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CALIFORNIA RESEARCH BUREAU CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY Studies in the
News 03-42 (July 3, 2003) Studies in the News is a very current compilation of items significant to the Legislature and Governor's Office. It is created weekly by the State Library's Research Bureau to supplement the public policy debate in California’s Capitol. To help share the latest information with state policymakers, these reading lists are now being made accessible through the State Library’s website. This week's list of current articles in various public policy areas is presented below.... CULTURE AND SOCIETY Equal Rights, Fiscal Responsibility: The Impact of AB 205 on California's Budget. By M. V. Lee Badgett and R. Bradley Sears. Williams Project on Sexual Orientations Law and the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies. (The Institute, Los Angeles, California) 2003. 24 p. Full Text at: www.iglss.org/media/files/wppolicystudy.pdf [“Giving domestic partners most of the rights enjoyed by married couples could save California up to almost $11 million per year…. AB 205 … would let domestic partners file joint state income tax returns, pay and receive child support and seek insurance coverage for each other, among other rights.”] [Request #S8466]
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