The Legislature acted swiftly on new laws...

The Legislature acted swiftly on new laws to correct errors made last year that accidentally legalized manufacture and sale of the drug PCP and cut $31 million in desegregation funding for six school districts. The PCP foul-up came in the form of a one-letter typographical error that reversed the intent of a bill intended to bring the state’s list of illegal drugs into conformity with the federal list. An Assembly bill to correct this was passed by a 64-0 vote. And the state Senate voted 36 to 0 for a bill to grant $31 million for desegregation costs to schools in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach, San Jose, San Diego and San Bernardino. Gov. George Deukmejian had cut the money from a funding bill last year in the mistaken belief that the money was included in another bill.