The Legislature adjourned the 2013-14 legislative session at around 3 a.m. on Saturday morning after a mostly uneventful run-up to the closing gavel.  Both houses conducted business late into the night to praise outgoing members of the Legislature and move the statewide plastic bag ban bill (SB 270, Padilla), a three-bill package of changes to the Political Reform Act, and the myriad other odds and ends that typically appear in the last hours of session. 

CSAC continued to work on several issues throughout the evening, including groundwater (AB 1739 by Assembly Member Roger Dicknson and SB 1168 and SB 1319, both by Senator Fran Pavley), redevelopment solutions (SB 628 by Senator Beall), and as series of bills to increase paid sick days and force labor negotiation parties into mediation (AB 1522 by Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez and AB 2126 by Assembly Member Rob Bonta, respectively). 

Large achievements were made by the Legislature in the 2014 session, which is the second year of the two-year legislative cycle, included placing both a water bond and rainy day fund measures on the November 2014 statewide ballot and passing the 2014-15 Budget Act on time by June 15, the Constitutional deadline for the state budget. 

The Governor has until September 30 to act on the hundreds of bills sent to him by the Legislature over the last two weeks of August.