California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D) said yesterday that he has no plans to assign A.B. 1692 to a policy committee in the final weeks of the legislative session, the Sacramento Bee reported today. "Even if it's a tweak of municipal bankruptcy law, it's just, we don't need it. We don't need to have another fight or argument on this same front," Darrell said. "We're trying to accomplish pension reform and that's where we want the focus to be and not on something that is a distraction." The union-backed municipality bankruptcy bill by Democratic Assemblyman Bob Wiecowski (D) makes changes to a compromise measure on the subject that was signed into law last year. Cities say that it would make the mediation process created by the first bill more difficult.
