SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers return to work Tuesday with more than 300 bills awaiting their action in the final four days of this year’s regular session.
The governor has called concurrent special sessions on healthcare and transportation that could go beyond Friday. But legislative leaders have said they want to wrap up action this week.
Outstanding issues include regulation of medical marijuana and electronic cigarettes, slashing gas use in the state and allowing physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill Californians.
The aid-in-dying bill is expected to come up for an Assembly floor vote as early as Tuesday, but after that it would still have to go through the Senate committee process and a floor vote in that house if it is to be sent to the governor.