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.
Just think, that by voting for Arnold, you are preventing a stark raving mad REAL socialist leftist who will demolish everthing dear to you, from becoming governor of CA.
Angelides is as left as they come. He and the leftist Legislature would destroy CA for sure.
Arnold vetoed almost a third of the the Dems bills.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707482/posts?page=27#27
It's the CA Legislature that we need to worry about.
Without Arnold to veto at least some of the worst bills, they will pass and Angelides will sign all of the worst bills, including universal healthcare.
That's what you said three years ago, before the biggest deficit in history, before the unconstitutional borrowing, before the Sierra Nevada land grab, before the Global Warming nonsense, before the billions in stem-cell research, solar roofs, hydrogen highways.... Yep... Save me from the socialists!
Arnold vetoed almost a third of the the Dems bills.
LOL. Which means he approved 2/3 of the Dem bills! Arnold signed almost half (6 out of 13) of the Chamber of Commerce "job killer" bills. He wasn't even loyal to them! He did however sign 100% of the Sierra Club's top 2006 legislative priorities and 80% of the Homosexual legislation sponsored by Equality California.
Are you saying that it would have been better if Bustamante had won?
Bustamante Shmustabante! blah, blah, blah.
At that time the choice was Bustamante or Arnold. NOw the choice is Angelides or Arnold.
It seems you wanted Bushtamante then and are still lamenting that he lost and want Angelides now.
No... he didn't.
We now have (in SB 1441) a mandated restriction of free speech in ALL state-affiliated organizations, including colleges who receive CalGrants and pre-schools who receive State education assistance funds (CalWorks) for any of their students.
Did you READ the actual text of SB1441?
"SECTION 1. Section 11135 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
11135. (a) No person in the State of California shall, on the
basis of race, national origin, ethnic group identification,
religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, or disability, be
unlawfully denied full and equal access to the benefits of, or be
unlawfully subjected to discrimination under, any program or activity
that is conducted, operated, or administered by the state or by any
state agency, is funded directly by the state, or receives any
financial assistance from the state. Notwithstanding Section 11000,
this section applies to the California State University."
As I said, he vetoed the really important once, that would have taught all about homosexuals in schools. SB1441 is fairly innocuous, just added sexual orientation to the list of things state agencies and state funded organizations shouldn't discriminate against.
(SMACKING FOREHEAD)... You are purposefully forgetting that we had a perfectly sound conservative Republican in Tom McClintock and the California GOP blew it BIG TIME!
Bustamente was NEVER an option for California Conservatives, but McClintock WAS! You blew it! You blew it! You blew it! and now you're pretending that you had no option!
I will NOT reward my party for abandonning their principles and the candiaten who best represented them in favor of a Hollywood actor who they thought could get them some good PR. Arnold is NO REAGAN! You were DUPED by the RINO of all RINO's!
I can read... can you read between the lines?
There is no "between the lines". It's very clear and very limited.
As I said, the really bad ones where the other 3-4 he VETOED.
And, as I said, Angelides will sign them all, if he becomes governor.
If you stay home and don't get out and vote FOR Arnold, you are enabling Angelides and the leftist CA legislature to really promote the homosexual agenda you claim to be against. Look in the mirror and you'll see a potential promoter of the homosexual agenda, higher taxes, universal healthcare and so on.
You're digging it deep, FairOpinion... you must know that McClintock is groomed for Gov by the CaGOP in 2010.
To equate him to Perot is more the politically ridiculous. Your suggesting that all of us who voted for the only conservative candidate in the last election were equivalent to the Clinton electors... except that 62.1% of this State voted for a republican in the recall election.
13.5% of us voted our conscience, instead of voting what the media and the power-brokers were telling us to vote.
If everyone who believed that McClintock was the best Candidate in 2003 would have actually voted for him, instead of sheepishly and fearfully voting for the RINO actor, we would actually have a conservative in the Gov's office.
Oops.
"you must know that McClintock is groomed for Gov by the CaGOP in 2010."
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And what do you think his chances would be against sitting governor Angelides, after he spends 4 useless years either as Angelides' Lt Gov, where they probably won't even give him the keys to his office, or being put out to pasture, because he loses to Garamendi?
McClintock's best shot IS if Arnold gets elected, and pulls McC in with him, then he can use his position as springboard in 2010.
So, let me repeat again, those who keep trying to get Arnold defeated and Angelides elected are NO CONSERVATIVES. PERIOD.
Yes but he is caving on things he has no reason to cave on. Sure he vetoed the Gay Marriage bill but he lets all kinds of crap "anti-discrimination" bull that lays an inevitable foundation for producing the same result incrementally. I thought Arnold was a great alternative to Davis but California is still slipping off the political landscape.
Your term just got mentioned in a World Net Daily article... twice! With a link back to this FR thread.
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