The Assembly was on recess from July 2nd to August 3rd, and on August 4 Assemblymember Pellerin broke her ankle, was in a cast, & now in a boot; there are 10 days before the state Constitutionally mandated deadline for bills to pass the legislature, so the pressure is on; they are "in floor session as of Monday", but will be in "committees as needed"; what does this mean? Discuss Assemblymember Pellerin's "Gut & Amend" bill, where, when the legislature realized there was no minimum age for marriage in California (one of 3 states), they took all the language out of a bill that had passed the Assembly, and re-wrote it in the Senate so that Calfornia would have a minimum marriage age of 18 - once this passes the Senate, it will come back to the Assembly, where it would be assigned to a committee before coming back to the floor; discussion of 3 of Assemblymember Pellerin's bills that have been signed by the Governor, 3 that are on the Governor's desk; & 3 that continue to move (including one that would hold people under influence behind the wheel in a self-driving car liable even if the car is doing the driving; at the end of the legislative session on Aug. 31st, if the Governor has not vetoed a bill that passed the legislature, it becomes law..."when the clock strikes midnight, all bills stop."...except they done..."urgency bills" can be worked on by the legislature after midnight on Aug. 31; there are 213 bills on the Assembly floor, & 412 on the Senate floor; how do they maintain order? "The Assembly has an electronic voting system, green for yay, red for nay. The Senate votes by roll call, although they someimes do a 'substitute anonymous' vote." They got the Morgani Hill battery storage facility paused by submitting letters to the P.U.C. In Santa Cruz for the weekend, celebrating the O'Neill Sea Odyssey's 30th Anniversary tomorrow.

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