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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; Tom Ammiano</title>
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		<title>Ruling gives new drive to medical marijuana bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/05/06/ruling-gives-new-drive-to-medical-marijuana-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bay Area lawmaker says today’s California Supreme Court decision that local governments can ban medical marijuana dispensaries is all the more reason to support his bill to create statewide regulation under the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. AB 473, by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, was passed by the Assembly Public Safety Committee two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ammiano bill lets ABC control medical marijuana</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/19/ammiano-bill-lets-abc-control-medical-marijuana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical marijuana would be regulated by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control under a bill rolled out by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. Ammiano, D-San Francisco, last year had carried a bill that would have created a nine-member Board of Medical Marijuana Enforcement within the Department of Consumer Affairs to regulate the industry. The Assembly passed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill would require condom use in California porn</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/13/bill-would-require-condom-use-in-california-porn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/13/bill-would-require-condom-use-in-california-porn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Ammiano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AB 336]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult films]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darren James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isadore Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Legislature remains, er, hard at work. Assemblyman Isadore Hall III, D-Los Angeles, announced he’s holding a news conference tomorrow – Valentine’s Day – to introduce a bill requiring condom use in all adult films produced in California. Hall will be joined by Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Darren James, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bills push for ammo tax, assault weapon seizure</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/01/28/bills-push-for-ammo-tax-assault-weapon-seizure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/01/28/bills-push-for-ammo-tax-assault-weapon-seizure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Skinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Bonta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luis Alejo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roger Dickinson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the gun-control bills being rolled out by Assembly Democrats are a pair from a freshman East Bay lawmaker to tax ammunition and perhaps move toward confiscating banned assault weapons. Assemblyman Rob Bonta’s AB 187 would place a tax on the sale of ammunition in California with proceeds going to a high-crime prevention fund that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Samaritan drug law takes effect Jan. 1</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/17/good-samaritan-drug-law-takes-effect-jan-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/17/good-samaritan-drug-law-takes-effect-jan-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Ammiano]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Good Samaritan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among California’s new laws taking effect Jan. 1 will be a “Good Samaritan” law, encouraging witnesses of suspected drug or alcohol overdoses to seek emergency aid without fear of arrest. California is the 10th state to enact such a law; it was authored here as AB 472 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco. The law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new push for &#8216;split-roll&#8217; property taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/06/a-new-push-for-split-roll-property-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/06/a-new-push-for-split-roll-property-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of a poll showing support for altering Proposition 13 so commercial properties can be taxed at their current value, a Bay Area lawmaker says he’ll pursue exactly that. The “split roll” property tax, in which all of Proposition 13’s protections for residential properties would remain but commercial properties would be regularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Area&#8217;s new Assembly leadership assignments</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/03/bay-areas-new-assembly-leadership-assignments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/03/bay-areas-new-assembly-leadership-assignments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Wieckowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Frazier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Mullin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Skinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nora Campos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rich Gordon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Bonta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Bonilla]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are your Bay Area Assembly members’ leadership assignments for the 2013-14 session, made today by Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles: Leadership Speaker pro Tempore: Nora Campos, D-San Jose Assistant Speaker pro Tempore: Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco Rules Committee Chair: Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley Committee and Subcommittee Chairs Accountability and Administrative Review Committee: Jim Frazier, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Area lawmakers propose ammo control law</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/08/09/bay-area-lawmakers-propose-ammo-control-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/08/09/bay-area-lawmakers-propose-ammo-control-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loni Hancock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Bay Area lawmakers introduced legislation yesterday that would require that law enforcement be notified of large ammunition purchases. AB 2512 – co-authored by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley; Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco; and state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley – would require vendors who sell, supply, deliver, or give possession of more than 1,000 rounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical marijuana advocates plan lobbying blitz</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/16/medical-marijuana-advocates-plan-lobbying-blitz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/16/medical-marijuana-advocates-plan-lobbying-blitz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates are descending upon Sacramento on Saturday through Monday for a “unity conference” and lobbying blitz on behalf of creating a new state regulatory system for medical marijuana. The conference this weekend – organized by Americans for Safe Access, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 5, California NORML, the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Area lawmakers react to Brown&#8217;s budget</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/14/bay-area-lawmakers-react-to-browns-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/14/bay-area-lawmakers-react-to-browns-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sandre Swanson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rhetoric is flying hot and heavy in the hours since Gov. Jerry Brown issued his May budget revision. We’ve got an overall look at the situation in our main story, but here’s what some of your Bay Area lawmakers are saying&#8230; From Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont: “As we work through this shortfall, we should [...]]]></description>
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