Bills that quietly failed include proposals to help low-income children, curb gun ownership and aid renters.
Democratic leaders at the California Capitol killed nearly 300 bills on Thursday during the ritual fast-paced culling of legislation in the mysterious “suspense file.”
Bills that quietly failed include proposals that would have benefited low-income children, further curbed gun ownership and helped some renters afford a rising cost of living.California lawmakers typically introduce about 2,000 bills a year, so the suspense file is a way to thin the heap. The Senate puts bills in the suspense file if they would cost the state at least $50,000 and the Assembly puts them there if they cost at least $150,000.
“It is a different time that we have to operate in,” Chris Holden , chair of the Assembly Committee on Appropriations, said of the budget deficit after Thursday’s hearing.that died would have cost between $10 million and $15 million a year to allow more people who are wrongfully convicted of crimes to seek compensation from the state after they’re exonerated.
Other anti-poverty measures that failed include a bill that would have increased the minimum payments to families under the California Earned Income Tax Credit and a Republican bill to increase tax credits meant for renters — legislation that hasDisappointed advocates had urged the state to fill in the gaps left by federal programs that were launched in the pandemic and have since expired.
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