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Jottings: California State Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee 4/29/2025

April 30, 2025 3:03 pmApril 30, 2025 3:03 pm

At 9:01am on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 the 13-member California State Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee was called to order in Sacramento without a quorum. Assemblywoman Diane Papan (D-San Mateo) is Chairwoman. She may have heard a sigh of...

Faltering California High-Speed Rail Pushes Private Funding To Fill Massive $7-$11 Billion Funding Gap

April 30, 2025 1:24 pmApril 30, 2025 1:24 pm

California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri announced Wednesday that he will be pushing the state to start accepting more private funding for the rail project, especially with a $7 billion funding gap set to come into play in mid-2026,...

LAX Foodservice Employee Files Federal Charges Against Labor Union over Intimidation, Harassment

April 30, 2025 10:53 amApril 30, 2025 11:39 am

An employee of Flying Food Group, a foodservice provider to commercial flights at Los Angeles International Airport, has hit the Unite Here Local 11 union with federal charges. The employee, Kenia Solano, maintains that union officials and agents have targeted...

CA Democrats Predictably Kill Sen. Grove’s Bill to Secure Women’s Prisons from Predatory Trans ‘Women’

April 30, 2025 2:55 amApril 30, 2025 2:51 pm

As the Globe predicted, Democrats killed Senator Shannon Grove’s good bill to require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to secure women’s prisons from predatory transgenders claiming to be women for the transfer to a less secure prison. Grove’s...

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Collection of Bank Items

April 30, 2025 2:30 amApril 30, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Commercial Code, in Division 2, Chapter 3, deals with the collection of items for payor banks. Section 4301 states that, if a payor bank settles for a demand item other than a documentary draft presented otherwise than for immediate...

Welfare Fraud Decriminalization Bill Passes Senate Committee

April 29, 2025 8:25 pmApril 29, 2025 8:25 pm

A bill that would decriminalize criminal penalties for attempted welfare fraud for cases under $950 and eliminate criminal penalties for overpayments from administrative errors or infractions continued to move up in the Senate this month, with an Appropriations Committee vote...

Bill to Keep Biological Men Out of Women’s Prisons Hearing Tuesday

April 29, 2025 9:13 amApril 29, 2025 9:19 am

Last month Democrats killed two bills by Republican Assembly members Kate Sanchez and Bill Essayli to disallow trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports – AB 89 and AB 844. Despite plenty of testimony from female athletes about...