California lawmakers on Thursday voted to keep hundreds of bills from advancing for a floor vote during a tough budget year. They made the cuts during a mysterious process in which lawmakers decide — with no explanation — which bills get a chance to become law later this year and which ones should not move forward.
California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, a Democrat and chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, speaks to reporters on Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Sacramento, California . The committee decided the fate of hundreds of bills on Thursday. , lawmakers must make tough decisions about which of the more than 1,000 measures still alive in the Legislature this year will not make the cut.
“We have an obligation to balance the budget here in California,” she said. “We can’t go into debt, so we have to be very judicious with the budget.”It was a good day — mostly — for proponents of reparations for Black Californians. The state Assembly overwhelmingly passed a state apology for the legacy of slavery, and the Senate Appropriations Committee advanced several other proposals to rectify harms against descendants of enslaved people.
“It’s a financial challenge this year,” Bradford said. “But we always knew it wasn’t going to be a one and done. This is going to be a multiyear approach.”vetoed legislation
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