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    02/10/10 - Sen Local Government

  • SB 85 (Cogdill): Local government finance.
  • SB 841 (Committee on Local Government): Validations.
  • SB 842 (Committee on Local Government): Validations.
  • SB 843 (Committee on Local Government): Validations.

    • most popular bills

    1. SB 94 (Calderon and Corbett and Steinberg): Mortgage loans.
    2. AB 761 (Charles Calderon): Mobilehomes: rent control.
    3. AB 111 (Niello): Taxation: cancellation of indebtedness: mortgage debt forgiveness.
    4. SB 97 (Calderon and Correa): Taxation: cancellation of indebtedness: mortgage debt forgiveness.
    5. AB 390 (Ammiano): Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act.
    6. ABX3 23 (Arambula and Coto): Unemployment insurance: extended benefits.
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    8. SB 572 (Leno): Harvey Milk Day: official designation.
    9. SB 680 (Huff and Romero): School attendance: interdistrict transfers.
    10. AB 23 (Fletcher and Jones): Cal-COBRA: premium assistance.
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    Cta Drops $500,000 Into Effort To Repeal Corporate Tax Benefits  
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    Meanwhile, from our Slouching Toward November Files, the California Teachers Association dropped a half-a-mil into the fight to repeal corporate tax loopholes. Tory Van Oot reports,
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    Dan Walters: Left And Right Both Hammer Centrist Maldonado  
    sacbee.com
    The Legislature's ideological polarization is often cited by critics – correctly – as one of its major deficiencies.
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    Dan Walters looks at the abuse Maldonado is taking from the right and the left.
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    The Daily Roundup From Capitol Weekly  
    capitolbasement.com
    The good news for Abel Maldonado is that his nomination is still alive. But  momentum to block his nomination among Assembly Democrats increased Monday, as three Democrats held a press conference calling for his rejection. Today, the Assembly Rules committee will finally hear Maldo, before moving him to the ful floor for a vote. In the Senate, today's big Governmental Organization committee hearing on Internet poker is the main event, with opposing tribal chairman set to testify this afternoon.
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    Proposed Oil Tax Divides Education Leaders  
    Local @ contracostatimes.com
    An East Bay lawmaker wants to tax oil pumped from the California ground and give the proceeds to colleges and universities, but the proposal has run afoul of the very people it was supposed to help.
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    Despite Budget Crisis, State Spent $75 Million On Vehicles, Office Furniture - Latimes.com  
    Patrick McGreevy @ latimes.com
    Even as the state grappled with a budget crisis last year, bureaucrats spent nearly $45 million on new vehicles, almost $30 million on new furniture and more than $2 million on off-site meetings and conferences, a legislative panel has found.
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    Health Care Department Breaches Privacy  
    sacbee.com
    The Department of Health Care Services said Monday it has breached the privacy of 49,352 people who receive adult day-care services from the state.
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    Brown Questions Iran Assets In Pension Funds  
    sacbee.com
    Attorney General Jerry Brown said Monday that CalPERS and CalSTRS aren't complying with a state law requiring them to end their investments in Iran.
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    Obama Health Summit Sets Up A Showdown - Latimes.com  
    James Oliphant and Noam N. Levey @ latimes.com
    President Obama's call for a televised bipartisan meeting to discuss stalled healthcare legislation comes as his party unfolds a strategy to force Republicans to put policy ideas on the table that Democrats believe they can exploit in the fall elections.
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    Related stories: Obama health summit sets up a showdown, Obama Invites GOP to Summit on Health Care, Obama To Invite GOP To Healthcare Summit - Latimes.com, Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care, Villaraigosa Sets Sights On City Council's Pet Projects Funds - Latimes.com
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    'thicket Of Regulations' Is Killing Jobs, Fiorina Says  
    DUANE W. GANG @ pe.com
    Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, is seeking the Republican nomination in June and fighting for the chance to take on incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in the general election.
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    Commentary: Poizner Should Reconsider Creation Of His Own "Do Not Invest" List For Private Insurance Companies [By Jon Fleischman - Publisher - Flash Report]  
    flashreport.org
    I admire the passion of Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. Having gotten to spend a lot of time with him over the last five years or so, I know him as someone who really pours his heart and soul into just about everything he does. I figure it ta…
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    Hospitals Suffer As Health Care Legislation Stalls - Nytimes.com  
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    Lawmakers Lash Out At Edd  
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    Union Expense: Bus Driver’s Salary $159K  
    HPA, misbah @ hoguenews.com
    Why we allow unions to dance dirty with government workers' employment contracts AND use their monetary influence and power to play politically is beyond me. The Hatch Act in Washington DC prohibits ...
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    With Cuts Looming, Some L.A. City Council Members Use Off-budget Funds To Boost Their Salary Accounts  
    latimes.com
    Members of the Los Angeles City Council will renew their efforts to address the city's budget problems Tuesday as they consider a three-year plan to deal with the deficit. But as they've debated how to whittle down the city's costs,...
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    Governor of New York faces an avalanche of woes  
    Geraldine Baum @ latimes.com
    Democrat David Paterson, who is battling the legislature over budget deficits and has been asked not to run again by President Obama, now is denying Internet rumors involving sex and drugs.
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