California State Assembly

California State Assembly
California State Legislature
Type
Type	Lower house
Term limits	6 terms (12 years)
History
New session started	December 5, 2022
Leadership
Speaker	Robert Rivas (D) since June 30, 2023
Speaker pro tempore	Jim Wood (D) since November 22, 2023
Majority Leader	Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D) since November 22, 2023
Minority Leader	James Gallagher (R) since February 8, 2022
Structure
Seats	80
Political groups	Majority:   Democratic (62) Minority:   Republican (17) Vacant:   (1)
Length of term	2 years
Authority	Article 4, California Constitution
Salary	$114,877/year + $211 per diem
Elections
Voting system	Nonpartisan blanket primary
Last election	November 5, 2024
Next election	November 3, 2026
Redistricting	California Citizens Redistricting Commission
Motto
Legislatorum est justas leges condere ("It is the duty of legislators to enact just laws.")
Meeting place
State Assembly Chamber California State Capitol Sacramento, California
Website
California State Assembly
Rules
Standing Rules of the Assembly

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate. The Assembly convenes, along with the State Senate, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.

The Assembly consists of 80 members, with each member representing at least 465,000 people. Due to a combination of the state's large population and a legislature that has not been expanded since the ratification of the 1879 Constitution,^[1] the Assembly has the largest population-per-representative ratio of any state lower house and second largest of any legislative lower house in the United States after the federal House of Representatives.

Members of the California State Assembly are generally referred to using the titles Assemblyman (for men), Assemblywoman (for women), or Assemblymember (gender-neutral). In the current legislative session, Democrats have a three-fourths supermajority of 62 seats, while Republicans control a minority of 17 seats.