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Holiday greetings from Sacramento
Coast) will take over as Pro Tem in
the Senate. You can expect some
shu昀툀ing of committee assignments
and leadership positions when he
is formally installed. The Legislature returns on January 3rd for the
second half of a two-year session.
Some left-over bills will be dealt
with in January while at the same
time a couple of thousand new
ideas will get introduced.
By Beau Biller, Platinum Advisors
It’s always an exciting time in Sacramento when there is a changing
of the guard and the deadline for
running for o昀케ce comes up.
The new Speaker of the Assembly
is Robert Rivas (D-Salinas). He
has made some changes to committees and is settling in for what is
likely several years at the helm. As
with any new Speaker his earliest
and most ardent supporters have
been rewarded with leadership and
prime committee posts. In February
Senator Mark McGuire (D-North
As of writing this it appears that
Assemblyman Vince Fong (R-Bakers昀椀eld) is the front runner for
former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. And also, of note
veteran Assemblyman Eddie Garcia (D-Riverside) did not 昀椀le for
re-election leaving that seat up for
grabs. After the 2024 election another 24 members of the Legislature will be brand new.
In news from DBAW the latest report is no formal action on a comprehensive budget proposal to deal
with HWRF. In my experience that
could all be subject to change, especially given the $68 billion projected budget shortfall. On January
15th, or thereabouts, the Governor
will release his budget and we
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