California: Effort to make Legislature part-time fails
A proposed ballot initiative to create a part-time Legislature has failed to make it on the November ballot. Backers say they were unable to raise the money to collect the necessary signatures by a Monday deadline. The plan becomes the third proposed ballot measure aimed at changing how state government operates that has failed to qualify. Two other proposals, one to call a constitutional convention and another to make specific changes in state governance, were suspended because of a lack of funding.