As it stands AB1576 has been announced by the Senate Appropriations committee as “a candidate for suspense” what thats means is
A unique feature of the Appropriations Committee is the Suspense File, to which the committee sends any bill with an annual cost of more than $150,000 (any fund). Suspense File bills are then considered at one hearing after the state budget has been prepared and the committee has a better sense of available revenue. No testimony is presented – author or witness – at the Suspense File hearing.
So when the FSC tells you that the bill is dead at that point they are completely wrong, it could be passed after the state budget has been prepared. Tt is unlikely that it will pass at that point but it isn’t yet dead.
After the recess in about 30 minutes Assemblyman Hall will likely argue that the bill will fall under the 150K cap and therefore is not a candidate for suspense. The Chairman of the finance committee will probably be opposed to the bill and Padilla is pretty much an automatic vote to send the bill to suspense. Itll be interesting to watch what happens next the link to watch is below.
This committee is almost certainly the only real hurdle the bill has left, if it passes from here it goes to a full vote on the Senate Floor Then to the governors desk for his signature.
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AB 1576 What Will Happen http://t.co/tnlCPvVbzD
I expect Hall will repeat earlier comments that costs will only be incurred with complaints and this has been addressed with the restoration of funding to OSHA where any additional costs would be offset with fines.
No clue if this will keep chair from tossing this into suspense.
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Rand Martin just told us what’s happening…bill is going to suspense but it is scheduled for discussion next week. As well as ongoing language alignment with Cal/OSHA and Labor Agency.
Martin & Hall both spoke to urge Chair to move it out of suspense despite knowing it is headed there.
Bill is slated for meetings with Author, sponsor and opposition prior to suspense file dump next week. Chair mentioned Thursday.
Was surprised Finance didn’t have a file with the long history on the bill.
Unfortunately the author and sponsor will not address directly the lines of bullshit the industry is putting out there which are now being accepted as truth. Even the LA Times just ran an editorial that was right out of the industry talking points.
Despite what manyhave said, the FSC has stuck to its lines of bullsit, and have accomplished in getting that bullshit aceepted as if its true. They had no other choice, and the AHF and Hall made it easy for them by not publicly attacking the industry talking points head on, and asking in committee meetings to see any documentation of these claims. 650 performer signatures on a petition, when APAC claims to have just over 100 members? “Tens of thousands” of jobs, “billions” in state revenue,,,they still unnaed 30 million dollar company that has moved to Vegas…..AHF and Hall let all of this go unquestioned, while the mainstream media and organizations never question the accuracy of any of this. The big lie is now the truth, way to go Weinstien, you have snatched defeat out of the hands of victory.
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The sponsor & author aren’t addressing the discrepancies in places like the LA Times…they know better than to depend on a publication friendly to the opposition and they are likely using the direct route to garner support where it matters…voting senators who haven’t committed one way or another.
During their talks with uncommitted senators and appropriations committee members they are surely referencing other publications and arguments like…do we really want to cater to an industry threatening to leave but proving they’ll go underground with their ‘reduced permits’ evidence?
People would be surprised at how different legislative ‘elevator speeches’ are from written articles or how adept professional lobbyists are at responding head on to..deny, deflect, distort etc with verifiable data coupled with a contact known to the target for follow up.
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