Virtual power plants, which could save state ratepayers an estimated $550 million per year, are connected aggregations of distributed energy resources like rooftop solar and energy storage.

SAN DIEGO — California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones introduced a bill this week that would make it harder for local law enforcement in California to resist cooperating with immigration authorities.

California state lawmakers have announced a bill that would ban the sale of new or refurbished disposable electronic cigarettes.

Session, legislators in both houses are subject to a 2-year limit of 35 bills. But did the lower caps actually produce fewer bills this year? In a special edition of the Micheli Files, law professor and lobbyist Chris Micheli took a look a bill intros going back almost two decades to give us that answer.

SACRAMENTO— A bill to assess fees on the largest fossil fuel polluters to pay for the climate damage they’ve caused in California was introduced in the state legislature today.

Local Republican politicians trying to promote a change in state immigration law, were drowned out by the chants of protestors who didnt want to hear it.

Sen. Brian Jones’s bill would overhaul California’s “sanctuary state” law passed in 2017, which limits how much local law enforcement works with ICE around the state.

The proposed law, SB 554, is titled “Safety Before Criminal Sanctuary,” and is a direct response to a policy passed by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors last December.