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By: @Kyle Packham At its August 25, 2026 meeting, the CSDA Board of Directors approved an Oppose position on Proposition 43, which would increase the vote threshold on certain local ballot measures. The Board also elected not to take a position on Proposition 45, an initiative to rework...
By: @Anthony Tannehill CSDA successfully advocated to protect special districts’ ability to seek full restitution for wildfire damages from investor-owned electric utilities (IOU’s) as Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed liability package was introduced over the final weekend of the 2025-2026...
By: @Anthony Tannehill CSDA is advocating to protect special districts’ ability to fully recover for wildfire damage from investor-owned utilities as the Governor has proposed that such liability be limited. CSDA’s advocates have been speaking to the administration, legislators, key...
By: @Anthony Tannehill Last week, CSDA’s legislative committee held an emergency meeting to discuss an urgent issue regarding wildfire liability that is expected to be proposed in Sacramento in the final two weeks of the legislative session. The committee chose to oppose certain provisions...
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...