A new committee in the Legislature holds its first hearing to figure out how to make residents happier. Chairperson Anthony Rendon says he’s wanted to take on the topic since watching the documentary “Happy” 14 times in two days.
Assemblymember Anthony Rendon, chairperson of the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes, listens to a speaker during a hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 12, 2024.is committed to trying, though he puts his own happiness at only two out of 10 .At the committee’s first meeting today, Rendon said he was inspired to take on the topic after watching the 2011 documentary “Happy” 14 times in a two-day period.
And while Rendon told CalMatters that not all ways to boost happiness would be a “government directive,” a country that ranks high in happiness with a strong social safety net “pretty much jives with my political ideology.”
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