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[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Legislators are balking at the cost of future prison upgrades: $1.2 billion a year. "It borders on the incredible," said SenatorChristine Kehoe (D-San Diego). The projected cost per prison healthcare bed under the plan is $602,000.

Assemblyman Gene Mullin (D-SF) has proposed a bill to protect animal researchers from activists who harass them. AB2296 would allow UC officials to withhold the names of researchers from public documents.

And while some researchers need officials to hide their identities, others get to visit a tropical research "paradise" in the South Pacific. The University of California runs a facility tounderstand the effects of global warming, which surprised somelegislators. An informal hearing about the budget costs of a tropicalparadise may be in the works.

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