Governor signs strictest livestock antibiotics bill in US
“In a free society, the right to vote is fundamental. The right to vote should be no different”.
The “New Motor Voter Act’ would allow Californians to out of registering to vote”. Spokespeople from California Pork Producers Association and the California Farm Bureau Federation told me they were taking a “neutral position” on the legislation, and the California Poultry Federation actually supports the law-the group’s president told the San Francisco Chronicle: “We think it has the flexibility we can work with”.
That wasn’t the only election-related measure signed by the governor. An exception would be made for gubernatorial races; in those situations, the secretary of state could call for a recount.
The bill changes the rules for statewide recounts, providing state funding for a full manual recount in any race where the margin of victory is 0.0015 percent or 1,000 votes, whichever is lower. The measure would make voting more convenient, according to Sen.
Although many environmental organizations praised the bill’s passage, the removal of the petroleum consumption section has proven to be a sore point.
The state’s approach to immigration reform has become so comprehensive that Karthick Ramakrishnan, associate dean of the school of Public Policy at the University of California in Riverside, has dubbed it “the California Package”. Lois Wolk of Davis (Yolo County), which Brown signed Saturday. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo.
By the mid-1970s, the Food and Drug Administration had grown concerned about antibiotic resistance and planned to ban over-the-counter sales of the drugs for use in livestock. “The bill would require the Secretary of State to adopt regulations to implement this program, as specified”.
Brown and legislative leaders earlier this year approved state funding to cover all children under 19 in Medi-Cal, the state’s health care program for the poor.
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed nine bills sponsored by fellow Democrats that would have created new tax credits or expanded existing tax credits. Brown said the tax credits would make balancing the state’s budget even more hard.
The American Civil Liberties Union and privacy groups said the radio-frequency identification technology is vulnerable to identity theft.
Assembly Appropriations Committee analysts estimate it will cost the state $5.5 million over the next two years to prepare to implement the bill and another $4.3 million annually thereafter to continue training, inspections and tracking.
The consumer products industry had objected to certain aspects of the bill, arguing that it was overly restrictive and did not allow companies to come up with environmentally friendly alternatives. Once in the environment, plastic microbeads concentrate toxins such as pesticides and flame retardants on their surface, which may then transfer to the tissue of fish that mistake microbeads for food.