Global InformationCalifornia State Assembly information
California State Assembly | |
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| California State Legislature | |
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| Type | |
| Type | Lower house of the California State Legislature |
Term limits | 6 terms (12 years) |
| History | |
New session started | December 5, 2022 |
| Leadership | |
Speaker | Robert Rivas (D) since June 30, 2023 |
Speaker pro tempore | Jim Wood (D) since November 22, 2023 |
Majority Leader | Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D) since November 22, 2023 |
Minority Leader | James Gallagher (R) since February 8, 2022 |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 80 |
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Political groups | Majority
Democratic (62)
Minority Republican (18) |
Length of term | 2 years |
| Authority | Article 4, California Constitution |
| Salary | $114,877/year + $211 per diem |
| Elections | |
Voting system | Nonpartisan blanket primary |
Last election | November 8, 2022 |
Next election | November 5, 2024 |
| Redistricting | California Citizens Redistricting Commission |
| Motto | |
| Legislatorum est justas leges condere ("It is the duty of legislators to enact just laws.") | |
| Meeting place | |
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| State Assembly Chamber California State Capitol Sacramento, California | |
| Website | |
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The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate. The Assembly convenes, along with the State Senate, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.
The Assembly consists of 80 members, with each member representing at least 465,000 people. Due to a combination of the state's large population and a legislature that has not been expanded since the ratification of the 1879 Constitution,[1] the Assembly has the largest population-per-representative ratio of any state lower house and second largest of any legislative lower house in the United States after the federal House of Representatives.
Members of the California State Assembly are generally referred to using the titles Assemblyman (for men), Assemblywoman (for women), or Assemblymember (gender-neutral). In the current legislative session, Democrats have a three-fourths supermajority of 62 seats, while Republicans control a minority of 18 seats.
- ^ "California Constitution of 1879, prior to any amendments" (PDF). California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Retrieved August 11, 2021.