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Tag: gut and amend bills

Can Proposition 54 and the 72-house in Print Rule Be Waived?

June 25, 2024   10:00 amJune 25, 2024   10:01 am
Proposition 54, which was enacted by the voters at the November 2016 general election, adopted constitutional and statutory changes dealing with bill amendments and recordings of legislative proceedings. The proponents of Prop. 54 (in ballot arguments) were specifically concerned with...
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Frequently Asked Questions about Gut-and-Amend Bills

January 5, 2024   2:35 amJanuary 5, 2024   2:36 am
What is a “gut-and-amend bill”? According to the California Office of Legislative Counsel, these measures are “when amendments to a bill remove the current contents in their entirety and replace them with different provisions.” What legislative rule is invoked with...
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Union Strikes on the Backs of California Taxpayers

September 14, 2023   3:24 pmSeptember 14, 2023   3:24 pm
If unions are not covering their members on strike, then maybe Californians need to ask themselves, “where is that money going?” Union work, the long protected method of employment from the “evil corporate empires.” Depending on your experience, you may...
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California Lawmakers Gut Good Bill, Replace with Horrible Bill

June 22, 2023   7:06 amJune 22, 2023   12:38 pm
Earlier this week, Assembly Bill 1352 by Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) on individualized county childcare subsidy plans was gutted. Berman’s bill had already gone through a few committees, and was voted on by the full Assembly without a single...
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How Is a Bill ‘In Print’ When It Will Be Amended Days Later?

August 28, 2022   8:08 amAugust 28, 2022   8:14 am
Those closely monitoring the California Legislative Information website (found at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) during the final weekend before the Legislature adjourns in 2022 Session found an interesting phenomenon: Senate Bills were posted with amendments, but readers saw the following at the top...
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Sen. Scott Wiener: Open Bay Area Safe Drug Use Sites, and High-Density Housing

December 9, 2020   3:35 pmDecember 10, 2020   5:57 pm
From the “you can’t make this stuff up” file, Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) wants to allow San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles to open “safe-drug-use” sites – at a time when the entire state state is in lockdown –...
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Sen. Wiener’s SB 50 is Back; Will Strip Zoning and Land-Use Requirements From Any Type of Housing

June 22, 2019   9:29 amJune 24, 2019   12:43 pm
Unable to accept the killing of his controversial housing/zoning bill SB 50, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has found the backdoor answer to reviving it: Wiener has replaced the language in two other bills with most of his SB 50...
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