Reporting from Sacramento - Assembly Speaker Karen Bass on Monday removed plans to create a commission to reevaluate California’s sentencing laws from a package intended to cut spending on state prisons, saying she expected to win approval for the revised proposal later this week.
It was unclear whether Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D- Sacramento) -- senators ratified a $525-million package of spending reductions Thursday -- would go along with the Assembly’s limited version. The sentencing review is one of Steinberg’s priorities, and his house would have to approve the Assembly’s changes before the legislation could go to the governor.
The Assembly also cut other provisions from the package that would leave a nearly $200-million hole in the state budget.
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