With 11 days left for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to act on end-of-session legislation sent to his desk, lawmakers, lobbyists and legislative staff are dying to learn the fates of their beloved bills.
Add one more name to the list of people anxious for answers: Oprah.
Or the editors at the media maven's namesake magazine, at least.
The queen of daytime television's mag is set to run a piece on faulty mammogram machines that includes mention of SB 148, a bill by Democratic Sen. Jenny Oropeza that would require operators of the breast cancer detection scans to post notices when the machines fail to meet certification standards.
The piece, budgeted for the mag's November issue, is scheduled to hit newsstands Oct. 13, smack in this middle of Breast Cancer Awareness month, which begins today.
But the deadline for putting the issue to bed was last Friday, leaving editors (and many of the magazine's 2.4 million readers) in the dark about whether the measure will be signed into law.
O editors corresponding with Oropeza's office to check the status of the bill said yesterday that they may be able to push back the deadline for sending that page to the presses until Friday, Oropeza spokesman Ray Sotero confirmed.
But the extension might not do much good for the publication; Schwarzenegger's office won't say what action the governor will take on the bill, or when.
Spokesman Mike Naple wrote in an e-mail that the governor is reviewing legislation sent to his desk has no formal position on the mammogram measure.
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