The Fat Lady Sang.....AB 332 is Dead!

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Just received this message from Ms. Duke at the FSC:

AB 332 just died in suspense-special thanks to all of you who helped in this effort our hard work paid off in spades!!!!

Diane Duke
Chief Executive Officer
Free Speech Coalition

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Official FSC Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
May 24, 2013
CONTACT: DIANE DUKE
[email protected]

AB 332 Dies in Appropriations Committee

SACRAMENTO ? The California Assembly Appropriations Committee today voted to stop Assembly Bill 332 from moving forward, effectively quashing any hopes for statewide mandated barrier protection use in adult film productions in California.

?We are grateful that lawmakers have chosen the best interest of California?s taxpayers and the adult industry over AB 332?s misguided legislation,? Free Speech Coalition (FSC) CEO Diane Duke said. ?The adult industry creates a tremendous amount of revenue and jobs for California. We have effective, successful standards in place to protect performers. This ridiculous bill was a solution without a problem.?

The action comes after a years-long campaign waged by AIDS Healthcare Foundation to mandate condom use on adult productions in California. Adult industry companies, performers and professionals stood in strong opposition to AHF?s attempts to move the condom agenda forward. Currently, a local ordinance ? the Los Angeles Safer Sex for Adult Productions, known as Measure B ? is being challenged in federal court.

?We support choice for performers, as well as the successful testing system that has been in place since 1998, which have resulted in no on-set transmissions of HIV in nine years, nationwide? Duke added. ?It is encouraging to see that legislators recognize the hard work that the adult industry has done to safeguard performers and that our hard work will not be lost to an unnecessary bureaucracy created from unnecessary legislation.?

FSC has spearheaded opposition to AB 332, Measure B and continues to oppose legislation that threatens the well-being of adult industry businesses and professionals. FSC also upholds industry-appropriate self-regulation that includes regular, frequent STD testing for performers.

As the adult industry trade association, FSC has published an industry ?Code of Ethics,? as well as ?The Adult Industry Health & Safety Manual.? For more information about FSC, opposition to mandated condom laws or business resources, contact [email protected].

[rhon23]

very nice

[Roald]

nah cant be.....

[Rochard]

Very fucking nice!

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Weinstein and AHF must really be pissed right now.

Ms. Diane Duke, the FSC Staff and Board, the adult performers who testified, and Ignacio, the lobbyist, defeated a well-funded AHF machine at the statehouse.

Congratulations for a job well done!

[mikesouth]

If you think it's dead you are seriously mislead. It is for the moment but a few calls have tipped me that you can expect to see a statewide push to get it on the ballot statewide.

Personally I'm glad it is dead for the time being...it gives us the chance to come up with a better solution to the problems we face and hopefully we will. if indeed the FSC had anything to do with its being held up I give them credit but that has yet to be seen, the coming week will tell.

[davecummings]

Hoo-Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fitzmulti]

Hoo-Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mikesouth]

OK heres the latest

1. The fat lady didn't sing AB332 or one just like will be re-introduced in the next legislative session UNLESS we as an industry do something to get STDs in Porn Valley under control

2. The FSC had nothing to do with it according to my sources who were there, it was strictly a budgetary consideration, 144 bills, including AB332 and a bill to tax the sale of ammunition were held up because the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee felt that California didn't have the money for them.

There will be more on this next week but the FSC taking credit is kinda like a flea taking credit for killing a dog that was run over by a truck...

[_Richard_]

OK heres the latest

1. The fat lady didn't sing AB332 or one just like will be re-introduced in the next legislative session UNLESS we as an industry do something to get STDs in Porn Valley under control

2. The FSC had nothing to do with it according to my sources who were there, it was strictly a budgetary consideration, 144 bills, including AB332 and a bill to tax the sale of ammunition were held up because the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee felt that California didn't have the money for them.

There will be more on this next week but the FSC taking credit is kinda like a flea taking credit for killing a dog that was run over by a truck...

a bill to tax ammunition was held up due to a lack of funds?

[mikesouth]

a bill to tax ammunition was held up due to a lack of funds?

ya a lot of people are scratching their heads on that one too

politics....weird sometimes

[epitome]

Ugh, please stop saying it's about performer choice. Anyone remotely tied to the industry knows that very few performers actually have a choice ... and those that do prefer condoms suddenly find themselves without much work.

Call it for what it is... most companies are afraid they will not be able to compete if there is mandatory condom usage.

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There will be more on this next week but the FSC taking credit is kinda like a flea taking credit for killing a dog that was run over by a truck...

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[Jim_Gunn]

Ugh, please stop saying it's about performer choice. Anyone remotely tied to the industry knows that very few performers actually have a choice ... and those that do prefer condoms suddenly find themselves without much work.

Call it for what it is... most companies are afraid they will not be able to compete if there is mandatory condom usage.

All performers always had and always will have choices. No one is forcing them to do porn with or without a condom.

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OK heres the latest

2. The FSC had nothing to do with it according to my sources who were there, it was strictly a budgetary consideration, 144 bills, including AB332 and a bill to tax the sale of ammunition were held up because the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee felt that California didn't have the money for them.

There will be more on this next week but the FSC taking credit is kinda like a flea taking credit for killing a dog that was run over by a truck...

I know the FSC was represented at every important hearing and made damn sure that the congressmen received true cost estimates of implementation of the proposed legislation.

And, your source is right, the final decision to kill the bill was all about the money. Most of these types of committees have some cost threshold based on current projections that allows for automatic approval of pending legislation. But, if the FSC hadn't insured the congressmen received true costs information, the only other estimates would have come from AHF's information sources and, probably, would have been well below any cost threshold for automatically stopping progress of AB332.

Just my opinion.