As California faces a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, lawmakers must make tough decisions about which of the more than 1,000 measures still alive in the Legislature this year will not make the cut.
On Thursday, they stopped hundreds of bills from advancing to the Senate and Assembly floors via the so-called suspense file. It's a mysterious process where lawmakers on two committees decide — with no explanation — which bills will get a chance to become law later this year and which ones should not move forward.
