RE: [greenyes] California SB23

["Heidi Feldman" <hfeldman@no.address>]

Hi Sharon, could this be a new bill with the same number? The old bill
could be retired, since it was passed during the last session.  The
number is then reassigned to another totally different bill, kind of
like a sports jersey for a ball team!

Heidi Feldman
Public Education Coordinator
Monterey Regional Waste Management District
Tel.: 831/384-5313     FAX: 831/384-3567

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon_Gates@no.address [mailto:Sharon_Gates@no.address] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:04 AM
To: greenyes@no.address
Subject: [greenyes] California SB23

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