In California, we each have two State Legislators that represent us on State matters — one is our State Senator and the other is our Assemblyman. If you don’t know who yours is, you can find them here
The State Legislative cycle goes like this: Mid-September through December, the legislators take suggestions from their constituents and mull them over. They take the ideas that they like best and they draft legislature that they introduce in January. Then from January through September, all the legislators debate the various bills that were introduced in January. At the beginning of September, all the bills get final votes. And then the cycle starts again!
So if you have any ideas about new legislature that you’d like to see enacted, or changes to be made to existing legislature, now is the time to contact your representatives.