Lawmakers return from their spring recess this week focusing on hundreds of bills that have to pass from one house to the other by the end of May. Discussions on divisive issues include how to alter an $11 billion water bond that is on the November ballot but that nearly all lawmakers agree needs to change drastically. Legislative leaders say they expect the negotiations to produce a much smaller bond that will be stripped of the local, special interest projects that were crammed into it when it was first proposed several years ago.
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