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By: @Ophelia Szigeti On January 22, the California State Senate and Assembly Committees on Appropriations held their respective Suspense File hearings ahead of the deadline for committees to report to the floor “two-year” bills introduced in their house of origin. Among the key bills...
By @Kyle Packham The last day for propositions to qualify to appear on the November 5, 2024 Statewide General Election Ballot is June 27, 2024. Below is an overview of the state-of-play and an executive summary of the most significant measures affecting special districts and the...
By @Marcus Detwiler On Thursday, November 16, CSDA’s Board of Directors met in Sacramento and adopted “oppose” positions on a pair of ballot initiatives that may appear before California voters on the November 2024 ballot. The two ballot initiatives, numbered 23-0015A1 and 23-0025A1 ...
By @Mustafa Hessabi Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom joined the State Legislature and former President pro Tempore of the California State Senate John Burton to file an emergency petition for writ of mandate with the California Supreme Court, asking the court to conduct preelection...
By @Marcus Detwiler The California State Assembly voted to concur in Senate amendments to Assembly Constitutional Amendment 13 (Ward) , clearing the final procedural hurdle necessary for the measure to appear on the ballot before California voters. Throughout the final days of session, ACA...
Proponents of Initiative #21-0042A1 submitted 1,429,529 signatures by the August 2 deadline to qualify the constitutional amendment for voter consideration. Should county elections officials confirm the validity of at least 997,139 signatures, the initiative to limit the ability of voters and...
Senate Bill 450 aims to establish the means for administering the distribution of the funding within the Special District Fire Response Fund , a subaccount within the California Fire Response Fund, established as a result of the passage of Proposition 19 (2020). Recent amendment language added...
Proponents of Initiative #21-0042A1, which would limit revenues for local government services, have announced they will not meet the deadline to qualify for the November 2022 ballot but will continue pursuing qualification for the November 2024 election. To qualify for the 2024 statewide ballot,...
Today, the California Special Districts Association (CSDA) joined a coalition of public safety, labor, infrastructure groups, and other local government groups announcing their strong opposition to California ballot initiative 21-0042A1 , deceptively titled “The Taxpayer Protection...
AB 1543 (Bloom) , a measure that would have diverted property tax increment away from special districts, cities, counties, and schools, has failed to advance. This “two-year bill”, introduced in 2021, needed to clear two legislative policy hearings this week to stay ahead of legislative...