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Rules Committee approves urgency clause for SB 280 after debate over process and referral request
Summary
The Assembly Rules Committee approved adding an urgency clause to SB 280 (Cervantes) after members debated whether the clause met constitutional standards and a separate motion to refer the bill and an unspecified ACA to the Judiciary and Elections committees was ruled out of order.
The California State Assembly Rules Committee approved a motion to add an urgency clause to SB 280 (Cervantes) after a roll-call vote during its meeting. The committee vote followed a request from a member to remove the item from the consent calendar and a subsequent procedural debate over whether the urgency clause met the constitutional threshold.
Assemblymember Lackey argued that the urgency clause request did not meet the standard in Article IV of the California Constitution, which limits urgency statutes to measures “necessary for the…
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