End of legislative session (so a lot of bills that need to either be passed or die are getting final action), the first legislative session under a new governor that is slightly more progressive and much less a believer in relatively narrow focus on policy change at any one time than his predecessor, and a Democratic supermajority.

> and a Democratic supermajority.

This is the key. With Gov Brown, he still had a modicum of temperance that they couldn't override. Now the legislature has carte blanche to do whatever they want, because regardless of the governor, they can override his veto.

> This is the key.

No, it's not.

> With Gov Brown, he still had a modicum of temperance

That's a difference between Brown and Newsome, yes.

> that they couldn't override.

There was a Democratic supermajority for a session under Brown, too, but (both now and then) the Democrats in the legislature aren't marching in lockstep on the rare issues where there is a majority in conflict with the Democratic governor, so while the supermajority is significant, it's more because (1) it means swinging a few votes isn't enough to deny a majority, and (2) some legislation requires a supermajority even without a veto, not because of he possibility for veto overrides of a same-party governor.

Maybe if they’re ambitious they can do something about the homeless crisis next.

Hahaha yea right, that problem is actually hard. Cleaning up straws is much easier.

That sort of cynicism is needless. Considering that this thread is about private prisons, a very serious issue, bringing up a literal straw man is disingenuous and completely unnecessary.

It's not a strawman argument if that's really what they are spending time on that should be spent addressing far more important issues like homelessness. They shouldn't spend 1 second talking about an issue so meaningless on the list of issues they need to tackle. If you can't see that they are grabbing at low hanging fruit so that they can say they accomplished something then I think you might be a bit naive. A ban is literally the easiest cop-out for legislatures to do. No deep thinking required to blanket ban everything you don't like or perceive as problematic.

Seems like outlawing single-Family zoning should be easy, but how many NIMBYs reside in the state legislature?

September 13th is the last day for the legislature to pass bills in the current session.

The current legislative session is about to close.

end of the legislative year, all bills are crammed in the last weeks

signing very important things at the last minute is part of negotiations strategy.. the bills can and do change overnight

Many legislatures including ones in the united states have readings of many laws over time, and then revisit passing them all at once

Instead of sporadically throughout the year

California being the 5th largest world economy and relevance to the silicon valley population simply becomes of interest on this site

Other states arent just twiddling their thumbs but it is interesting what California legislature is passing