California's governator has more than 700 bills on his desk that require action (veto, sign, whatever) by Sunday. At about the same time of the year in 2007, he had more than 900. That's progress but it's still far too many.
California has 40 state senators and 80 state assemblymen and women. If each senator authored one of the 700 bills, the senators would have authored more than 17 bills each on average during the legislative year. Assemblymen and women would have authored half that.
Who can find 700 reasons to write a new bill? It must be a community endeavor, the community being legislators and lobbyist. Shelf space for 700 to 900 new bills must challenge librarians each year. Law book publishers too.
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