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Highlights from FBAC’s 2024 Capitol Conference
Attendees at this year's FBAC Capitol Conference heard important updates on key issues from top political experts. Here's a sampling. Nevada governor gives Newsom a dose of his own medicine Political consultant Rob Stutzman, founder of Stutzman Public Affairs and a...
FBA takes positions on more bills affecting family businesses
The Family Business Association continues to review and analyze the 2,124 bills that have been proposed this year by state lawmakers, along with dozens of bills from 2023 that are still under consideration. A number of these bills would have significant impacts on...
FBA takes positions on bills
FBA is monitoring the 2,124 bills state lawmakers introduced this year (not to mention hundreds of measures introduced in 2023 and still alive in the Legislature) and has taken positions on three priority bills for family businesses so far. FBA is opposed to SB 1116,...
FBA Chairman shares insights with Family Enterprise USA
Ken Monroe, the longtime president of Holt of California and for several years the chairman of FBA, recently sat down for a video interview with Pat Soldano, president of Family Enterprise USA, the advocacy group representing family businesses in Washington, DC....
Court ruling just another reason to support PAGA reform
A recent ruling by the California Supreme Court is just one more reason why family businesses are working to pass the California Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act in November. Doing so will be by far the best shot at reforming how the state deals with Labor...
5 FBA members featured in business magazine
Comstock's Magazine, a leading business publication covering the greater Sacramento area, recently included articles about five FBA members in its annual family business issue. You can learn more about Ceronix, an Auburn-based company that pivoted to become a leader...
Two family businesses join FBA
Two more family businesses recently joined FBA – the only organization working solely on behalf of family businesses at the California state capitol. The new businesses are: Jackson Properties. The Sacramento-based company was founded in 1974 and specializes in...
FBA Names Senator Seyarto as its Legislator of the Year
The Family Business Association of California this week awarded Sen. Kelly Seyarto, R-Murrieta, with its Legislator of the Year award for his leadership in efforts to restore the ability of parents to pass along homes and business properties to their children without...
Running a family business in California isn’t easy, but local organizations are here to help
Editor's note: This column first appeared in Comstock's magazine in Sacramento. It is part of a package of articles about family businesses, including several profiling FBA members. The line from “The Godfather,” “It’s not personal, it’s strictly business,” does not...
Opinion: Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 could be the final straw for many California family-owned businesses
Our guest contributor says that many family-owned businesses may leave California or sell out to larger corporations if Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 becomes law.
FBA working to defeat ACA 1
Local governments want to make it easier to raise your taxes by reducing the majority needed from voters from two-thirds to just 55%. If passed by the Legislature this month, ACA 1 could appear on the 2024 statewide ballot. In an op-ed in the Sacramento Business...
Family businesses are trusted. Here’s why.
Edelman’s annual Trust Barometer reported earlier this year that worldwide, business was the only institution – not government, not NGOs, not media – that was trusted by the 32,000 respondents from 28 countries. (Trust was defined as 60-100% trusting that sector.) The...