Maybe This Will Cheer You Up: Assembly Creates Happiness Committee

Former Speaker Anthony Rendon says it will ‘compel us to rethink how, and why, we create policy.’

Farmworkers and their supporters gather outside the office of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount, after the Assembly failed to vote on a farmworker overtime bill in Sacramento, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2016. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

The California Assembly has created the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy to focus on what makes people happy.

Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, a former long-term Assembly speaker, will chair the committee, he announced Feb. 28.