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On the first day of the 1991-92 Session, the members of California Legislature had 1,265 years of prior legislative experience.

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DYK

On the first day of the 2015-16 Session, the members of California Legislature had 398 years of prior legislative experience.

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Term Limits Strikes Again

Today is “term out” day for fifteen members of the State Assembly. Under California’s first term limits law, legislators were forbidden from serving more than three terms in the Assembly. A court decision later clarified that partial terms of less than half a term wouldn’t count as a full term, meaning that the halfway point […]