California voters in November passed Proposition 36, which increased the penalties for repeat thieves and fentanyl dealers.

Limiting public participation flagrantly ignores the California Constitutional right to access and participate in their ...

As summarized by the Wall Street Journal, “The initiative would require a majority of voters to approve taxes adopted by the legislature ... change the course of the state this coming November.

Voters don’t want more rhetoric. They want results:  safer streets, healthier families, and a justice system that works for ...

As lawmakers rush through thousands of bills in Sacramento and make decisions in secret, regular Californians are often ...

Eleven years ago, then-Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg authored legislation that allows initiative ... Legislature — including six years as Senate Pro Tem — before running for mayor of ...

Five years later, unfinished business from the Prop 22 contest could either inspire a costly lobbying tug-of-war in Sacramento, or trigger a new round of legislative dealmaking over the place of g ...

Photo by Paul Kitagaki Jr., The Sacramento Bee ... They’d just lost three legislative seats to Republicans. Voters rejected several progressive priorities on ballot initiatives. Kamala Harris had one ...

If SJR2 gets legislative approval and if voters pass it, it would require in the Utah Constitution that certain ballot initiatives must pass not just by a simple majority, but get at least 60% ...

Sacramento, CA – Senator Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), Chair of both the Senate Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs and the Senate Select Committee on Hydrogen Energy, proudly announces that ...

The package received bipartisan support from the Legislature, though some progressive ... unsuccessfully fighting to keep a tougher-on-crime initiative off the November ballot.

Both the Legislature ... Sacramento Democrats also understand that having Prop. 36 on the ballot hurts their chances in November. Their efforts to thwart the reforms in the initiative are as ...