Posted on 08/25/2005 6:31:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Some of the biggest bills of the year, including measures to legalize gay marriages, promote solar power, raise the minimum wage and allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, cleared hurdles Thursday in the California Legislature.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved legislation by Assemblyman Mark Leno that would require the state to recognize same-sex marriages, sending the bill to the full Senate.
The Assembly narrowly rejected a same-sex marriage bill by Leno in June, but the San Francisco Democrat amended another one of his measures that was pending in the Senate to legalize gay marriage.
If the Senate approves the amended bill, it will have to go back to the Assembly for another vote.
The Senate committee also sent the full Senate a bill by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Santa Clara, that would raise the state's minimum wage by $1 an hour, to $7.75. It would also require annual increases in the wage each year to keep up with inflation, starting in 2008.
Meanwhile, the Assembly Appropriations Committee approved a bill by Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, that would allow illegal immigrants to get California driver's licenses.
The licenses would have to be of a different color or design than driver's licenses held by other motorists and they could be used only for driving, not as widely recognized identification documents.
The bill moves to the Assembly floor.
The Assembly committee also approved a bill backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would offer subsidies to homeowners and businesses that install solar power energy systems.
But the bill was amended to establish licensing requirements for contractors that install the systems and to require payment of prevailing union wages for installation of solar systems on nonresidential property.
A spokesman for Schwarzenegger, Bill Maile, complained that the amendments changes would add to the cost of installing the solar panels, but he wouldn't say if the amendments would cause the governor to drop his support for the bill.
One bill Gil, what a boob.
The licenses would have to be of a different color or design than driver's licenses held by other motorists and they could be used only for driving, not as widely recognized identification documents.
The bill moves to the Assembly floor.
Sweep it up and throw it out. (Wonder if Arnold will sign it?)
One step forward, three steps back.
Silly Season... They don't know how to budget but boy do they know how to write laws. It's a regular playpen, time to make it a part time playpen.
So, now lawmakers are telling law abiding citizens that lawbreakers, such as people who come into our country illegally, can get a higher extra special treatment and benefits than do law abiding citizens.
Hey, crime does pay according to CA State Legislators.
How can the legislature overrule a popular referendum that said no same sex marriages?
This guy must live on another planet. He just don't get it. The people have had enough!
I see Khalifornistan's Duma is back at work.
Its what he lives for.
"The licenses would have to be of a different color or design than driver's licenses held by other motorists and they could be used only for driving,"
Good tactic by the transportation industry. They want to gut wages for most any job requiring driving. The drivers license requirement is a pesky barrier in the "free market." Maybe we'll get some chaff American truckers are paid too much...
I don't know why truckers don't protest these laws. Maybe they don't know the ramifications.
Blackouts seem to have struck their collective brains simultaneously.
The color required should be a passport cover.
No way. He has said many times he opposes drivers' licenses for illegals, and even vetoed a bill to give drivers' licenses to illegal aliens a year or two ago. The bill won't pass, and if it does, Arnold will be right there with his veto pen.
And the gay "marriage" bill is probably going to be defeated....again. If it was defeated in June, what's different about it this time?
what happened to the national standard for driver's licenses???? is that dead or what?
or are we all going to have to learn to speak Spanish to renew our licenses! LMAO
No way. He has said many times he opposes drivers' licenses for illegals, and even vetoed a bill to give drivers' licenses to illegal aliens a year or two ago. The bill won't pass, and if it does, Arnold will be right there with his veto pen.
Arnold's only stated opposition to Drivers' Licenses was related to "security" concerns. He never embraced the idea of "What part of Illegal don't you understand?"
Let's recap as to what he really said:
Schwarzenegger vetoes illegal immigrant licenses
Governor wanted bill mandating mark on IDs
AP, September 23, 2004SACRAMENTO – Citing security concerns, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday carried out his long-standing threat to veto legislation that would have allowed illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses.
"One of the most important duties of the governor of a state is to protect its citizens," Schwarzenegger said in his veto message issued yesterday.Schwarzenegger had said he would veto the bill if it didn't mandate placing a special mark on the licenses. Those who supported the bill said such a mark would amount to a "scarlet letter" and create a stigma for the license holders."Determining the true identity and history of an individual is a key component of that protection," he said. "This bill does not adequately address the security concerns that my Department of Homeland Security and I have and I cannot support it."
"If there is a marker on it, I will sign it. If there is no marker on it, I will not sign it," Schwarzenegger said.
So, now there is a special mark on the license. Are you really sure he'll veto it?
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I guess California voters were just kidding when they overwhelmingly approved Prop 22, the Defense of Marriage Act with 61% to 38% of the vote just five years ago.
liberalism is a disease.
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