Posted on 09/30/2006 5:41:39 PM PDT by calcowgirl
As of today, all legislation to be decided upon by the governor is complete. In total, 1171 bills crossed the Governor Schwarzenegger's desk. 910 bills were signed and 261 vetoed, for an overall veto average of 22%, down from his prior 24% veto-rate since taking office. There are no bills remaining on the Governor’s desk.
Since I had previously posted a thread on Homosexual Agenda - California Legislation In Process, I thought I would provide a final update for the year. Three more bills sponsored and or supported by Equality California (EQCA) were signed today, including SB 1827, Taxation: domestic partners (See detail below).
AB 1160 - Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act
Assemblymember Sally Lieber (D-San Jose)
Would amend jury instructions to state that the use of societal bias, including so-called "panic strategies," to influence any criminal trial or proceeding is not permitted. It would also appropriate $125,000 to the Office of the Attorney General to develop materials for county prosecutors explaining how panic strategies are used to encourage jurors to respond to societal bias and providing best practices for preventing bias from affecting the outcome of a trial. This legislation is named in the memory of a transgender teenager from Newark, Calif., who was attacked and killed in 2002.
Status: Signed by the Governor 09/28/06AB 1207 - Code of Fair Campaign Practices
Speaker pro Tem Leland Yee (D-San Francisco)
Would prohibit the use of any negative appeal based on sexual orientation or gender identity by candidates or campaign committees who sign the voluntary pledge provided for in the Code of Fair Campaign Practices.
Status: Signed by the Governor 09/28/06
AB 2051 - Equality in Prevention and Services for Domestic Abuse Act
Assemblymember Rebecca Cohn (D-Saratoga)
Would establish the Equality in Prevention and Services for Domestic Abuse Fund, a continuously appropriated fund to establish training and services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) victims of domestic violence. The fund would support a variety of initiatives, including an educational brochure on LGBT domestic abuse to be distributed along with domestic partnership certificates, grants to support shelters that serve LGBT victims of domestic abuse, and LGBT-specific trainings for law enforcement and domestic violence service providers.
Status: Signed by the Governor 09/30/06.
AB 2800 - Civil Rights Housing Act of 2006
Assemblymember John Laird (D-Santa Cruz)
Would standardize various housing-related nondiscrimination provisions in California law to make them consistent with the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) which prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, sex (including gender identity), marital status, sexual orientation, familial status and source of income. AB 2800 is the third bill in a series of nondiscrimination bills authored by Assemblymember Laird to modify major sections of the California Code to specify that people are protected from discrimination regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. (See also AB 2900, Employment: Discrimination, passed in 2004 and AB 1400, The Unruh Civil Rights Act of 2005 signed in November 2005)
Status: Signed by the Governor 09/28/06
AB 2920 - Older Californians Equality and Protection Act
Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)
Would amend the Welfare and Institutions Act to add actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as other categories currently protected under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), to the list of factors that the Department of Aging and Area Agencies on Aging consider when assessing the need for state services and planning how to implement them.
Status: Signed by the Governor 09/30/06.
SB 1441 - Nondiscrimination in State Programs and Activities
Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica)
Would add "sexual orientation" to the characteristics on which discrimination may not be based, in any program or activity that is conducted, operated, or administered by the state or any state agency or by any agency funded directly by the state or that receives any financial assistance from the state. The bill also would incorporate the definition of "sex" and "sexual orientation" contained in the Fair Employment and Housing Act into this provision relating to state and state-funded programs or activities, and clarify that the perception of any of the characteristics listed in the anti-discrimination statute is also covered.
Status: Signed by the Governor 08/28/06
SB 1654 - Voting: absentee ballot
Senator Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento
Existing law authorizes eligible voters to vote by absentee ballot and authorizes a county elections official to deliver an absentee ballot to the absent voter's spouse or parent. This bill would additionally authorize delivery of an absentee ballot to the absentee voter's child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling, or a person residing in the same household as the absent voter, who is 16 years of age or older. This would include any cohabitating domestic partner.
