SACRAMENTO FILE

Assembly Floor Action:

Community College Board Salaries: Approved and sent to the Senate on a 54-14 vote a bill (AB 479) by Assemblyman Charles M. Calderon (D-Alhambra) that would allow doubling maximum monthly compensation of members from $750 to $1,500 for attending board meetings in districts with more than 60,000 students.

Committee Action: Fingerprinting: The Assembly Ways and Means Committee approved a bill (AB 220) by Assemblyman Gary A. Condit (D-Ceres) to require school districts to provide free fingerprinting of kindergartners or new students to help parents later find lost or abducted children. A 20-0 vote sent the bill to the Assembly floor.

Senate Floor Action: Gubernatorial Appointee: Confirmed on a 30-0 vote Gov. George Deukmejian’s nomination of Darlene Ruiz as a member of the state Water Resources Control Board.

Committee Action: Harness Racing: The Senate Governmental Organization Committee approved a bill (AB 451) by Assemblyman Richard Alatorre (D-Los Angeles) to authorize up to 25 more weeks of harness racing at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona and 25 more weeks of quarter horse racing in the Southern California area. A 6-0 vote sent the bill to the Appropriations Committee.

Campaign Literature: The Senate Elections Committee approved a bill (SB 93) by Sen. Bill Lockyer (D-Hayward) to make it a misdemeanor to distribute campaign literature that falsely purports to be an official public document. A 6-0 vote sent the bill to the Appropriations Committee.

Initiative Money Curb: The same Senate committee rejected another bill (SB 1295) by Sen. Dan McCorquodale (D-San Jose) to place a $25,000 limit on corporate and labor union contributions to ballot initiative campaigns. The vote was 2 to 1 with four favorable votes required.

Miscellany Bill Introduction Limit: A money-saving idea that goes nowhere. On opening day last Dec. 3, a resolution (SCR 1) was tossed into the hopper to limit the number of bills that could be introduced during the 1985-86 session to 60 per senator and 45 per Assembly member. The author, Sen. Gary K. Hart (D-Santa Barbara), said his measure, if adopted, would save the taxpayers an estimated $4 million. The Senate Rules Committee sent the Hart resolution to between-sessions study on a 3-2 vote this week, which is a nice way of saying the committee killed it. A similar resolution by a GOP senator suffered the same fate last year. The bill introduction limit idea also has died in the Assembly several times in the recent past. State lawmakers feel that a limit would infringe on their right to introduce as many bills as they see fit.