California State Legislature
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135 Committees,
29 Joint Committees
1,030 Bills,
22 Key Votes
Legislators
70 Senators
(40 Democrats,
30 Republicans)
Each represents approx.
924,041 people
and serves four-year terms with a two-term limit.
148 Committees,
29 Joint Committees
1,549 Bills,
20 Key Votes
Legislators
117 Assemblymembers
(76 Democrats,
41 Republicans)
Each represents approx.
462,021 people
and serves four-year terms with a two-term limit.
Official Site (leginfo.ca.gov)
California State Legislature
2011-2012 session
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Next Election
Nov. 6th, 2012
Last Election Nov. 2nd, 2010
Last Election Nov. 2nd, 2010
The 2011-2012 session began on January 3rd, 2011 and is scheduled to run until September 9th, 2011. Last year, the vast majority of bills were introduced in February, followed by smaller peaks in March and July.
More Links
Here are more links with background on the California government and the best online explanations of how the legislative branch works:
How did we get the above information? Well, almost no U.S. legislature (including California) makes its data available in ways that are fully open, so we had to work around them. Read more about our data sources.
- Reporting Transparency, the official California government site for transparency. This initial effort, besides being insufficiently user-friendly, still falls far short of meeting the Eight Principles of Open Government Data.
- Wikipedia articles on the Senate and Assembly
- Ballotpedia on the Legislature, 2010 Senate elections and 2010 Assembly elections
- OpenCongress pages for CA federal legislators, including Senators and Representatives
- OpenCongress Wiki's list of California state politics blogroll
- The National Council of State Legislatures' official blog, The Thicket, with more CA political blogs in the left-hand sidebar
- GovLoop - social networking for government, including employees from federal, state, and local government.
- CalWatchDog, "an independent, Sacramento-based journalism venture providing original investigative reports and news stories covering California state government."
- Stateline - a nonprofit, nonpartisan online news site that practices journalism in the public interest by reporting on emerging trends and issues in state policy and politics. A project of the Pew Center on the States.
- Sunshine Review - California, a non-profit organization dedicated to state and local government transparency.
- Common Cause - California, a non-profit, non-partisan citizens' lobby organization.
- California State Laws online on the Cornell University Legal Information Institute (LII).
- Official CA State Government portal from USA.gov.
How did we get the above information? Well, almost no U.S. legislature (including California) makes its data available in ways that are fully open, so we had to work around them. Read more about our data sources.