{"id":430314,"date":"2026-08-12T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430314\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:08:08","slug":"the-anaheim-angels-bill-sails-through-the-california-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430314\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Anaheim Angels’ bill sails through the California legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a push toward returning Anaheim to the name of his hometown Angels, Assemblyman Avelino Valencia (D-Anaheim) last March introduced what he called the \u201cHome Run for Anaheim Act.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n

Five months later, the bill has cleared both houses of the state legislature without a single vote against it. Gov. Gavin Newsom has two months to sign the bill into law, barring a veto that would be surprising because of the lack of opposition.<\/p>\n

The bill does not mandate the Angels \u2014 playing under a Los Angeles name in Anaheim\u2019s city-owned stadium \u2014 revert to the Anaheim Angels name.<\/p>\n

However, at a time teams in all sports seek to boost profits by surrounding venues with shops, restaurants, hotels, and other attractions,<\/a> the bill provides Anaheim with an inducement for the Angels<\/a>: If the city obtains an exemption from a state law requiring affordable housing to be prioritized in any such development \u2014 potentially maximizing revenue for the team \u2014 then the team must be called the Anaheim Angels.<\/p>\n

Angels owner Arte Moreno has twice reached deals with the city to develop the land, only to see the city walk away<\/a> both times. In the last deal, he rejected the city\u2019s request<\/a> to rename the team the Anaheim Angels.<\/p>\n

Moreno has shown no public interest in a third negotiation with the city, and the Angels\u2019 current stadium lease extends through 2032<\/a>, with the team having options to extend the lease through 2038.<\/p>\n

By year\u2019s end, the city has said it anticipates the release of a long-awaited property assessment<\/a>, which is expected to show Angel Stadium needs hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades to remain viable for the long-term. The city and team may not agree on who should pay for them, and real estate development around the stadium could be part of the solution for funding a new or renovated stadium.<\/p>\n

Moreno turns 80 this week. Should he decide to sell the Angels, the city could use the exemption as leverage in discussions with a new owner. Any new owner could have leverage of his own: Once the Angel Stadium lease expires, the owner would be free to move out of Anaheim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bill required five votes between the Assembly and Senate. The final vote came on Monday on a consent calendar, the place for matters considered so routine that no legislator even wishes to discuss them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a push toward returning Anaheim to the name of his hometown Angels, Assemblyman Avelino Valencia (D-Anaheim) last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[163,68436,19753,171097,7,9,1843,8,1409,5376,34156,171099,721,171100,50957,76633,171098,4486],"class_list":["post-430314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-angels","tag-angel-stadium","tag-bill-sail","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-legislature","tag-california-news","tag-city","tag-city-owned-stadium","tag-exemption","tag-hometown-angels","tag-law","tag-leverage","tag-moreno","tag-new-owner","tag-time-team","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}