Re: California Legislation

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

This kind of legislative behavior is obscene!

No cheers,

Maury Siskel           maury@webtexas.com

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Phil Rutherford wrote:



> Those of you following the California anti-radiation legislation may

> have noticed that Senator Romero's Senate Bill 1623 (Radiation Safety

> Act of 2002) has magically turned into Senate Bill 1970.  Why? SB 1623

> was placed on the suspense file by the Senate Appropriations Committee

> because it would have an excessive fiscal impact on the State.  All

> senate bills needed to by approved by the various Senate Committees by

> the end of May and by passed along to the Assembly.  SB 1623 failed to

> meet this deadline and was therefore in limbo not going

> anywhere. Romero had another Bill, SB 1970, on "plastic packaging

> containers" which had passed through to the Assembly.  She therefore

> replaced the original wording of SB 1970 with the Radiation Safety Act

> of SB 1623, and voila ... SB 1623 is reborn as SB 1970 in the

> Assembly.  She has effectively bypassed the required approval of the

> Senate Appropriations Committee. Should we be surprised at the

> unethical and devious way that our elected representatives act?  I

> guess not.

> ___________________ Phil Rutherford

> mail@philrutherford.com

> www.philrutherford.com

> ___________________



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