But before you read the list you might want to get all the 411 and highlights on what bills passed and what bills didn’t.
Here’s the highlights from LA Times from earlier last week:
The California Assembly voted to release extremely sick prison inmates, a move that would pass the cost of their medical care on to the federal Medicare program, saving the state an estimated $42 million a year.
The bill, SB 1399, written by Sen. Mark Leno (D–San Francisco) would apply only to inmates judged to be permanently medically incapacitated. “We’re paying prison guards, two of them, to overlook prisoners who are on a respirator,” said Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Montebello).
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Engle in Sacramento doin' his callin' we guess.
Thousands of conservative Christians gathered at California’s capitol building on Saturday, to rally against homosexuality, abortion and prostitution. The rally in Sacramento was part of a movement called “Call to Conscience,” being led by Lou Engle.
For those of you not familiar with Engle, he was in the news earlier this year for supporting Uganda’s proposed law to execute gays. Senator Brownbeck from Kansas was prompted by the Kansas Democratic Party in May, to denounce his affiliation with Engle because of his anti-gay Uganda ties. Now Engle has been endorsed by Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee along with a list of top anti-LGBT religious leaders according to San Diego Gay & Lesbian News (SDGLN).
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There's poor overwhelmed Leno in the background while crazy as loon Ashburn daydreams over plans to redo the whole gay marriage scenario in Cali.
We’re beginning to like this Ashburn guy. We like his ballsy-ness. According to On Top Magazine, California Senator Roy Ashburn sent a letter last week to CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him to veto the Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act bill, a pet project of Senator Mark Leno and EQCA.
His reason? Ashburn feels the bill will just create second-class marriages for gay folks.
The Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act says religious organizations could not be stripped of their tax-exempt status if their clergy refuse to perform any civil marriage that is contrary to the tenets of his or her faith.
Ashburn says he agrees that religious freedoms should be protected, but notes such protections are already in place under existing state law and the U.S. Constitution. Here’s a segment from the letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger:
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