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More than California's budget is up in the air.
So is a year's work by 120 lawmakers who want the governor to sign off on requiring carbon monoxide detectors in homes, impounding cars belonging to illegal dumpers and giving funeral directors permission to remove pacemakers, among nearly 1,000 other proposals.
Typically, the Legislature, which adjourned Sunday, would be sending Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger bills to act on during the next couple of weeks. But because he has vowed to veto any measures that reach his desk before a budget gets there, legislators have to decide: Should they hold back the bills, or release them now and test his threat?
The...