Democrats couldn't gather enough support to bring the bill for a vote before a midnight deadline.
died in the California Assembly on Monday as Democrats could not gather enough support to bring it for a vote ahead of a legislative deadline.
"Especially with four democratic vacancies in the Assembly, the votes were not there today, but we will not give up," Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San Jose and the bill's author, said in a news release. In California, voters overwhelmingly rejected a universal health care system in a 1994 ballot initiative. Former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger twice vetoed similar legislation in the 2000s. And a 2017 proposal stalled in the state Assembly.
To pay for the plan, Democrats had introduced a separate bill that would impose hefty new income taxes on businesses and individuals, which fueled much of the opposition to the plan.
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