Just a bit more from a day in state politics:

• The Station Fire moved to the west today, and is still raging, having burned 74 homes to this point.  Mount Wilson remains threatened as well.  Yesterday, two firemen died when their vehicle fell off a hillside in the Angeles National Forest.

• The Assembly passed their half a prison bill today, but Darrell Steinberg cautioned that the measure was “not a complete package.”  Calitics will have more on this tomorrow.

• Good news in LA, as the Board of Supervisors has vowed to test every rape kit in the large backlog, and funding that testing completely by expanding staff.

• Is Arnold Schwarzenegger floating a bag tax to fund recycling efforts?  You may remember that it went down to defeat last year.  It’s amusing to see Arnold scrambling around to find things to tax, given his stance during the budget talks.  Some would call it “hypocritical.”

• Employees of the State Compensation Insurance Fund are exempt from furloughs and due back pay with interest, according to a superior court judge’s ruling today.