SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State lawmakers have wrapped up the first half of this year’s legislative session by advancing hundreds of bills addressing a wide range of issues, including gun violence, environmental protection, oil drilling and even whether prison inmates should have access to condoms.
Lawmakers introduced 2,255 bills this year — 1,429 in the Assembly and 826 in the Senate. After Friday’s deadline to pass bills from their original house, the Senate had approved 514 while the Assembly advanced 755.
Lawmakers have until mid-September to decide which of the remaining 1,269 bills to send to Gov. Jerry Brown. Among the hot topics are gun control, school funding, altering the state’s landmark environmental protection law and regulating fracking, an increasingly popular method of extracting oil.
More information on the bills is available at www.leginfo.ca.gov .
