The players
80 Assemblymembers. 40 Senators. The leadership, the committees, and the power centers — who holds the gavel, who moves your bill, and where the real decisions happen.
Leadership
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Committees
Committees are where bills live or die. The chair controls the agenda; the consultants write the analyses everyone reads.
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Rules (both houses) — bill referrals, the gatekeepers. Appropriations — the fiscal gate; the suspense file quietly kills hundreds of bills a year. Budget — the state's spending plan. Judiciary — where legal-complexity bills get their hardest questions. Your bill's policy committee is its first trial; Appropriations is its second.
Full roster
Search the full roster, then open any member's dossier in the research desk.