Comments on: Legislative Alert http://www.cal-moaa.org/blog/2008/05/15/legislative-alert-16/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:24:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: Warren Enos http://www.cal-moaa.org/blog/2008/05/15/legislative-alert-16/#comment-782 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:36:39 +0000 http://www.cal-moaa.org/blog/2008/05/15/legislative-alert-16/#comment-782 Bob: This is an example of the power a person has when they are elected as Speaker of the Assembly! Speaker Bass introduced a bill in the Assembly last year, almost exactly the same as this one, but it failed to pass in the Senate Committee. AB 190 was an entirely different bill that was pending earlier this year and a "gut and amend" procedure was used to take the language from the earlier bill and try to run it through again. Actually, it was pushed through before she took office but she has been the "Speaker-elect" for some weeks now and if she wants to make a gesture such as this, her comrades in the Assembly would not say no. So far, there are no official supporters of this bill. However, the California State Commanders Veterans Council did support the previous bill in 2007. Personally, I do not think the bill is a good idea. There are adequate laws for special parking privileges by handicapped persons, both veterans and the general public. This bill would affect approximately 11,000 persons in the entire state, many of whom are already covered by the handicapped parking permits. It has so many conditions to the special parking privileges for non-handicapped persons that it would be extremely difficult to enforce. However, I would expect that the veteran organizations would want to support the bill as they did with the previous version last year. Bill Manes Bob:
This is an example of the power a person has when they are elected as Speaker of the Assembly! Speaker Bass introduced a bill in the Assembly last year, almost exactly the same as this one, but it failed to pass in the Senate Committee. AB 190 was an entirely different bill that was pending earlier this year and a “gut and amend” procedure was used to take the language from the earlier bill and try to run it through again. Actually, it was pushed through before she took office but she has been the “Speaker-elect” for some weeks now and if she wants to make a gesture such as this, her comrades in the Assembly would not say no.

So far, there are no official supporters of this bill. However, the California State Commanders Veterans Council did support the previous bill in 2007. Personally, I do not think the bill is a good idea. There are adequate laws for special parking privileges by handicapped persons, both veterans and the general public. This bill would affect approximately 11,000 persons in the entire state, many of whom are already covered by the handicapped parking permits. It has so many conditions to the special parking privileges for non-handicapped persons that it would be extremely difficult to enforce. However, I would expect that the veteran organizations would want to support the bill as they did with the previous version last year.

Bill Manes

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