Apr 08, 2025

Advocacy Legislature Sends Budget to Governor's Desk Ahead of June 15th Deadline

June 13, 2024 – Budget Package of 2024-25, RCRC Highlights

Apr 08, 2025

Advocacy Update on the 2024-25 State Budget

May 14, 2024 – Finance Letter Proposals for 2024025 Budget, RCRC Highlights of Interest

Apr 08, 2025

Advocacy RCRC's Rural Rundown of the Governor's May Revision of the 2024-25 State Budget

May 10, 2024 – Governor’s 2024-25 May Revise, RCRC Rural Rundown

Apr 08, 2025

Advocacy RCRC’s Rural Rundown of Governor Newsom’s 2024-25 Proposed Budget

January 10, 2024 – Governor’s 2024-25 Proposed Budget, RCRC Rural Rundown

Apr 04, 2025

Advocacy   |   Public Safety and Emergency Management Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act Reintroduced in the House

On April 2, U.S. Representatives David Valadao (R-Kings County) and Salud Carbajal (D-San Luis Obispo County) reintroduced the Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act. This bipartisan legislation

Apr 04, 2025

Advocacy Public Land Use for Housing a Key Issue in Nomination Hearing for DOI Deputy Secretary Pick Katherine MacGregor

On April 2, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Katherine MacGregor for the role of Deputy Secretary of the Interior. During the hearing

Apr 04, 2025

Advocacy   |   Community and Economic Development Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2025 Introduced in U.S. Senate

This week, Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Tina Smith (D-MN) reintroduced the Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2025 (one-pager | full text). This measure is designed to modernize Rural Housing Service programs

Apr 04, 2025

Advocacy   |   Water and Wildlife State to Increase Gray Wolf Management Efforts

Earlier this week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced increased efforts to manage the state’s gray wolf population, which has become robust and increasingly problematic

Apr 04, 2025

Advocacy   |   Air Quality Bill of the Week: Senate Bill 496 (Hurtado) – Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: Appeals Advisory Committee: Exemptions

RCRC is sponsoring Senate Bill 496, authored by Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Bakersfield), This measure creates additional pathways for local agency fleets to receive necessary exemptions under the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulations. To assist our advocacy efforts, RCRC requests that counties send letters of support

Mar 28, 2025

Advocacy   |   CEQA/NEPA Bill of the Week: Senate Bill 607 (Wiener) – California Environmental Quality Act

RCRC is co-sponsoring Senate Bill 607 (Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco) with Prosperity California, Housing Action Coalition, and the Bay Area Council. The bill includes several targeted reforms to refocus the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) on real environmental issues while preserving