The governor has a busy week ahead as he will need to decide the fate of hundreds of bills by end of this week. Governor Newsom will need to review about 110 bills per day, says one California law professor.
"In all those bills, those 1,100 bills in the 2022 session, if you added up all the costs they would exceed 20 billion dollars in either one time or ongoing spending," he said. "And so he has said, listen I can't sign all those bills because there is such a significant fiscal impact to them."In recent days, the governor has signed a number of bills into law.
On Friday, which he proclaimed Native American Day, he signed a bill that would remove the ethnic slur word "squaw" from all geographic features and places in the state. And a bill that would rename University of California's Hastings College of the Law to the College of the Law, San Francisco. Over the weekend, he also signed two bills to crack down on catalytic converter thefts. Both would restrict how and where people and recycling companies can purchase used catalytic converters."We're going to get to the root cause, at least one of the root causes of this crime, and that's those brokers and those middle men who pay top dollar for stolen parts," Newsom said in a video announcement posted on Twitter.
He explained that the people who buy or sell these parts will now have to keep detailed records so they can better trace if thefts do occur. "You take away the market for stolen goods, you can help cut down on stealing," Newsom continued. "It's not much more complicated than that."