AssemblyFloor Action:Earthquakes: Passed and sent to the...

Assembly

Floor Action:

Earthquakes: Passed and sent to the Senate on a 69-0 vote a bill (AB 2711) by Assemblyman Dominic L. Cortese (D-San Jose) to authorize a $90,000 study for the governor and the Legislature of the Oct. 1, 1987, Los Angeles earthquake.

Helmets: Passed and sent to the Senate on a 51-15 vote a bill (AB 2746) by Assemblywoman Doris Allen (R-Cypress) to require riders of all-terrain vehicles, regardless of age, to wear safety helmets to curb accidental deaths and injuries.

Condors: Passed and sent to the governor on a 62-7 vote a bill (AB 2324) by Assemblywoman Lucy Killea (D-San Diego) to appropriate $500,000 to expand captive breeding projects at the Los Angeles and San Diego zoos to help prevent the California condor from becoming extinct.

Committee Action:

Weapons: The Assembly Public Safety Committee approved a bill (AB 4545) by Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles) to make it illegal to manufacture, import, sell or possess semiautomatic weapons such as the Uzi and AK-47 assault rifles now being used by street gangs and drug dealers. A 5-0 vote sent the bill to the Ways and Means Committee. The safety committee also approved another Roos bill (AB 4546) to ban plastic pistols that cannot be easily discovered by metal and X-ray detectors. A 7-0 vote sent it to the Ways and Means Committee.

Bill Introductions:

Mexican-Americans: ACR 144 by Assemblyman Jack O’Connell (D-Carpinteria) would designate the week of May 2 as Mexican-American Cultural Awareness Week.

Senate

Floor Action:

Holocaust: Approved and returned to the Assembly for concurrence in amendments on a 31-0 vote a resolution (ACR 105) by Assemblyman Richard Katz (D-Sepulveda) to designate April 10-16 as Holocaust Memorial Week.

Committee Action:

AIDS: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill (SB 2844) by Sen. John Seymour (R-Anaheim) to allow hospitals to test “high-risk” newborn infants for the AIDS virus. A 10-0 vote sent the bill to the Appropriations Committee.