The CA Assembly Appropriations Committee will be hearing the Tiered Registry bill—Senate Bill 421–on August 23.
For many reasons, ACSOL is not planning on attending this hearing and we do not recommend you attend either.
However, all registrants and supporters should call ALL the Assembly Appropriations Committee members at their Sacramento office. Here is a link to the members and their phone numbers:
http://apro.assembly.ca.gov/membersstaff
The deadline for calling is August 22, the day before the hearing.
Tell the staff person that you know the Assembly Member will hear the bill in the Appropriations Committee so you want to comment on Senate Bill 421. Say that you support it, and that you would like the Assembly Member to support it. Even if he or she is not your Assembly Member, mentioning the committee hearing lets them know that this is a situation where your comments have value to them as a committee member.
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Hi Matthew, David, TG, AlexO and all –
Right now our bill is neither late nor is it running out of time. It’s actually right on time. These are the next steps:
1. The Assembly Appropriations Committee will have one more meeting on August 30th. This meeting will be much like today’s meeting as there are still outstanding bills that need to be either moved to the assembly suspense file (fiscal bills) or get a pass/no pass vote (non-fiscal bills).
2. On September 1st, all the fiscal bills will be considered by the Appropriations Committee. This meeting is not open to the public. At this meeting all the fiscal bills will get a pass or no pass vote.
3. If passed out of appropriations the bill will then move to the Assembly Floor for what is called a “Third Reading.” Senator Weiner will explain the bill and the Assembly Members will then discuss the bill. A vote will be taken.
4. Because the Assembly has amended the bill, if the floor vote by the Assembly is “yes” SB 421 will have to go back to the Senate. The Senate might agree with the Assembly’s amendments, this is called concurrence. HOWEVER, the Senate might not agree with the Assembly version. If this happens the bill is referred to a conference committee made up of 3 members from the senate and 3 members from the assembly. If the conference committee can reach a compromise, the bill will go back to both houses for a final vote.
5. If the bill is subsequently passed by both houses it will go to the Governor for signature. Governor Brown has three choices (1) sign the bill into law, (2) allow it to become law without his signature, or (3) veto it.
I have seen bills amended by the Assembly accepted in total by the Senate but I have also seen all the Assembly Amendments removed from a bill and then the bill returned to both houses by the compromise committee exactly as it was first proposed by the Senate. This really does happen.
Sometimes amendments really are just political which means even the person demanding the amendment doesn’t actually think the end bill will include the proposed changes (“Constituents I did my best and tried very hard to amend the bill so everyone on the registry would have to live at the police station for the rest of their life but gosh darn it the Senate just would not accept my recommendation!”). Sometimes a bill’s author agrees to amendments in order to get the bill through the Assembly (or through the Senate) knowing the compromise committee will throw it out. This is the political process, it is what it is.
Bottom line – we don’t know what the final bill will look like yet and we won’t know until it is either accepted by the Senate with Assembly amendments or returned by the compromise committee with changes. At this point we can agree as amended by the Assembly, SB 421 is very different than the original Senate bill. People can decided the bill is now “bad” but we just don’t know what the bill will look like at the end of this process.
This is why it is important to keep the bill alive and hope it gets out of the appropriations committee.
There is a lot of speculation about everything that is happening. But no word from Janice. I am hoping she has the time to give her thoughts on the latest developments.
I wish there was a live chat during certain times so that way we can communicate. While I know having an administrator monitor posts, it would be easier to be able to talk live and help each other out instead of keep checking if you can assist or look for answers constantly
Just read revised SB421 Bill.
Commencing January 1, 2021?
For real? Really?
I’ll be 66 years old if I live until then.
Really? Please tell me I’m wrong.
I might feel better knowing what Janice thinks about this. Coming to this website and getting involved with all these issues is becoming an emotional roller coaster.
Me personally Ive gotten no where, as for this so called thinning of the registry…
since 90+ % of people cant afford the BS lawyer fee’s to PAY to petition the court, MOST all will be STAYING on the registry ANYWAYS, therefore in turn the REGISTRY WILL STAY BLOATED and still COST A TON OF $$$$$$$$$$$$$, so this so called BILL that is to have the objective of THINNING out the registry, well it will HARDLY go down in numbers….
someone mentioned 5000 a year + are added (dont know where that comes from im just requoting…) but if it ADDS 5k a year, I DOUBT that 5K a year have the upwards of estimated 3-5K to spend to GET OFF after thier 10-20 years….
This is another BS thing in the government to make it look like WE WILL BE SAVING $$ when the government wont be saving anything….
MARK my words in 5-10 years from now it will CONTINUE to CLIMB and always stay at 100K plus unless auto removals are done !!! !!!! !!!
Can someone please clarify – are the tiers going to be based in conviction or static 99 score ? Very confused as I keep seeing people comment on both.