June 1st: AB2447 Does not Receive Enough Votes in Assembly for Passage

On June 1st, Assembly Bill 2447 (giving Judges discretion to give "great weight" to waive prior strikes if current conviction is nonviolent or non-serious), authored by Assemblymember Rod Wright failed to receive enough votes to pass the assembly. The bill needed 41 votes for passage and only received 24. The results of the vote were as follows:

AYES
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Aroner Bock Cedillo Ducheny Firebaugh Floyd Keeley Knox Kuehl Longville Mazzoni Migden Papan Romero Steinberg Strom-Martin Villaraigosa Vincent Washington Wesson Wiggins Wildman Wright Hertzberg

NOES
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Aanestad Ackerman Alquist Ashburn Baldwin Bates Battin Brewer Briggs Campbell Cardoza Correa Cox Cunneen Davis Dickerson Florez Gallegos Granlund Havice Honda House Jackson Kaloogian Leach Lempert Leonard Lowenthal Machado Maddox Maldonado Margett McClintock Nakano Olberg Oller Robert Pacheco Rod Pacheco Pescetti Reyes Runner Strickland Thompson Thomson Torlakson Wayne Zettel

ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING
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Baugh Calderon Cardenas Corbett Dutra Frusetta Scott Shelley Vacancy


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