“You can’t escape the accountability of tomorrow by evading it as we speak.”
Abraham Lincoln
There are solely 10 working days left within the 2023/24 Legislative session and wouldn’t it shock anybody that there are nonetheless roughly 780 payments which have but to be acted upon?
There are plenty of phrases that I may use to explain the California legislature and “planning forward” positive isn’t certainly one of them. I doubt that there’s an elected physique more adept at kicking the can down the street than the oldsters that sit within the fancy chairs on the Capitol.
As of this very second, with lower than two weeks earlier than the gavel comes down and the Legislature adjourns, there are near 800 payments presently awaiting motion (there could possibly be extra however my eyes began to harm at 360). There are over 400 payments earlier than the Senate Appropriations Committee alone and over 300 Senate payments in Meeting Appropriations.
That is nuts, however that is what happens yearly. It’s by design…
Procrastinating is a strong device of elected officers. Payments are routinely “put over” till the following listening to – and the following. This occurs the second coverage committees start to satisfy within the early spring and continues proper by means of to when fiscal payments are despatched to Appropriations (the place the problems of prices are alleged to be debated). In any case, the much less time there’s to think about the deserves – and prices of a invoice – the much less time there’s for debate and argument. There’s little gumption to drill down on a single invoice in the midst of a whole lot and it’s far simpler to get a invoice to slide by means of the method when members and employees are drained, hungry and don’t need to learn volumes of analyses.
Nearly all of the payments GOC is monitoring are presently on the Appropriations Committees “Suspense File” (the place the payments robotically go if the prices are above a particular threshold). They are going to be voted off with zero presentation or testimony and there shall be no debate – regardless of the precise prices of the laws. Think about – no dialog on the huge prices of SB 2’s “delicate locations”, or the monetary hit which might be brought on by AB 1133 which mandates the Division of Justice create new “standardized” CCW curriculum. Nor will there be any dialogue on the prices of microstamping necessities.
We are going to know late Friday (9/1) what payments made the reduce and which of them didn’t – we’d wish to assume we’d hear the loss of life rattle on every one however on the finish of the day, we’re realists. Keep tuned – we’ll be reporting on these payments that can make their last look on the Senate and Meeting Flooring earlier than the deadline of September 14, 2023.
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AB 28 | Gabriel (D)
Creates expansive, new excise tax on each firearms/ammunition bought in California.
AB 574 | Jones-Sawyer (D)
Mandates gun consumers affirm/verify possession of all owned firearms on DROS kind.
AB 725 | Lowenthal (D)
Redefines a firearm to incorporate frames, receivers and precursor elements for the needs of reporting misplaced or stolen weapons.
AB 1089 |Gipson (D)
Prohibits the sale, buy or possession of a CNC milling machine that has the first or meant objective of producing firearms.
AB 1133 | Schiavo (D)
Requires DOJ to create a state-approved and standardized curriculum for CCWs.
AB 1406 | McCarty (D)
Permits DOJ to delay supply of a firearm for 30 extra days.
AB 1420 | Berman (D)
Grants DOJ extra authority to examine and assess fines on gun sellers.
AB 1483 | Valencia (D)
Expands the 30-day prohibition on the acquisition of firearms to incorporate precursor elements.
AB 1587 | Ting (D)
Mandates retailers to assign a particular “code” indicating gun purchases.
AB 1598 | Berman (D)
Requires DOJ to replace security check kind with “dangers” of proudly owning a gun.
SB 2 | Portantino (D)
Massively restricts the power of CCW holders to hold in most areas of the state by establishing “delicate locations” standards.
SB 368 | Portantino (D)
Mandates that short-term transfers of a firearm for storage to be restricted to that of a licensed vendor to forestall a possible suicide.
SB 452 | Blakespear (D)
Prohibits a licensed firearms vendor from promoting, providing on the market a semiautomatic pistol except it has been verified as microstamping-enabled.
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