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  • CA: Dozens of bills fail as Assembly panel pares spending measures

    05/25/2005 6:52:50 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 247+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 5/25/05 | Steve Lawrence - AP
    SACRAMENTO (AP) - Dozens of bills, including proposals to build more toll roads, control plant and animal pests and require satellite monitoring of high-risk sex offenders, were shelved Wednesday as an Assembly committee pared down spending measures. At the same time, the Appropriations Committee approved bills to recognize gay marriages, allow doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients and raise the state minimum wage. The committee held up more than a third of 506 bills that would have a significant impact on state spending or revenue and cut the cost of many of the measures it sent to the full Assembly....