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July 18, 2016 By Alex Vassar

The Brief Reign of Governor Tom

It won’t last long, but Tom Torlakson‘s brief term as Acting Governor next week will be one for the record books. As mentioned in a previous article, in the late 1950s, the State Assembly’s Subcommittee on Impact of Enemy Attack extended the Governor’s line of succession from just the Lieutenant Governor and Senate President Pro Tempore to […]

Filed Under: California law, Constitutional Officers, Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Legislation, Top Stories Tagged With: Alex Vassar, Chris Nguyen, Dennis Hollingsworth, Greg Sperla, Jerry Brown, Senate Fellow, Tom Torlakson

June 30, 2016 By Alex Vassar

Behold! The 2016 California’s Legislature has Arrived!

There is exciting news this week in the world of California legislative publications that you can get for free (admittedly, as a resident, this world isn’t that large)… the arrival of the 2016 edition of California’s Legislature from the Assembly Chief Clerk’s office. The core of the book is the hundreds of pages of in-depth information […]

Filed Under: California law, Constitutional Officers, Current Research, Editorial, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories

March 21, 2016 By Alex Vassar

A Title Lost: California’s Legislative Historian

Associate Governmental Program Analyst. Agricultural Technician III. Data Processing Manager. Most job titles in California State Government are formulaic series of words that, while useful in understanding the duties of the position, are so wickedly unimaginative that you have to wonder if they were created by a committee. Yes, in fact, they were. But sometimes, […]

Filed Under: California law, Current Research, Editorial, From the Archive, JoinCalifornia, Legislation, Redistricting, Special Elections, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories

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