CalWatchdog Morning Read – August 19
Affordable housing deal appears dead for the year
- Court rules medical pot safe from feds
- Stockton mayor pleads not guilty to charges from teen strip poker game
- Legislature close to decriminalizing prostitution for minors
- Concealed carry has begun in Kern High School District
Good morning and TGIF! The legislative session drew one day closer to its conclusion — and it appears that one of the biggest outstanding policy issues is done for the year.
A deal to spur the construction of low-income housing statewide has apparently fallen apart, according to multiple media reports.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount, said talks have died for the year, largely because of Gov. Jerry Brown’s insistence on including provisions that would speed up development by relaxing requirements in the approval process — an idea that angered many local government officials.
CalWatchdog has more.
In other news:
- “A new federal court ruling offers some reassurance that no federal authority can pull the plug on state-approved medicinal pot use,” writes CalWatchdog.
- Stockton’s mayor has “pleaded not guilty to criminal charges connected to a strip poker game with teen counselors at a summer camp for underprivileged children,” writes The San Jose Mercury News/AP.
- “A controversial bill that would decriminalize prostitution for minors squeezed out of the California Assembly on Thursday and is now headed back to the Senate for a final vote,” writes the Los Angeles Times.
- “Kern High School District officials began allowing non-employee concealed carry weapon permit holders to bring firearms on campus Wednesday, but with a cost that at least one trustee said presents ‘obstacles’ to armed citizens,” reports The Bakersfield Californian.
Assembly:
- In at 9 a.m.
Senate:
- In at 9 a.m.
Gov. Brown:
- No public events announced.
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