Recent Streetsblog LA posts about California State Assembly

Four Hit-and-Run Bills Pass CA Legislature, Wait for Governor’s Signature

By Melanie Curry | | 2 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 | | 4 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 […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | | 2 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 | | 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 | | No Comments
Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation related to sustainable transportation. The legislature just came back from its August recess and spent the week catching up on its to-do list. The next few weeks will see a flurry of bills being voted on—and amended—before the session deadline on August 31. LOS gone from CEQA: Big […]
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