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| The Senate chamber during a session in the Capitol on January 19, 2021 in Sacramento, California. | Getty Images |
Now that California’s legislative session is coming to an end, it’s time to comb through the remains.
In what is a twice-annual tradition for California lawmakers, hundreds of bills go through the Assembly or Senate Appropriations committees in what’s called the Suspense File process.
Every bill with an estimated fiscal impact of $150,000 or greater is routed to the committees for approval. No public hearing is held on the votes, which are conducted behind closed doors. That means it’s impossible to tell who supported the legislation or why it was killed.
At a subsequent public hearing, legislators run through the results in a rapid-fire style, with the respective chairs of the committees reading out the bill and announcing whether it moves forward or is held, effectively putting the legislation on ice for the session.
We went through the roughly 200 bills that were killed this cycle to find 10 with major implications for San Francisco. Time will tell which bills will come back, and when.
Senate:
SB 602 Review of Conservatorships
Introduced by state Sen. John Laird, the bill would have impacted
state policy around conservatorships and require conservators to file a
care plan for a conservatee within 60 days of appointment and within 30
days before a hearing to determine the continuation or termination of an
existing conservatorship. It would authorize the court to impose a
civil penalty of up to $1,000 for the failure to submit a plan.
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