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Hotel Booking With just a few days remaining before voters decide whether to recall him, Gov. Gray Davis took a flurry of actions that would do everything from opening the state's carpool lanes to hybrid vehicles to protecting women hospital patients from having invasive tests performed on them without consent.

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Online Booking Lawmakers in the past have proposed laws to allow hybrids in carpool lanes, but environmental groups such as the Sierra Club helped defeat them. Sierra Club representatives, however, said they have not yet taken a position on the governor's proposal.

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London Hotel Booking California has 1,112 miles of carpool lanes, or about 40% of the nation's total. State officials project another 1,045 miles of carpool lanes could be added by 2030.

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Hilton Hotel The governor also signed bills intended to crack down on businesses that avoid paying their share of taxes. Companies that move their headquarters overseas to avoid paying taxes will no longer be able to do business with the state of California under one of those laws, SB 640.

Booking Delta Com State Treasurer Phil Angelides said the law is aimed at companies that "want the benefit from operating here but are unwilling to face up to their responsibilities."

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London Hotel Another set of bills signed by Davis, AB 1601 and SB 614, will give the state more time to investigate and prosecute peddlers of abusive "tax shelters."

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Travel Insurance By Evan Halper
Los Angeles Times - 10/3/2003

Topic: Transportation

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