Status: Signed by the Governor 08/23/06.
SB 1827 - State Income Tax Equity Act of 2006
Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco)
Amends the tax and family codes to enable registered domestic partners to require registered domestic partners to file a personal income tax return jointly or separately by applying the standards applicable to married couples under federal income tax law.
Status: Signed by the Governor 09/30/06.
AB 606 - Safe Place to Learn Act
Assemblymember Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys)
Would require school districts to establish and publicize an antidiscrimination and anti-harassment policy that prohibits discrimination and harassment as specified under current law, including, but not limited to, actual or perceived gender identity and sexual orientation and provides penalties for school districts found to be in violation of that law, including withholding relevant state funding to school districts.
Status: Vetoed by the Governor 09/28/06. See Veto message here (PDF).
AB 1056 - Tolerance Education Pilot Program
Assemblymember Chu, D-Monterey Park
Would require the State Board of Education to develop a pilot project integrating intergroup relations and tolerance curriculum into the English and Social Science framework. Would direct the Board of Education to consult with human relations commissions and individuals and groups that are protected by California’s hate crimes legislation. Defines tolerance to mean "attitudes and behaviors that convey respect toward individuals and groups, especially those individuals and groups that have been, and continue to be, systematically and historically marginalized. Tolerance does not mean a passive allowance or indulgence of the beliefs or practices of another individual."
Status: Vetoed by the Governor 09/28/06. See Veto message here (PDF).
AB 2386 - Code of Fair Campaign Practices
Assembly Member Jenny Oropeza, D-Carson
Would require the California Secretary of State to post the Code of Fair Campaign Practices on his or her website, along with a list of candidates for state or federal office who have subscribed to the code. The passage of this bill and AB 1207 would allow Californians to know which candidates have agreed to avoid campaign practices that denigrate lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons.
Status: Vetoed by the Governor 09/28/06. See Veto message here (PDF).
AB 2510 - Pupils: survey: harassment
Assembly Member Ted Lieu, D-El Segundo
Requires local education agencies to administer a survey of the experience of pupils with harassment and bullying, including bias-related discrimination and harassment based on race, religion, disability, and actual or perceived gender identity and sexual orientation as specified in current law and require the Attorney General to prepare an annual report based on these surveys.
Status: Vetoed by the Governor 09/29/06. See Veto message here (PDF).
SB 1437 - Bias Free Cirriculum Act
Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica)
Prohibits instruction, or the adoption of any instructional material, that reflects adversely on persons due to sexual orientation. Revises the social sciences course of study to include study of the role and contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender to the development of California and the nation with emphasis on their role in contemporary society.
Status: Vetoed by the Governor 09/06/06.. See Veto message here.
He/she even left in all of the nonfunctional "Click here for veto message" link references.
Pure harrassment.
Arnold knows he can't lose. Angelides is a doctrinaire
socialist, and unattractive specimen to boot!.... Reminds me of Dukakis "Rocky the Squirrel" : )
Nothing would surprise me anymore.
I don't understand this. Is FreeRepublic no longer interested in working to combat the Homosexual Agenda?
According to the Statement by the founder of Free Republic, my post is exactly what FreeRepublic is supposed to be about!
We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc.
FO - your slavish devotion to Arnold is getting tiresome. Schwarz is at best a RINO. He's valueless, surrounds himself with valueless people (including homosexual activists) and has made his support of the "gay" agenda very clear.
I'm getting sick and tired of choosing the lesser evil.
I mean being forced to choose between the major evil and the lesser evil.
I was referring to the numerous nonfunctional links in FairOpinion's post #7.
Please explain to me how does it "fight the homosexual agenda" to help get Angelides elected, who sill SIGN all the homosexual agenda bills, that Arnold vetoed?
THAT is what's going to happen if people don't get out and vote FOR Arnold.
Why are you trying to obscure Arnold's signing of legislation which advances the homosexual agenda?
Arnold VETOED the important and worst ones, that the leftist socialist anti-family CA Dem Legislature passed.
