Sacramento is giving voters a double dose of sneakiness

Senate Bill 863 is a double dose of sneakiness — combining, in just 17 words, two separate efforts to block Californians from knowing what their elected officials are doing.
First of all, it continues the unseemly practice of misusing “budget trailer bills” for purposes that are unrelated to the budget.
When voters decreed a few years back that the state budget no longer needed a two-thirds legislative vote to pass, they unwittingly applied that looser standard to those an