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Government

Dec. 18, 2020

GOP says some Democrats might favor curb of gubernatorial emergency powers

AB 108, introduced Wednesday by Assemblymen Jordan Cunningham, R-San Luis Obispo, and Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, would amend the California Emergency Services Act.

A bill introduced Wednesday aims to make gubernatorial emergency orders revocable by the Legislature after 60 days.

AB 108 by Assemblymen Jordan Cunningham, R-San Luis Obispo, and Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, would amend the California Emergency Services Act. This is the 1970 law that has allowed Gov. Gavin Newsom to issue a series of orders throughout the pandemic shutting down businesses and churches and taking other steps he has sa...

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