[greenyes] California SB23

[Sharon_Gates@no.address]

It appears that something very wierd has happened to California's SB23 as 
it works its way through our legislature.  SB23 was a bill to increase the 
CRV (deposit) amount on beverage containers.  Unless the legislative web 
page is in serious error, it appears that the bill was "amended" yesterday 
to remove ALL the previous language and substitute entirely new language 
relating to the Office of Criminal Justice Planning.  When I saw that the 
assembly committee analysis of this bill posted on 5/12 was all about 
criminal justice and nothing about beverage containers, I thought the 
wrong text had been posted by mistake.  But today I see the criminal 
justice stuff in the amended version of the bill posted yesterday.

Does anybody on this list know anything about this?  How can a bill be 
"amended" by deleting all previous language and inserting a completely new 
bill on a completely different subject?

Sharon Gates
Recycling Specialist
City of Long Beach, California
562/570-4694