Assembly Floor Action:Bond Issues: Rescinded the actions...

Assembly Floor Action:

Bond Issues: Rescinded the actions by which the Assembly previously defeated a $495-million county jail bond issue and a $150-million library bond issue proposed for the June ballot. This means the two bond issues can come up for a second floor vote. They are SB 146 by Sen Robert Presley (D-Riverside) and SB 1220 by Sen. Barry Keene (D-Benicia), respectively. Both measures already have cleared the Senate.

Bills Introduced: Alcoholic Beverages and Gasoline: AB 3366 by Assemblywoman Jean M. Duffy (D-Citrus Heights) would prohibit the concurrent sale of alcoholic beverages and gasoline by so-called “mini marts.”

Insurance: AB 3400 by Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) would establish a local government self-insurance financing authority to create a program to help local agencies obtain insurance and avoid high interest rates.

Senate Floor Action: Women’s History Week: Voted final appoval, 35-0, to a measure (ACR 35) by Assemblyman Dan Hauser (D-Arcata) designating March 2-8 as Women’s History Week. Senate President Pro Tem David A. Roberti (D-Los Angeles) also announced that women senators will preside over the upper house for the first time in history during that week.

Bills Introduced: Advertising Prizes: SB 2104 by Sen. Herschel Rosenthal (D-Los Angeles) would require advertisers offering prizes as a means of luring people to sales presentations to state the make, model and retail price of the prize and to give the prize at the time of the sales presentation.

Comparable Worth: SB 1957 by Sen. Roberti would set up a state commission on pay equity to advise on employment and compensation of various categories of state employees. The governor vetoed a similar bill last year.

Miscellany Voter Registration: There were 1,746,789 more registered voters at the start of the 1986 gubernatorial election year than there were at this time four years ago, Secretary of State March Fong Eu reported. The 12,510,815 registered voters, second highest total in state history, included 6,458,648 Democrats or a 51.6%, a decrease of 43,852 since the last report of registration in March. The total also included 4,655,377 Republicans or 37.2%, an increase of 53,126 since March. Only the voter registration of 13,073,630 in October, 1984, for a presidential primary exceeded the current figure.

Willie Brown Saves Suit: Assembly Speaker Brown, known in the Capitol for his stylish clothes, was wearing an expensive tuxedo the other night when his state car got stuck in a flooded Sacramento intersection on the way home from a colleague’s fund-raiser. Brown, not wanting to get any wetter than he had to, finally climbed atop the car as the water rose higher and higher. Then, the driver of a pickup came by and gave the Assembly leader a ride in the back of the truck with a German shepherd for a seatmate. “We lost the car, but we saved the suit,” Brown quipped.