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Small business
Cocktails, Cards, and Common Sense: Three Small Business Bills that Keep California Open After Dark
California's restaurants, nightlife venues, gaming-related businesses, and neighborhood hospitality operators are part of the state's regulated entertainment economy, and they need practical policy rather than more red tape. The Capitol Business Alliance is supporting AB 2173, AB 2663, and AB 2731 because each improves regulatory transparency, extends alcohol-to-go flexibility, or reduces barriers for local restaurants seeking liquor licenses.
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Small business
Rebuilding Small Business Political Power in California
Small business owners are restaurant owners, contractors, bookkeepers, retailers, salon owners, builders, and family businesses: the people signing the lease, hiring the employee, and absorbing the cost when Sacramento passes another mandate without understanding what it means on the ground. On giving them a standing political voice.
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Housing
California's Housing Experiment: How AB 2011 Opened the Door, and Why AB 1815 May Help Builders Walk Through It
California's housing crisis is a feasibility problem as much as a permitting problem. AB 2011 sped up approvals for mixed-use projects on commercial land in 2022; the follow-on measure would do the same for missing-middle townhome ownership, with a wage standard for qualifying projects. Whether that is the balance between worker protection and production that inland communities need.
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