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Favorite quote: Complicating matters, PG&E employs (new bill author Assemblymember) Quirk’s son. Witness the magic that is CA Democrats' "gut and amend" pro
by masonic 8y ago
Favorite quote:
Complicating matters, PG&E employs (new bill author Assemblymember) Quirk’s son.
Witness the magic that is CA Democrats' "gut and amend" process for yourselves (red type is the original bill contents):
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB33 http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareC...
- nerdponx 8y agoSo this was a bill about plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and they just re-wrote the whole thing to be about wildfires? What's the point?
- jdavis703 8y agoI'm assuming it's a bargaining chip that lawmakers can use. E.g., it you vote for this thing I care about, you can rewrite my bill (that probably wasn't going anywhere anyways) for your own ends. Maybe someone with more insight in to state politics could weigh in...
- nerdponx 8y agoRight. But why not just make it a different bill?
- mjcl 8y agoIf you’re looking for fast legislation, you have to ‘gut’ an existing bill because the CA constitution requires a 30 day wait after you introduce a bill (with an exception for budget bills).
- masonic 8y agoCA constitution requires a 30 day wait Where do you see that in the CA Constitution? Either house can have rules about that, but such rules are routinely waived by the Democrat leadership.
- masonic 8y agoOne point of the strategy is that the murdered bill number already traversed one or more required committees that the bill rewriter wants to avoid.