E29: Standard Time, Ballot Titles, and School Cell Phone Use

Point of Order with Assemblyman Josh Hoover

Assemblyman Josh Hoover and Senator Roger Niello discuss the Senator’s bill to enact Permanent Standard Time, how to remove partisanship from initiative ballot titles and summaries, limiting cell phone use in schools, the state’s budget predicament, California’s nation-leading unemployment rate, a federal judge’s order to audit LA homelessness programs, and the new minimum wage law taking effect this month.

Host: Assemblyman Josh Hoover

Cohost: Senator Roger Niello

Question of the Week: Should schools limit or restrict student cell phone use during the school day?

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Reducing the negative effect of cell phone use on a child’s mental health

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

Tackling the state budget shortfall

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/03/newsom-legislators-gimmicks-budget-deficit/

California now has nation’s highest unemployment rate

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/03/california-economy-newsom-speech-sluggish/

Prop. 1 barely passes

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/california-message-homelessness-newsom-00148434

Federal judge orders audit of LA homelessness programs

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-22/la-city-officials-agree-to-an-outside-audit-of-homelessness-programs

State Farm not renewing 72,000 policies

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article286963825.html

Clip of the Week: Assemblyman James Gallagher on fast food minimum wage carve out bill (1:58:50-2:00:20)

https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-floor-session-20240318

Confusion persists for on which companies must pay a higher wage

https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/03/california-minimum-wage-fast-food-workers/

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