California bill seeks new five percent tax on bar drinks
Capitol briefs Sacramento AP reports a bill moving to the Assembly Ways and Means Committee would impose a five per cent tax on bar drinks, opposed as fueling at home drinking. The measure passed the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee on a split vote after support from Mayors Yorty and Curran. Pierson said the hurdle was cleared and voiced optimism for passage this year.
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California Senate tackles four year cougar hunting ban
In Sacramento AP reports the Senate Finance Committee examined AB 660 to bar hunting of pumas in California for four years with a permit exception near damage sites. Sportsmen groups and the Fish and Game Dept opposed the bill, which would require action by the Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee after prior rejection of a total ban.
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Sacramento and Fresno chosen for two artificial kidney centers
Sacramento and Fresno have been selected as sites for two new artificial kidney centers. The State Department of Public Health announced Monday that about $360,000 will be divided between hospitals in the two cities for the centers, authorized by the 1970 Legislature.
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API
State Department of Publc Health
Fresno
Chain gang bill clears Senate in California
The Assembly voted 624 to revoke local police chiefs power over chain gangs. AB 274 by Assemblyman Mike Cullen would repeal the 1883 chain gang statute, sending the bill to the Senate for consideration.
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Sacramento
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Yorty weighs New Hampshire primary plans in Capitol remarks
Mayor Sam Yorty said he is still considering a New Hampshire presidential primary and noted you cannot win a foundation on one primary. He added that if he enters New Hampshire, he would need to enter other states. He testified in the Capitol in support of a bill allowing cities to tax bar drinks by five percent.
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Angeles
Sam Vay
New Hampshire
Yorty
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Bill to allow hijack rewards approved by Assembly
AB 1524 by Charles Conrad of Sherman Oaks passed 34 to 1 in the Assembly. The measure lets the governor offer rewards up to 10000 dollars for information leading to arrest and conviction of airplane hijackers and bombers of public buildings. Conrad says earlier bill accidentally omitted hijackers from rewards. Stagecoach robbers referenced in old state law.
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Biyman
Charles Conrad
Sherman Oaks
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Utility profit proposal dies in California Senate panel
The measure SB 1972 by Sen Al Fred Alquist, D San Jose, to tax excess profits by customers was killed in the Senate Public Utilities and Corporations Committee with a 3 to 3 vote, short of the needed four votes for passage.
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Planned Parenthood Chapter Organizes Volunteer Babysitting Coop
The Sacramento chapter of Planned Parenthood is organizing a babysitting cooperative of volunteer workers. Volunteer coordinator Terry Willis says most volunteers come from the birth control clinic and interview section, with many being young mothers who have struggled to find regular work due to childcare needs.
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Assembly panel kills four of six abortion bills
The Assembly Health Committee voted down four of six measures to modify California's abortion law. A three hour hearing drew 400 people with mixed outbursts as lawmakers debated time limits, mental health exceptions, counseling, and bans on saline abortions. Only AB 1834 banning doctors from advising abortions and a Beilenson study resolution passed the panel.
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Assembly Health Committee
California
Robert Burke
Huntington Beach
Assembly
Ways and
Anthony Beilenson
Beverly Hills
Reagan welfare plan seen headed for defeat in Senate
Sacramento reports indicate Governor Reagan’s welfare reform proposal faces certain defeat in the Democrat controlled Senate Health and Welfare Committee. Two members say the panel will substitute a bipartisan compromise program, with county opposition targeting the closed end appropriation concept and state takeover provisions. Beilenson plans a news conference to explain the need for his plan, while Republicans note Beilenson’s compromise still lacks fiscal control.
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Reagan
Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Anthony C. Beilenson
Beverly Hills
Beilenson
GOP
Clair Burgener
R-San Diago
Regional plan calls for Golden Gate Authority to run Bay area assets
San Mateo County leader James Fitzgerald urges mayors supervisors and administrators to back a single regional agency named the Golden Gate Authority. The entity would oversee airports bridges and rapid transit while managing bay conservation water and air quality financed by tolls and existing agency funds. It would include nine Bay Area counties with no tax increase slated.
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San Mateo County
James Fitzgerald
Golden Gate Authority
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Fitzgerald
Hay
Unclear legislative review prompts reform debate and names
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a legislature review, revenue, treaty, and various proper nouns and dates but is garbled. It references lawmakers, students, and possible hearings or actions without coherent details, making extraction of a definite news item difficult.
California bill would tighten shield law for reporters
In Sacramento the Assembly Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to strengthen protections for news reporters from revealing sources. The measure by Assemblyman Alan Serrot y Beverly Hills would extend immunity to the source or nature of information used in grand jury proceedings and to unpublished material, while still allowing testimony on the general nature of unreleased material.
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UPI
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Alen Secroty
Beverly Hills
California Mewspaper Publishers Association
Sieroty
Alioto labeled as deceiving city over busing issue
In San Francisco UPI reports, NAACP official Nathaniel Jones accuses Mayor Joseph Alioto of misleading residents about school desegregation busing. Jones criticizes attempts to oppose or confuse court orders while the board fights a plan requiring busing to end de facto segregation.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Joseph J. Alioto
Nathaniel Jones
NAACT
Board of Education
Alioto
Jones
Rioting Prompts Rule Change On Facial Hair At Prison
Desperate inmates riot at an unnamed facility with about 400 inmates Sunday. Superintendent LN Patterson said beard and mustache rules, written before a change in leadership, will be enforced. Guards used tear gas to quell the disturbance over demands for longer hair.
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