*The governor and both houses agreed to a bill that greatly broadens state laws against money-laundering, including applying those laws to wire transfers.
By increasing the minimum wage well above inflation and broadening state help to the most impoverished with a family grant programme, the Bolsa Familia, he helped some 44 million people and cemented his support among the poor.
However, the definition of senescence has since been broadened, stating that DNA damage and cellular stress, caused by expression of certain oncogenes, unscheduled DNA replication, oxidative stress, or dysfunctional telomeres, can both induce cellular senescence (Nishiyama et al., 1999; Collado et al., 2007).
He has set up a Forensic Sciences Cold Case Unit, whose mission is to train prosecutors to expand the use of DNA evidence to include assaults and property crimes; to re-energize efforts to solve unsolved homicides from decades ago; and to push for the new state law to broaden the state's DNA databank to include all types of crimes.
But Mr. Caprio and the Democratic Governors Association are hitting him hard on a proposal to broaden the state's sales tax.
The Senate approved amendments to broaden the state's hate crimes law this month, and an Assembly vote is expected this week.
Garcia and Assemblywoman Susan Eggman (D-Stockton) introduced Monday a last-minute bill to broaden the state's definition of rape as beyond "an act of sexual intercourse".
In back-to-back years, the Legislature has considered ambitious proposals to boost renewable energy, slash gasoline use and broaden the state's signature greenhouse gas emission goals.
The bill, hotly debated by police, business and faith groups, represents a step back from an earlier proposal that would have broadened the state's trespassing law to encompass being in the state illegally.
