California Watch
News stories in this section spotlight activities in California, including actions by the state Assembly and state Senate; proposed legislation; regulators like the Department of Managed Health Care and Department of Insurance; and the state ACA exchange, Covered California.
According to California’s Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, some 97% of the state’s companies have a gender wage gap. To close that gap, the state legislature has instituted a new law, SB 973, also known as the “pay data reporting law.”
Claim: California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state had an estimated $76 billion budget surplus when he introduced his May budget revision last week. But on Monday, the Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report that estimated the surplus at $38 billion, much lower than the administration’s figure. The difference in estimates led his critics on social media to ...
California announced Monday it’ll continue requiring almost everyone — including fully vaccinated individuals — to wear masks in most indoor settings until June 15, bucking the trend of other states across the nation that are quickly adopting looser guidelines released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than two-thirds of Californians have antibodies to the COVID-19 virus, according to new data, offering evidence that we’re approaching so-called “herd immunity” — the pandemic’s endgame. In just one month, the percentage of Golden State residents showing some immune protection has soared from 47% to 67%, and is likely higher now, according to an ...
A year after tackling what state finance officials projected would be a record budget shortfall, California’s government is rolling in so much money that it could be forced to give some cash back to taxpayers.
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday said California’s state-run individual retirement account program for workers is not governed or preempted by the federal law on employee benefits, even if its mandatory contributions are “irritating or even burdensome” to some employers. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the CalSavers ...
Let’s say you’re walking down a busy street, or hiking on a popular trail, and see people coming the other way. The path you’re sharing is narrow and you’ll have to pass less than six feet from the other group.
California could become the only state to let adult children add their parents as dependents to their health insurance plans, a policy proposal aimed at increasing insurance coverage among low-income people living in the country illegally who aren’t eligible for government-funded coverage. Former President Barack Obama’s health law let parents keep their adult children on ...
California lawmakers on Monday approved the last part of a COVID-19 economic recovery package, sending the governor a bill he supports that provides up to $6.8 billion in state tax breaks for California businesses.
Just a few months ago, California was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Hospitals in Los Angeles were drowning in patients, and ambulances were idling outside with people struggling to breathe, waiting for beds to open.