AB 492- COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ANALYSIS

     Per my Post of April 30, 2005, the Assembly Committee on Environmetnal Safety and Toxic Materials passed this bill (requiring annual reporting to the State government by businesses handling perchlorate); the bill afterwards got sent to the Committee on Appropriations

     Yesterday, May 4, 2005, the Committee on Appropriations issued its own analysis of the proposed legislation.  All references to the bill regulating dry cleaners have been dropped-- so apparently somebody in Sacrameno has awakened to the reality that the dry cleaning industry does not use perchlorate (the industry uses perchloroethylene, a similar-sounding, but different, chemical).

     So far, so good.  The Committee on Appropriations' analysis, like the Committee on Environmetnal Safety and Toxic Materials' analysis, however, still does not deal with most of the other questions about the legislation raised in my Post of April 30.

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[Vicky]

Hello,Did someone from the Queer Commons make it out to the LGBTQ/Labor Meet & Greet on Tuesday? I didn’t see you but maybe we just didn’t cross paths! If you ended up not being able to make it out, I’d love to meet up and talk to you about our camipagn to see if you're interested in endorsing. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon!