By JEREMY B. WHITE, LARA KORTE, MATTHEW BROWN and RAMON CASTANOS
06/02/2023 09:07 AM EDT
Presented by SEIU-UHW
THE BUZZ: Failed Sacramento floor votes have become about as rare as an Oakland Athletics win.
The Assembly and the Senate finished churning through hundreds of bills Thursday ahead of the deadline to advance legislation from its original house. There were many narrow victories, with bills squeaking across the threshold and into the next house after a stint in “on-call” purgatory — and vanishingly few measures that perished for lack of votes.
It was the end of the line for an Assembly bill to ban consensual law enforcement searches and a Senate bill to modify charter school instruction. Some lawmakers declined to put their bills up, with authors balking at amendments or accepting that the votes might not be there to ban police dogs or campaign contributions from foreign entities. Plenty of bills faltered in the pre-floor Appropriations Committee, like proposals to accelerate emissions reduction goals or hold oil companies liable for health declines.
But time after time, contentious and strenuously opposed measures that started out short mustered the support they needed to continue — often with reluctant lawmakers averring they’d vote yes today but reserved the right to vote no later. Bills to raise healthcare workers’ wages to $25 an hour, impose a housing-funding fee on Airbnb, afford rights to college athletes, triple ...
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