Engrossment
Engrossment
Our newsletter, Engrossment, began in Spring 2004. Our current issue is visible below. Previous issues, on the right, are formatted as PDF documents.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
With the change in the calendar comes a new schedule for legislative bills introduced in the California Assembly and Senate. Here are some legislative deadlines coming up during the next two winter months. . . Read more...
2011 BILLS
There were an unusual number of 2011 bills requested for legislative history research this past Fall, even before the Governor signed or vetoed them. A number of our research projects arose out of interested parties’ efforts related to the new legislation, such as the issue of budgets, funding, and redevelopment agencies. . . . Read more...
REDEVELOPMENT
AB 26x and 27x were two budget trailer bills that were intended to stabilize school funding by reducing or eliminating the diversion of property tax revenues from school districts to the state’s community redevelopment agencies . . . . Read more...
NEW! "BENEFIT" CORPORATIONS
AB 361 authorizes the creation of a new corporate form called a “benefit corporation.” Current state law under the General Corporation Law and the Nonprofit Corporation Law authorizes the formation and governance of general corporations or nonprofit public benefit corporations, nonprofit mutual benefit corporations, and nonprofit religious corporations . . . . Read more...
GAVEL IN, GAVEL OUT
When the City of Bell drew wide-spread public attention for the pay scandals involving its local officials, AB 23 was carried to preclude serial or simultaneous compensation for members of a legislative body attending serial or simultaneous meetings by simply gaveling in and gaveling out of meetings . . . . Read more...
ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION
California Common Cause sponsored SB 397 to permit online voter registration to begin prior to the completion of a new statewide voter registration database, under certain conditions . . . . Read more...
RENTERS MAY POST POLITICAL SIGNS
SB 337 prohibits a landlord from prohibiting a tenant from posting or displaying political signs relating to an election or legislative vote, initiative, referendum or recall . . . . Read more...
PAYMENT BONDS AMENDED
From 2009 through 2011, during the national economic crisis that badly hit the state’s housing construction industry, the subject of payment bonds was finally addressed successfully in SB 293 . . . . Read more...
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