Assemblyman Josh Hoover and Senator Roger Niello discuss the Senator’s bill to enact Permanent Standard Time, how to remove partisanship from initiative ballot titles and summaries, limiting cell phone use in schools, the state’s budget predicament, California’s nation-leading unemployment rate, a federal judge’s order to audit LA homelessness programs, and the new minimum wage law taking effect this month.
Assemblyman Josh Hoover and Senator Roger Niello discuss the Senator’s bill to enact Permanent Standard Time, how to remove partisanship from initiative ballot titles and summaries, limiting cell phone use in schools, the state’s budget predicament, California’s nation-leading unemployment rate, a federal judge’s order to audit LA homelessness programs, and the new minimum wage law taking effect this month.
Host: Assemblyman Josh Hoover
Cohost: Senator Roger Niello
Question of the Week: Should schools limit or restrict student cell phone use during the school day?
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Reducing the negative effect of cell phone use on a child’s mental health
Tackling the state budget shortfall
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/03/newsom-legislators-gimmicks-budget-deficit/
California now has nation’s highest unemployment rate
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/03/california-economy-newsom-speech-sluggish/
Prop. 1 barely passes
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/california-message-homelessness-newsom-00148434
Federal judge orders audit of LA homelessness programs
State Farm not renewing 72,000 policies
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article286963825.html
Clip of the Week: Assemblyman James Gallagher on fast food minimum wage carve out bill (1:58:50-2:00:20)
https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-floor-session-20240318
Confusion persists for on which companies must pay a higher wage
https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/03/california-minimum-wage-fast-food-workers/
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