Our Appropriations Committee, of which I am a member, met to do the Suspense File today.
Some of the more interesting Dem bills moving forward to our floor:
AB 583, taxpayer funded election campaigns
AB 1334, taxpayer funded prophylactic devices [you don’t want any more details] for prisoners, in prison
AB 43, allowing same sex marriage
AB 374, assisted suicide
AB 355, register to vote [and vote] on election day
AB 722, incandescent light bulb ban [modified to require lower electricity usage per bulb, essentially banning them with goals that most bulbs, esp. lower wattage bulbs, likely cannot attain]
Bills "held in committee"
AB 755, the Sally Lieber no-spanking bill
Republican bills held:
AB 1161, requiring the state to resell land taken by eminent domain, first back to it’s original owner, or the open market, if it hasn’t been used for it’s intended public purpose in 5 or 7 years.
AB 165, creating Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives, to coordinate volunteer and charitable organizations with state agencies for efficient help for the needy.
AB 1171, penalties for deviant behavior with corpses
AB 803, eliminate statute of limitations for sex crimes with minors.
There were over bills 500 on the file. "Suspense" being a Democrat vehicle to let good Republican bills [or Dem bills even Dems are too embarrassed to deal with] wither away quietly. Just another beautiful day in the neighborhood……