(KCRC) NORTHSTATE, Calif. — Many individuals continue to advocate for reduced rates, including Senator Josh Becker through the introduction of Senate Bill 254. Meanwhile, PG&E anticipates utility rates will drop next year, but the amount is still to be determined.
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Legislation that would revamp parts of California’s utility structure — creating public financing opportunities for large-scale projects, returning climate credits back to customers and potentially saving ratepayers billions annually on electricity bills — is headed to the state Assembly, state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, said.
Two bills would replace $15 billion in utility power-grid investments with cheaper public financing — a new approach to cutting sky-high electricity rates.
New legislation in California would sets rules for chatbots that are designed as personalized and sometimes emotionally supportive digital friends.
Lawmakers from both parties are celebrating the Senate’s decision to cut a provision that would have put a 10-year pause on state-level regulation of artificial intelligence from the reconciliation bill hours before it passed.
In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation after it cleared the House
Californians are tired and angry about the seemingly intractable, unsheltered, street homelessness crisis.
After serving in elected office for 12 years, I have been frustrated by the many boxes that we’ve put around ourselves as policymakers that somehow justify allowing people to suffer, degrade and ultimately die in front of us, while our public spaces become living spaces for other humans.
(SiliconValley.com) - California’s embattled labor agency acknowledged Monday that “an intermittent issue” has surfaced with the computer system its workers use to process claims for unemployment benefits.
The state Employment Development Department has told staffers for multiple state lawmakers that the computer system for handling jobless benefits is experiencing outages and glitches.
“We’re trying to catch up with our IT folks,” said Loree Levy, a spokesperson for the state EDD. “It appears there was an intermittent issue.”