72-hour rule helps, but more legislative reforms needed

The new law that requires a 72-hour review period for bills before they are voted on by the California Legislature appears to be working — to a degree.
In past years, before the voters approved Proposition 54 requiring bills to be in print for three days before floor votes, lobbyists for powerful special interests stuffed all kinds of things into bills just before they were passed on the final night of the legislative session. Or they got parts of bills they didn’t like stripped away