The Governor relented on his mass veto threat this weekend. Citing progress on water negotiations, Schwarzenegger got the pen out and started signing on the dotted line.
His total for the session stands at 632 new laws approved this session -- which sounds like a lot until you hear it makes him the "stingiest" Governor for signing bills in recent history. His signing totals have declined in each of the last four years, but he's still not the Veto King -- that still belongs to Deukmejian, who axed 436 bills in 1990.
Most importantly, if you wanna know what wasn't on the list of bills for the Governor to consider -- Prop 1A securitization and HUTA clean up language. It's alleged that the Senate is coming back to finish up that piece of business this week.
And back to the raw numbers of bills, for those of you wishing for a bygone era in which the legislature was less concerned with passing hundreds of bills, Dan Walters reminds us that in 1967, Reagns first year as Governor, the legislature passed over 1,700 bills, and the Guv vetoed just 83 of them.
Get a full list of the signed/vetoed bills here. LA Times has a good rundown of the major legislation here.


