SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Proposed legislation aimed at enhancing school security, which has countless supporters and no known detractors, was strangely held up in committee yesterday and has no chance of becoming law this year.

What a shame for the students of California.

SB 316, authored by California State Sen. Marty Block, would require all school modernization projects using state funds to include new inside door locks for classrooms. The idea is hardly polarizing, since the majority of people agree that we need to do whatever it takes to protect our children.

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But to the shock of many, the bill failed to make it out of the California Assembly Appropriations Committee. And nobody seems to understand why.

“It’s a blow to school safety and common sense. We are beyond the point where inside door locks would be a nice thing to have, they are imperative if we want to protect children and teachers in the classroom,” Block told the East County Magazine.

Legislation being held up for partisan reasons is nothing new in state or national government.  But that wasn’t the case with this bill.

The proposed legislation reportedly faced no opposition in committee and had wide bipartisan support, reports the news story.

School districts, such as the Los Angeles Unified School District, and teacher unions, like the California Federation of Teachers, came together to support its passage.

So how did a bill, with such widespread support, fail to even make it to the floor for a vote? That’s the question many in California are asking today.

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In a time of constant political bickering, it should be refreshing for state legislators to come together to approve important legislation that everyone overwhelmingly supports.

But it looks as if this proposal is going nowhere fast, for reasons that are not immediately obvious.

No wonder citizens are so skeptical about government.