California lawmakers dispensed with their Appropriations suspense files on Thursday.
The suspense file is where bills that cost over a certain threshold are placed until lawmakers can vote on which ones should move forward. It allows lawmakers and interest groups an opportunity to kill bills they don’t like behind closed doors.
A controversial measure that would expand California’s ability to go after companies with monopolistic behavior made it out, but the committee watered it down to remove a private right of action. California’s business communities have launched a widespread campaign against the measure…