This is an example of a phenomenon in the California Legislature: Even when a bill dies one year, and even if a governor kills it, there’s a strong likelihood it will return, especially if big money interests like labor unions and business groups want it signed into law.
about half of the resurrected bills had support from either prominent labor groups or were backed by business.
The number of failed bills returning year after year helps fuel one of the Legislature’s most troubling issues: lawmakers rushing through the democratic process continuing a culture of secrecy at the Capitol.
Lawmakers routinely silence members of the public during hearings in order to jam through the huge volume of bills. Lawmakers also regularly make their decisions behind closed doors, in part because there is so little time to debate their hundreds of bills in public.
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