations are “Clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public.” OAL as you’ll recall, is also responsible for
Agencies Supporting the California Legislature
Today’s podcast looks at legislative branch support agencies. While there are quite a number of important entities, the first and foremost of the entities supporting the California Legislature is the Office of Legislative Counsel.
Legislative Counsel, or Leg Counsel for short, is a nonpartisan entity
Comparing Congress and the California Legislature
Today’s podcast will explore some of the differences between Congress and the California Legislature.
Obviously, the California Legislature is based upon the United State Congress, and certainly, both are prominently featured in the state and federal constitutions. We’ll start with some similarities that I
Common Mistakes Lobbyists Make
Today’s podcast is a slightly different take on our In Practice series. It’s actually part In Practice as well as part addendum to Ray LeBov’s Rules for Effective Lobbying series.
The podcast today is from a fly on the wall regular perspective of a conversation between contributors – and
The Oroville Dam Crisis – The Impacts and the Ways Forward
I sat down recently with Assembly Member James Gallagher (R – Yuba City) to talk about a major issue that hit close to home for him, the Oroville Dam crisis in February 2017. We talked at length about the issues at the
Regular vs. Emergency Rulemaking
In today’s post, we will examine the differences between regular and emergency rulemaking in California.
As a refresher, the formal rulemaking process is established by the California Administrative Procedure Act, the APA.
Unless a statute expressly exempts an entity from some or all of the APA’s
How To Research California Legislative History and Legislative Intent
Today’s podcast is about getting a better understanding of California legislative history and intent research. Of course, many law review articles and books have been written on legislative history and intent. This podcast covers the subject in a summary fashion.
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In today’s Rules for Effective Lobbying podcast we will be discussing some life rules as they apply to lobbying. Some of my previously mentioned rules have been specifically generated in the lobbying context. There are others that are really life rules of more general applicability.
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I sat down with McGeorge alum Aaron Brieno (’14) to talk about his new non-profit community based organization, Inspire California. Inspire California, to put it briefly, exists to help create and foster and college-ready and college going among high school aged students in the Central