Recent Streetsblog SF posts about State Assembly

Four CA Hit-and-Run Bills Await Governor Brown’s Signature

By Melanie Curry | Aug 29, 2014 | No Comments

Four bills targeting hit-and-run crimes in California await Governor Jerry Brown’s signature, including two from Assemblymember Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles), who has made hit-and-runs a focus this year. The bills have passed both houses of the California legislature and are awaiting the governor’s signature. One, a late addition to the legislative calendar (A.B. 47), would […]

Steinberg Kills Bill That Sought to Delay Cap-and-Trade on Fuels

By Melanie Curry | Aug 27, 2014 | No Comments

The misinformation campaigns trumpeting an imminent “hidden gas tax” in California lost a battle with the defeat of Assemblymember Henry Perea’s bill, A.B. 69, which was designed to delay application of cap-and-trade to the fuels industry for three years Fuel companies have already begun participating in the state’s cap-and-trade auctions, buying pollution credits that they can […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | Aug 25, 2014 | No Comments

Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation related to sustainable transportation. Today was the last day to amend bills for this legislative session. Any bill that doesn’t get passed by midnight next Sunday, August 31, will be officially dead. Among the flurry of votes, the following bills passed out of both the Assembly and […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | Aug 15, 2014 | No Comments

Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation related to sustainable transportation. With a deadline for amendments looming next Friday, marathon floor sessions are keeping legislators in the capitol churning through long lists of bills. Protected Bike Lane Bill Still Being Amended: A.B. 1193 from Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) is the bill that would […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | Jul 11, 2014 | No Comments

Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation related to sustainable transportation. The legislature is in recess until August. Light-rail no longer illegal in LA’s San Fernando Valley: A.B. 577 from Adrin Nazarian (D-Sherman Oaks) was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown last week. The bill repealed a 1990 law that prohibited construction of […]

CA Assembly Bill Aims to Delay Cap-and-Trade for Fuels

By Melanie Curry | Jul 9, 2014 | No Comments

In a last-minute maneuver before the California Legislature’s summer recess, Assemblymember Henry Perea (D-Fresno) amended a bill to delay the application of California’s cap-and-trade system to fuels until 2018. Co-authors of the bill, A.B. 69, include Assemblymembers Cheryl Brown (D-Fontana), Tom Daly (D-Anaheim), Isadore Hall (D-Rancho Dominguez), Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina), Freddie Rodriguez (D-Chino), and […]

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