As part of a stately and secretive ritual called suspense file day, legislators killed about 220 bills on education, health care, housing and more.
The more than 700 bills that made it through suspense file day now face another looming deadline next week to pass out of their house of origin. If successful, they will move to the other chamber for further consideration.Assemblymember Evan Low has tried five times to create a state holiday for the November election, closing schools and giving public employees paid time off to vote.
The bill has been held on the Assembly suspense file five times, including again this year.Assembly Bill 1872 was slightly different from several of its predecessors in that it would have swapped out Presidents’ Day with an Election Day holiday in even-numbered years, rather than simply adding another day off, thereby lowering its cost. But with every California voter now being mailed a ballot in every election, the urgency for such a plan has diminished considerably.
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