California
lawmakers to take up same-sex marriage bill

California legislators return on Monday from a monthlong recess to wrap up their 2005 session with four hectic weeks of lawmaking, facing issues that include same-sex marriage. The assembly narrowly rejected a bill in June that would have legalized same-sex marriages in California, but supporters kept the issue alive by attaching it to a bill pending in the senate. That bill is scheduled to be considered Monday by the senate appropriations committee, along with more than 300 other measures.