AB 2948, The Democrats "We’re Still Apoplectic That George W. Bush Won in 2000" bill passed 48-30. It would further shift Electoral College power away from what those "pesky" Founders thought would be fair to small states and rural areas, in presidential elections. This proposal even more so marginalizes places like the North State and boils the campaign down to the 11 most populated states having the number of Electors to decide the presidential election under this bizarre coalition.
What if the 11 biggest states are all "blue" ones?
The bill, SB 1578, requiring dog owners to not tether dogs for more than 3 hours at a time [the subject of numerous calls from farmers, ranchers, people with dogs and without huge yards] was stopped temporarily 40-33, with reconsideration today.
A bill [SB 927] to tax $30, every container that goes in and out of Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach scraped by 42-35, putting California exports at a further disadvantage and raising the costs of all the imported stuff to consumers.
A "locomotive air impact mitigation fee",SB 459, for the South Coast was stopped cold 24-42. This would’ve violated the voluntary agreement that railroads entered into to work to achieve higher air quality and has been getting good results, without the meat axe of gov’t regulation. Careful, government speak with forked tongue!
Workers Comp goes backwards. SB 815 passed 44-33 that puts us back into the 2001 scenario where comp rates doubled in the year after Davis signed bad legislation during that go-round.