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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
As a young man, Brown had lobbied his father, then-Gov. Pat Brown, to stay a man's execution, and he vetoed death penalty legislation when he was governor before. "I don't know," Brown said on an airplane between campaign rallies in the Central...
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Education News
| 8 months ago
Brown will have an opportunity to act on passed bills dealing with issues concerning the state's public university system until this coming Sunday. If Brown signs off on the [...] Five bills passed by the California Legislature during the 2011-2012...
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Asian Journal
| 8 months ago
For decades we have tirelessly cared for Californias homes, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities without the protection of basic rights. Tonight, Governor Brown has done a tremendous disservice to thousands of domestic workers, their...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
California Gov. Jerry Brown is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a Mexican hat dance. The Democrat signed one bill that will probably wind up helping a small number of people and issued a veto that will likely hurt many more...It impacts a...
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The Reporter
| 8 months ago
Gov. Jerry Brown memorably warned California lawmakers after returning for a third term in 2011 that they would soon be "playing the veto blues." But an analysis of the two-year legislative session that ended Sunday reveals the Democratic governor...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Assembly Bill 1081 would have prohibited local law enforcement agencies from holding arrestees for federal immigration authorities unless the crime or conviction involved a serious or violent felony. Known by supporters as the "Trust Act," the...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
The governor drew heat Sunday by killing three key labor-backed bills, including one by Assembly Speaker John A. Perez, on the final day for deciding the fate of measures passed by the Legislature this year. Perez's proposal would have doubled the...
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The Herald
| 8 months ago
The assemblyman had wider support for the latest measure, AB 2189, however, with backing from some GOP lawmakers. "I'm proud the governor chose public safety over the politics of the day," Cedillo said. The other closely watched immigration bill was...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Immigration rights advocates, however, said Monday that the political give-and-take was largely an illusion...The bill that Brown signed, which lets some young immigrants have driver's licenses, allows nothing beyond what is permitted under a new...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
With a deadline approaching, Gov. Jerry Brown had hundreds of bills heaped on his desk, but just one key point to get across to voters: Sacramento had to take the tough medicine on fiscal discipline. "California faces fiscal challenges unparalleled...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 8 months ago
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to pave the way for a limited number of currently undocumented immigrants to apply for driver's licenses, marking the first time in nearly two decades that they can climb behind the wheel legally. While the...
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KTUV
| 8 months ago
Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 Gregory Bull California Gov. Jerry Brown, below, holds up a newly-signed bill aimed at worker's compensation costs during a signing ceremony at a printing company in San Diego, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Looking on from right are...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
Some illegal immigrants could get California drivers licenses under AB2189. Family reunification: This bill aims to prevent immigrant children from being separated from family when their parents are being deported. SB1064 lets children who can't be...
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The Orange County Register
| 8 months ago
00 pm · Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Sunday a bill, AB 2189, that will make it possible for some illegal immigrants to obtain a California driver's license without having to provide a Social Security number or proof of citizenship.
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Arizona Daily Sun
| 8 months ago
The Associated Press The Associated Press 1 hour ago Associated Press Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill allowing some illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, but that wasn't good enough for immigrant advocates. Instead of cheering, some...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
The bill, AB 2189, was one of the last of hundreds Brown signed before his midnight Sunday deadline and made national news within hours. It links California to a new Obama administration "deferred action" deportation relief policy granting work...
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Tahoe Daily Tribune
| 8 months ago
AB340 is projected to save taxpayers billions of dollars over time by reforming the state's public pension system. The bill by Assemblyman Warren Furutani, D-Lakewood, raises retirement ages for new employees depending on their job, caps the annual...
