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Last night, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 54, which will require venture capital firms in the state to annually report the diversity of the founders they are backing.




Starting next year, California businesses will be prohibited from using hidden fees to attract customers with seemingly low prices.




Californians can soon say goodbye to so-called junk fees, those startling charges that appear in a transaction only when a customer is about to hit “purchase.”




California is outlawing so-called junk fees, taking aim at a common business practice that frustrates many consumers and has drawn the attention of federal regulators and the Biden administration.




Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 274 on Sunday, putting an end to suspensions for “willful defiance” for middle and high school students, as well as suspensions and expulsions due to tardiness or truancy.




Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed Healthy Meals for Kids into law, making California the first state in the nation to codify President Joe Biden’s new federal guidelines on school nutrition standards aimed at reducing sugar and salt in school meals.




Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that would require venture capital firms to report to the state the race, gender, sexual orientation and other demographic information of the founders they back.




Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Saturday signed into law a new bill that makes putting hidden charges on purchases illegal.