Sameea Kamal

Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes, a Democrat from Riverside, missed hundreds of votes in the last legislative session when she was absent because of a death in the family, and because of illness. PHOTO BY MIGUEL GUTIERREZ JR., CALMATTERS

The California Legislature will see more turnover this election than any point in the last 10 years.

While Republicans celebrated a red wave nationally, California voters affirmed the state's solid blue politics with Democratic candidates seeing strong returns for state and federal office.

While Republicans celebrated a red wave nationally, California voters affirmed the state’s solid blue politics with Democratic candidates seeing strong returns for state and federal office.

California's state Senate will be at least 50% women for the first time in history and, depending on a few undecided races, the state Legislature overall could reach gender parity for the first time.

California’s state Senate will be at least 50% women for the first time in history and, depending on a few undecided races, the state Legislature overall could reach gender parity

The California Assembly will limit the number of bills each member can introduce from 50 each two-year session to 35, according to house rules that will be adopted at the start of the session today.

California agencies assigned to prepare reports to the Legislature on how new laws are working often fail to submit them properly, or at all.

We know how legislatures work: lawmakers introduce bills, debate on them and vote yes or no. Right? Not exactly. Of the 2,403 bills that died in the

Many new laws passed by California contain requirements for progress reports. This year, agencies have sent in such reports only 16 percent of the time.