Back جمعية ولاية كاليفورنيا Arabic Asamblea Estatal de California AST California State Assembly German Πολιτειακή Συνέλευση της Καλιφόρνια Greek Asamblea Estatal de California Spanish Assemblée de l'État de Californie French האספה המדינתית של קליפורניה HE Majelis Negara Bagian California ID Assemblea dello Stato della California Italian カリフォルニア州議会代議院 Japanese
California State Assembly | |
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| California State Legislature | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
Term limits | 6 terms (12 years) |
| History | |
New session started | December 5, 2022 |
| Leadership | |
Speaker pro tempore | |
Majority Leader | |
Minority Leader | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 80 |
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Political groups | Majority: Democratic (62) Minority: Republican (17) Vacant: (1) |
Length of term | 2 years |
| Authority | Article 4, California Constitution |
| Salary | $114,877/year + $211 per diem |
| Elections | |
| Nonpartisan blanket primary | |
Last election | November 5, 2024 |
Next election | November 3, 2026 |
| 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 | |
| California State Assembly | |
| Rules | |
| Standing Rules of the Assembly | |
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 17 seats.
- ^ "California Constitution of 1879, prior to any amendments" (PDF). California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Retrieved August 11, 2021.