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April 2021 California State Legislature |
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Type |
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Houses |
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Leadership |
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Eleni Kounalakis (D) since January 7, 2019 |
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Toni Atkins (D) since March 21, 2018 |
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Senate Minority Leader |
Scott Wilk (R) since January 20, 2021 |
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Anthony Rendon (D) since March 7, 2016 |
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Assembly Minority Leader |
Marie Waldron (R) since November 8, 2018 |
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Structure |
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Seats |
120 |
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Senate political groups |
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Assembly political groups |
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Elections |
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Senate last election |
November 3, 2020 (20 seats) |
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Assembly last election |
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Senate next election |
November 8, 2022 (20 seats) |
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Assembly next election |
November 8, 2022 |
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Meeting place |
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California State Assembly chamber
California State Senate chamber
A few volumes of the journals of each house (Senate is red; Assembly [lower chamber] is green).
TheCalifornia State Legislatureis a bicameralstate legislature consisting of a lower house, the California State Assembly, with 80 members; and an upper house, the California State Senate, with 40 members.[1] Both houses of the Legislature convene at the California State Capitol in Sacramento. The California State Legislature is one of just ten full-time state legislatures in the United States.[2]
The Democratic Party currently holds veto-proof supermajorities in both houses of the California State Legislature. [3] The Assembly consists of 60 Democrats and 19 Republicans, with one vacancy, while the Senate is composed of 30 Democrats and 9 Republicans, also with one vacancy. Except for a brief period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election. The Senate has been under continuous Democratic control since 1970.
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