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Recent appropriations coverage from Humboldt County, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
SB 1073 advanced 9-0 after testimony described it as a voluntary taxpayer support option for preserving the South Los Angeles Black Cultural District.
The committee sent the bill to Appropriations after hearing testimony and questions about how fairs and agricultural districts would comply with public bidding requirements.
The committee moved dozens of bills forward on May 14 while setting aside several measures, including proposals on food additives, drug formularies, medical debt relief and a guaranteed income pilot.
The utility-affordability and wildfire-compensation bill drew lengthy public comment from Camp Fire and Tubbs Fire survivors in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, but no recorded vote appeared in the excerpted hearing record.
The Communications and Conveyance Committee voted 7-0 to send the bill to Appropriations after an extended hearing, while stressing that it would only ask federal officials to approve the change.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee moved AB 1917 forward Tuesday after hearing only support testimony on the bill’s criminal-procedure change.
