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Bruce’s Beach Bill Clears Another Hurdle, Heads to Senate Floor
By Sentinel News Service
Published May 20, 2021
Supervisor Janice Hahn speaks on the importance of returning Bruce’s Beach to Bruce Family (File Photo)
This week,
SB 796, a bill championed by Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn which would allow Los Angeles County to return the Bruce’s Beach property to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce, cleared another legislative hurdle in Sacramento.
Chair of the California Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Anthony Portantino, determined that the legislation had no significant state costs and applied Senate Rule 28.8, sending it directly to the Senate Floor for a Second Reading without a hearing in the Appropriations Committee. The legislation had already passed the California Senate’s Committee on Natural Resources and Water last month with unanimous support.