Courthouse News: California Bills Race Toward Passage as Key Deadline Passes
he sun will continue to set, regardless of what California lawmakers do.
What won’t change is a move by a Golden State legislator to make standard time permanent, as that bill reaching for the horizon died Friday in a key committee.
The chairs of both the Assembly and state Senate Appropriations committees pointed to the newly revealed $12 billion budget deficit as the reason many bills wouldn’t pass Friday’s deadline to reach the floor of their respective houses.
State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, a Los Angeles Democrat, saw Senate Bill 442 pass. It’s similar to a bill of hers from last session that affects self-checkout stations. This bill would require at least one employee-staffed station in a store with self-checkout and limit someone to 15 items at a self-serve station.