By Lindsey Holden | Sacramento Bee
California lawmakers plan to expedite their bills to address retail theft — an effort to derail a movement to put a question on the November ballot that would toughen a law that made certain lower-level crimes misdemeanors.
The deadline to qualify that ballot measure is June 27, and the bid appears to have momentum. Now lawmakers may be attempting to head off the issue by speeding along their packages of bills.
Legislative leaders would rather pass measures to address the issue because they do not believe Proposition 47 — a 2014 voter-approved initiative that reduced penalties for some drug and theft crimes — needs the significant changes that a ballot measure would implement.
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Amen,
The same goes for the surgeon doing critical operations!