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The Senate Appropriations Committee passed Kamlager’s bill it now faces a vote in front of the full Senate, as does another proposed amendment to enshrine the right to abortion and contraception in California’s constitution. “And this is the only one where Department of Finance says ‘Hey, we could deal with litigation.’ … I mean, when we have a resolution on Juneteenth!”
Holding back tears, she added, “I’m also just deeply insulted that all of the (bills) that we heard today, this is the only one where Department of Finance has a file” outlining the fiscal impacts.… I mean, I think this is what we are talking about that led to the Civil War.” Obviously, you keep people as slaves and you keep them as indentured servants … because it is cheaper to do so. “This country has been having economic discussions for hundreds of years around slavery and involuntary servitude and indentured servitude. “My blood pressure just shot off the chain listening to the Department of Finance,” she said. Sydney Kamlager, the Los Angeles Democrat and congressional candidate carrying the bill, was incensed. If the department were required to pay those workers minimum wage, which is one potential outcome in our view, the cost could be in the range of $1.5 billion annually.”
… The largest potential impact is to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which currently employs around 65,000 incarcerated persons to support essential prison operations, such as by providing cooking, cleaning and laundry services.
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(Inmate firefighters, on whom California has long depended to fight wildfires across the state, earn between $1.45 and $3.90 per day, plus an extra $1 per hour in emergencies.) The state’s constitution currently prohibits involuntary servitude “except to punish crime” - allowing the state prison system to pay inmates as little as 8 cents an hour for jobs including food service, custodial work and construction, according to a legislative analysis. Gavin Newsom’s administration, a powerful legislative committee advanced a proposed constitutional amendment to ban involuntary servitude in California.
Thursday was a day of emotion and controversy at the California State Capitol - illuminating some of the issues likely to gain even more political intensity with just a month and a half left in the legislative session and the November general election looming on the horizon.įirst up: Involuntary servitude.