Whistleblowers, Soda Tax Back on California’s Agenda This Week (1)

California lawmakers are facing a narrow agenda with fewer opportunities to change tax policy, including a closely-watched whistleblower law and a soda tax, when they return from a seven-week break due to the coronavirus pandemic.

When the 80-member Assembly returns Monday and the 40-member Senate returns May 11, they’ll likely drop many of the 2,000-plus bills pending before them. Instead, the short-term focus will be enacting a placeholder state budget in time for the start of the new fiscal year July 1 and moving on a shorter list of bills that focus on the state’s response to the virus and ...