Under California State Law,  being an enrolled college student is not a legal reason to be excused from jury duty. Instead, students have the option of deferring their on-call date. It is ...

After the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the California State Legislature moved quickly to place Proposition 1 on the ballot. Although there is a ...

Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) introduced legislation to phase out the sale and distribution of single-use plastics by 2030. Senate Bill 54/AB XX establishes ...

We want our children to be safe going and coming back to school, without having to pass by semi nude men and women doing drugs on the sidewalk.

SB 972, as amended, Allen. Sidewalk vendors. Existing law prohibits a local authority, as defined, from regulating sidewalk vendors, except in accordance with specified provisions. Existing law establishes that a violation ...

Recognizing that our State’s inadequate testing capacity to control COVID-19 is a barrier to the opening of California schools and its businesses, leaving our most in-need children and poor citizens ...

The petition Dear LAUSD Families, Students and Community Partners: We invite you to join Los Angeles Unified’s advocacy efforts at the state level by supporting Senate Bill 70 by Senator Susan Rubio ...

Five prominent environmental groups are calling on the Senate to swiftly confirm a permanent head of the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement office, according to details shared exclusively with The Climate 202. President ...

As a mental health court judge, I work every day with people who are homeless and have serious mental illness. My cases involve people from all over Los Angeles County. ...

Los Angeles Proposition ULA is on the ballot as an initiative in Los Angeles on November 8, 2022. A "yes" vote supports a ballot initiative to: -enact a 4% tax on the ...

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As a standalone bill, Eric Swalwell’s No Student Loan Interest Act has just seven co-sponsors. And in a bid to prevent struggling borrowers from being crushed by large payments, the ...

In 2022, there will be at least four ballot measures addressing abortion — the most since 1986. Measures have been certified for the ballot in Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, and Vermont. Should one more abortion-related measure make the ...

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, inspect, and regulate skilled nursing facilities, as defined, and prohibits a person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or political subdivision ...

Unemployment levels for young Americans and minority workers are at levels unseen since the Great Depression. Furthermore, the economy is not rebounding fast enough to put millions of formerly-employed workers ...