Why aren't you grateful to Arnold for that?
And of course, as I said, Angelides WILL sign all that. So why are you campaigning for Angelides?
No, Arnold signed this bill. You're promoting the same homosexual agenda as the two candidates joined at the hips; Angelides and Arnold.
Pure and simple,, What you have witnessed on this thread is a partisan attack by a shill of the Big Tent FR Vichy branch of the Ca GOP who in a rather idiotic way chose to abuse posting rights of another poster to cover the arse of the anointed one. nothing more, nothing less, imo..
As long as FR wishes to allow the minions of the liberal elements that post away here and seek to undermine the conservative components of the Ca GOP party, there really is not much we can do except fight back.
If FR wishes to bless the Log Cabin and LGBT as being viable political elements here and desireables for participation at the forum with their won "hidden" agendas, what else can those of us who can read between the script lines do?
I can't see what the Arnold groupies are so worried about. He has a substantial lead thanks to the Rats and RINOs who support him.
Oh, But It needs to be a smashing victory, we are playing for big box office stakes these days, yaknow.
Every conservative that voted for the Trojan Horse with an R by his name had better be prepared to have those vote casts then used to give carte blanche for more of the same style of "governing" for 4 more years..
and all you'll hear is "He didn't raise taxes...or.. "He vetoed this or that."
and when the time comes that he proposes massive hikes in spending to provide his own flavor of universal healthcare as he works with his comrades in the dem party, the tax hikes will also follow,, and he will claim his hands are tied and it is what the people want and demand,, and the same FR Vichy here will back him on that as well.
But as usual, it will be the conservatives faults in that they didn't buy into his big borrowing and big bonding crap before and won't buy into his latest gambit.
So we need to keep and strengthen the resolve of the Republican seats in the assembly so we can at least fight the tax hikes to come as after being overwhelmingly re-elected , he will in no way be bound by his past "promises" some bit so hard on and continue to foist off as his best endearing feature even while we are asked to overlook his plethora of shortfallings on many other issues.
A district party conference was under way in Moscow Province in 1938. It was presided over by a new secretary of the District Party Committee, replacing one recently arrested. At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for.
Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference with every mention of his name). The hall echoed with 'stormy applause, rising to an ovation.' For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the 'stormy applause, rising to an ovation,' continued.
But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who adored Stalin.
However, who would dare to be the first to stop? The secretary of the District Party could have done it. He was standing on the platform, and it was he who had just called for the ovation. But he was a newcomer. He had taken the place of a man who'd been arrested. He was afraid! After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who would quit first!
And in the obscure, small hall, unknown to the leader, the applause went on — six, seven, eight minutes! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly — but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them?
The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Nine minutes! Ten! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but the latter dared not stop. Insanity! To the last man!
With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers!
Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved.
That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him: "Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!"
Never stop applauding 'til the
Applause sign extinguishes.. Got it. ;-)
Excellent point, and very good question.
I'm getting sorely sick and tired of having to choose between a socially liberal, big spending "Republican" who hires homosexual activists and a stark raving mad leftist.
It's getting beyond tiresome. I can see holding my nose, taking a lot of deep breaths, and forcing my self to vote for Schwarz solely because there's no decent alternative, but to rejoice in it? Be happy about it? Glorify the powermad socially liberal RINO?
I'm not psychotic and I'm not in anyone's employ, and I'm as conservative as they come. So if I would vote for Schwarz, it would be with a heavy heart and a sick feeling in my stomach. And that's "IF".
Conservatives are getting sick and tired of having to choose between the lesser of two evils.
The Schwareneggeristas are swarming and will tolerate no dissent in the FR. But there are many of us who have a seincere moral opposition to the homosexualization of our schools and our State who cannot put it aside for the mere purpose of politics.
I will NOT be voting for the RINO actor.
Arnold VETOED "the homosexualization of schools" bills.
Instead of bashing him, you should be thankful to him.
Guess what Angelides will do, if elected?
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