Community Leaders React To State Spending On Homelessness, Education
Part of the package comes with $100 million for mental health services that would address the shortage of qualified mental health professionals.
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Part of the package comes with $100 million for mental health services that would address the shortage of qualified mental health professionals.
CBS13 Investigator Julie Watts sat down with Newsom Thursday and asked for his response that story in light of the billion dollars in his budget aimed at the homeless crisis.
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $213 billion state budget Thursday that boosts spending on K-12 education, wildfires and homelessness.
California is close to overhauling its guidance for teaching sex education in public schools, offering teachers a framework for talking to kindergartners about gender identity, discussing masturbation with middle-schoolers and recommending books that teach healthy practices for LGBT high schoolers.
More than three-quarters of middle and high schools in California start before 8:30 am and at least one lawmaker wants to change that.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to end the sales tax on tampons and diapers and use revenue from legal marijuana sales toward enhancing child care programs.
California may keep President Donald Trump off of next March's Presidential Primary ballot, unless he discloses five years worth of tax returns to the Secretary of State.
The proposal to ban students from using smart phones at school or on school grounds unanimously passed the California Assembly Thursday with some provisions to the original bill.
California's plan to keep Daylight Saving Time year-round passed its first two Assembly Committee hearings and is on its way to becoming law. However, it can only go into effect if federal law changes.
California may ban youth football teams from holding more than two full-contact practices a week during the season, and no full-contact practices during the offseason, in an effort to cut down on the amount of concussions and head injuries.
California's three major utilities spent at least $1.3 million to lobby state government in the first three months of 2019, during which one filed for bankruptcy and Gov. Gavin Newsom called for rethinking the state's energy future.
An effort to expand rent control in California won't move forward this year after the lawmaker behind it cancelled a planned public hearing Thursday, saying his plan needs more work.
Questions are being raised about California's plan to allow state workers to bring their infants to work.
Lawmakers are pushing a bill to protect drivers of party buses and limousines from the effects of second-hand cannabis smoke.
The street, circle and plaza directly in front of the California State Capitol could get a new name.
