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Prior to interrupting the spring vacation last week, the state -owned senate and assembly budget loan committees moved a total of 115 bills to their “tensions”. What follows is a rather opaque process This can end with approximately one third of these bills killed – far from public opinion and with little to any debate.
Calm Ryan Sabalow He explains that every bill that is calculated to cost at least $ 50,000 is placed in the voltage file. Next month and again in August, budget loan committees will either move the bills from the “tension” so that they can pass through the legislature, or to keep them – essentially kill these measures for the session.
Last summer committees split About one -third of 830 voltage billsS The process can be quick and with a little recorded voice can be difficult for both the public and for the deputies who are the author of the measures to know why the bills were caught.
- Assembly Corey JacksonDemocrat from the Moreno Valley, whose Tax Credit Bill He died last year in the tension file: “The way we treat the budget loan process is an undemocratic process; I believe it is a corrupt process.”
That summer, other legislators and defenders accused the administration of governor Gavin Newo in Inflating the costs of the cost of healthcare bills To block them through the voltage process. A spokesman for the administration said the request was “outrageous and inaccurate”.
Lorena Gonzalez, former chairman of the Committee on Budget Loans of the Assembly and current President of the California Labor Federation, does not consider the process of tension for the secretive. She said anyone could review fiscal analyzes and commissions comments.
The bills set in tension last week included measures that would allow homeless students to live from their cars; Required food sold in prison machines at a price Retail; and create California Latin American CommissionS
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Conflict of interest?
Lieutenant Governor in California and 2026. Governor Hope Eleni Kunalakis has possessions of real estate that shed her hundreds of thousands of dollars last yearS Although it is not forbidden to earn money from these properties, profit can potentially cause conflict of interest if it wins its offer for the highest office in California, Calmatters’ reports Alexey KossefS
In addition to owning a share in grazing land, solar fields and properties in Northern California and the Central Valley, Kounalakis receives income from three buildings around the state capitol, where the interest groups, lobbyists and others with business in government conduct their activities.
In a statement, a spokesman for the Kounalakis campaign said that if she was elected governor, she would put “any assets that can present a conflict of interest in blind confidence.”
But John Pelisero, director of the government ethics at Santa Clara University, said Kounalakis would be well advised to distance himself from these assets as Governor of Lieutenant.
- Gameplay: “If she takes advantage of lobbying, then the optics for this is anxious. It would be reasonable for every public member to look at this and say,” This is weird. “
NEWSOM allows money to prevent fire
Three months after deadly fires passed through Los Angeles County and killed 30 people, the Newsom government signed legislation on Monday to provide More than $ 170 million state funding to prevent wild fireswrites Calmatters’ Alejandro LazoS
Money comes from suggestion 4, a A $ 10 billion bond measure The voters approved in November. Six conservations operating within the Governor’s Resources Agency will receive the money to manage vegetation and thinning of forests around their regions. At least half of the money will go for conservation in southern California, while one third will go to conservation in Sierra Nevada.
The Governor also issued Monday Executive Order This enables projects funded by the new legislation to benefit from an emergency proclamation in March. Proclamation Place a temporary pause throughout the country Regarding certain provisions of two key environmental laws in California to accelerate fire prevention efforts. Some environmental groups criticize the order.
- Exhaust wolfDirector of Climate Science at the Center for Biodiversity: “This funding is doubled for the destruction of forests, not investing in real fire safety measures such as home hardening in communities.”
And last: restored funding to study dementia
California voices
In addition to the “soft costs”, ” As fees for the development of local authorities, time is the main reason why it is so expensive to develop dwellings in California, Jason Ward writesConditioner of the Center for Homes and Homelessness.
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