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Eighty Assembly members and 40 senators turn thousands of bills into a few hundred laws each year. Here is the path a California bill takes, where it can die, and how residents can follow it.
Signature thresholds, title and summary, county verification and a long list of deadlines stand between an idea and a statewide proposition. Here is the process, step by step.
The governor proposes in January, revises in May and the Legislature must pass a budget by June 15. A walk through the calendar, the school-funding guarantee and the reserve rules that shape every year's plan.
A 12-member state commission reviews development along California's 1,100-mile shoreline. Here is how it was created, how it shares power with cities like San Diego, and how the public can weigh in.
Voters capped property taxes in 1978 at one percent of value and limited yearly increases in assessed value. Here is what Proposition 13 does, how related measures changed it, and why it still shapes local budgets.
The California Public Utilities Commission reviews what investor-owned utilities like SDG&E may charge. A guide to rate cases, who speaks for customers, and how discounts and public input work.
