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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1977
Page
3
The California Assembly approved a 14.7 billion dollar budget with less prison spending than Gov. Brown wants and more than his plan for state employees. The vote was 52 to 19, with a Senate version delayed due to a computer outage after a fire. A conference committee will reconcile differences ahead of July 1 signing.
SACRAMENTO AP Production or distribution of rape films involving a child would be a felony under a measure sent to the Senate floor Monday. Senator Robert Presley said the bill places controls in California's child-labor law to avoid First Amendment issues. The Senate Finance Committee approved the measure 12 to 6 after brief debate. Presley acknowledged some films originate outside California and called Los Angeles the pornography capital, with San Francisco close behind.
California's Commission for Economic Development backed the El Paso Alaska Co. plan to bring Alaskan natural gas to California by tanker and on shore LNG terminals, voting 10 to 1 with five abstentions. The move highlights job gains of about 40,000 California worker-years and contrasts with two Trans-Canada options. The issue proceeds to Governor Brown as hearings, under the 1978 act, set for Sacramento.
The Senate Finance Committee backed a $1 million mass transit appropriation including Amtrak subsidies and other rail projects. An Economic Development Commission spokesman warned that LNG imports could reduce natural gas demand and render unused pipelines unnecessary, harming long term state needs.
Los Angeles school board presented a post adoption survey estimating up to 58 000 white students would leave the district if mandatory busing were imposed The board sought to use it as evidence in hearings on the limited busing plan while Judge Paul Egly questioned its timing and implications The survey also showed 45 percent of white residents opposed to desegregation
U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real in Los Angeles criticized Pasadena Unified School District for telling parents a freedom of choice plan was before it. He said the Pasadena Plan with mandatory busing remains in effect until a new order. A July 11 hearing was set to decide the next step in the seven year old case as the Supreme Court last summer adjusted but did not dissolve the plan.
AP reports San Diego teachers voted Monday night to remain on strike and stay out of classrooms while awaiting a second judge's ruling on a proposed injunction requested by school officials. The action began Monday and teachers agreed to stay away for a fee.
The California Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to annually adjust state income tax brackets for inflation, aiming to keep wages taxed in the same brackets as cost of living. The measure moves to the Senate floor on a party-line vote, while unrelated labor actions in San Diego unfold with teachers striking and a temporary restraining order in place.
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