A CALIFORNIA effort to enact a civil union law is on hold, but it’s far from dead. In what his spokesman calls a “strategic” maneuver, state assemblyman Paul Koretz withdrew his bill–which would have established Vermont-style civil unions in the state–from consideration just days before the judiciary committee was scheduled to consider it.

Koretz, a Democrat from West Hollywood, introduced AB 1338 in February 2001. During the past year it came before the legislature only in the form of two informational meetings in the fall. Legislative rules allow Koretz until February 22 to return the bill to consideration for this session. Otherwise he must wait until 2003.

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