Ryan Sabalow, CalMatters

Beginning in 2027, children from 8 to 16 years old will have to pass a five-step test to be considered properly restrained by a seat belt under California law.

Over the years, casino-owning tribes have spent millions in court, in the Legislature and at the ballot box trying unsuccessfully to force their only competitors out of California’s casino business.

Assemblymember Robert Garcia (D-Rancho Cucamonga) is choosing to vote no, instead of abstaining from bills he dislikes. “I did feel that if you’re … going there to Sacramento, it’s to know the bills and to take a position and, you know, and not be on the sidelines.”

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Sen. Aisha Wahab implored her colleagues to think of hospitalized patients and struggling families as she pitched a proposal to give tenants a full two weeks to pay their past due rent before their landlords could start the

San Mateo Democratic Assemblymember Diane Papan’s Assembly Bill 882 would lift the ban on recording in civil cases for three years to give the courts time to hire more reporters and ease the shortage.

A Democratic California senator is now considering suing Sacramento police for what she alleges was a “politically motivated” false DUI accusation intended to “silence” an LGBTQ Latina lawmaker, her attorney tells CalMatters.

Prosecutors will not file DUI charges against California Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, after a blood test showed she had “no measurable amount of drugs or alcohol in her system” following a crash last week in Sacramento a few blocks from the Capitol.