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San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, September 16, 2000
Greg Lucas, Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Davis also vetoed 42 bills, announcing them, as he usually does, late in the afternoon to minimize the possible bad publicity.
Among the vetoes was a measure that would have helped the Oakland Coliseum and Arena build eight billboards near Interstate 880.
Davis has until Sept. 30 to act on roughly 1,000 bills sent to the him by the Legislature before it adjourned last month.
The AIDS/HIV bill is a temporary measure.
The bill's aim is to make sure people with AIDS or HIV receive treatment from specialists in the two conditions -- even though there is no official specialty in AIDS or HIV like there is for dermatology, for example.
That's why the bill is temporary -- when treaters of AIDS and HIV are recognized as specialists, the law won't be necessary.
The California Health Care Association, which has 35 health care providers as members, backed the measure because most of its members already consider AIDS/HIV a specialty.
According to the AIDS Health Care Foundation, which sponsored the bill, the American Medical Association has not made such a designation.
The coliseum billboards bill, by Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, would have given the joint powers authority which operates the coliseum an exemption from state law which forbids billboards within 660 feet of a landscaped freeway.
Davis said the bill went "much too far by granting an exception for eight displays -- thus thwarting the very intent of the Outdoor Advertising Act -- to limit the proliferation of billboards along the state's highways."
Without the exemption, the joint powers authority cannot go through with the plan which would have reaped an estimated $59 million over 20 years by the coliseum and arena sharing half the advertising revenue from the signs.
Siding with insurers, Davis also vetoed a bill sponsored by the attorney general's office to crack down on unscrupulous door-to- door or telephone solicitations.
The measure would have required more disclosure by in-home salespeople of who they are, who they work for and what kinds of goods or services are being sold.
Some insurers argued the bill was not necessary because their industry is already sufficiently regulated.
Davis mimicked the insurance companies' argument in his veto message:
"While I am supportive of efforts to provide consumers protections against fraudulent sales practices, current law already provides sufficient regulations of insurance practices," Davis wrote.
Another bill vetoed by Davis would have allowed people who employ domestic workers, like housekeepers or nannies, to file wage and tax withholding reports annually instead of quarterly.
Davis said the measure would cost the state money and cause more work for bureaucrats.
Signed by Davis was a bill by Assemblyman Lou Papan, D-Millbrae, that removes the name of former state Sen. Alan Robbins from a variety of state programs and laws named for him.
The Van Nuys Democrat was convicted of corruption charges and served time in the early 1990s. E-mail Greg Lucas at glucas@sfchronicle.com and Lynda Gledhill at lgledhill@sfchronicle.com.
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