#ballot-initiative

#ballot-initiative

In a 9-6 vote, the council voted initial approval of an ordinance to postpone implementation of the $30 hourly minimum til 2030, instead of 2028. But L.A. City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who introduced the motion, called it "a placeholder" that allows negotiations between city officials, hotel and airport businesses and labor unions to continue in the coming days. Another vote would be needed to formally delay implementation.

Organizers from the anti-trans group "Protect Girls Sports" in Maine say that they turned in over 82,000 signatures to the state secretary of state's office to put a trans sports ban on the November ballot this year. Their ballot initiative would require the entities that govern interscholastic sports to designate all teams as male, female, or coed and allow only students assigned female at birth to participate in girls' sports.

If the Chamber and its supporters collect 546,000 valid signatures by next spring, as expected, the Building an Affordable California Act would impose a 365-day limit on environmental reviews for a wide range of projects, including new reservoirs, desalination plants, forest thinning to reduce wildfire risk, apartments, housing subdivisions, senior housing, student housing, roads, bridges, public transit, hospitals, medical centers, broadband internet, solar farms, wind farms and battery storage facilities.