CalMatters: Playing political Whac-A-Mole as issue of bond measure language pops up again

CalMatters: Playing political Whac-A-Mole as issue of bond measure language pops up again

The California Legislature is often the arena for games of political Whac-A-Mole. A piece of controversial legislation fails to clear all of the Capitol’s procedural hurdles and appears to die, but suddenly it reappears through the legislative gimmick known as “gut-and-amend” or it’s reintroduced in the subsequent legislative session. A classic example involves a law passed by the Legislature in 1975 that limited monetary damages in medical malp…