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Dan Walters Daily: What’s a spot bill?

By Jeremy B. White

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March 23, 2015 10:59 PM

Helping to build your lexicon of California lawmaking terms, Dan explains an important one: “spot bills,” the empty vessels that lawmakers fill with policy when the time is right.

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