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Medical marijuana dispensaries that abide by security rules in California would not be subject to local or state prosecution for illegal sales under a measure approved Monday by the state Senate. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento)...

SACRAMENTO -- The state Senate acted Monday on bills aimed at protecting pay phone users against high charges and reducing robberies of pharmacies. The Senate approved SB 50, which requires California pay phones to have signs warning those using...

A Republican state assemblyman who represents Camarillo backed Eric Garcetti for mayor of Los Angeles on Friday, one of a group of military service members and veterans to give their endorsement to the city councilman. The announcement at an event in...

A pared-down bill that would send sex offenders who repeatedly remove their GPS tracking devices back to state prison cleared its first legislative committee Tuesday, making progress where broader measures failed. In a deal struck with Democratic...

Laying the groundwork for debate over half a dozen bills that would send parole violators back to prison, Assembly Democrats on a public safety committee Tuesday shot down a bill that would require prison for paroled sex offenders who fail to register...

Lawmakers alarmed at an increase in the number of sex offenders violating parole have vowed legislation to make tampering with their electronic tracking devices a crime that sends them back to prison....

California Democrats will be pushing new legislation in hopes of preventing anonymous political donations like the $11 million contribution that stirred controversy this year. On Thursday, Assemblyman Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento) announced a bill (AB45)...

The Connecticut school shooting continues to spawn legislation in California aimed at improving campus safety. A year after the Legislature stalled action on a bill to require schools to establish emergency-response plans, state Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance)...

The day after a federal judge cast doubt on a new state law banning sexual-orientation therapy for minors, a second judge issued a ruling upholding it....

Less than 24 hours after a U.S. district judge issued an injunction blocking California from enforcing its ban on gay-conversion therapy, a second judge disagreed, making the fate of the first-in-the-nation law unclear....

A new ban on therapy that seeks to change the sexual orientation of minors from gay to straight was one of the most discussed laws passed from the California Legislature this year. It was the first law of its kind......

Lawmakers to serve areas left not represented for two years by redistricting....