SACRAMENTO FILE

Governor Will hold a general news conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Will speak to the California District Attorneys Assn. summer conference in Santa Cruz on Thursday.

Assembly Committee Action:

Pay Equity: The Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee approved a Senate bill (SB 2) by Senate President Pro Tem David A. Roberti (D-Los Angeles) to create a commission on pay equity to look into salary differences between male and female state employees. A 5-4 vote sent the bill to the Ways and Means Committee. The governor vetoed a similar measure last year.

Clove Cigarettes: The Assembly Ways and Means Committee approved a bill (AB 2559) by Assemblyman Richard L. Mountjoy (R-Monrovia) that calls for a state study of the relationship between smoking clove cigarettes, lung injuries and other health problems. A 12-6 vote sent the bill to the Assembly floor.

Senate Floor Action: Taxes: Approved and sent to the Assembly on a 25-3 vote a resolution (SJR 30) by Roberti urging President Reagan and Congress to continue to allow state and local taxes to be deducted in any revision of the federal income tax law.

Class Size: Approved and sent to the Assembly on a 25-8 vote a bill (SB 1210) by Sen. Gary K. Hart (D-Santa Barbara) to appropriate $60 million to reward school districts that start to reduce high school class sizes in English, math, science or social science in the 1986-87 fiscal year.

Pregnant Students: Approved and sent to the Assembly on a 29-4 vote a bill (SB 1151) by Sen. Dan McCorquodale (D-San Jose) to appropriate $2 million to keep pregnant minors in school and provide instruction in how to be parents.

Committee Action: Automobile Seat Belts: The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bill (AB 27) by Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) to require drivers and passengers to use seat belts or face possible fines. A 6-1 vote sent the bill to the Senate floor. The measure also requires automobile manufacturers to install air bags or other automatic crash protection devices in cars sold in the state after Sept. 1, 1989.

Funeral: The Senate Business and Professions Committee approved a bill (AB 1804) by Assemblyman Louis J. Papan (D-Millbrae) to rewrite the law governing pre-need funeral arrangements by allowing morticians to use income from trust funds if they guarantee a funeral at a set price. The bill went to the Senate Appropriations Committee on a 5-1 vote.

Miscellany Money Talks With Legislature: The Assembly interrupted its four-day July Fourth holiday to meet for about one hour Sunday night. The Senate interrupted its four-day holiday to meet for about two hours Friday morning. Nothing of any real consequence happened in either house. But the lawmakers, by custom, cannot recess for more than three days without losing their $66 daily tax-free living allowance. So by meeting for an hour or two, legislators will collect $264 apiece--as if they had met for four full days.

Hostage’s Wife Talks To Assembly: Carol Weir, wife of the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian minister kidnaped in Beirut in May, 1984, and still a hostage, spoke to the Assembly. She said the freeing of the 39 hostages from TWA Flight 847 gave her renewed hope that her husband will be released, because it proved that communication with terrorists is possible. Weir asked lawmakers to join her in encouraging the State Department to contact the Lebanese government and barter for release of seven U.S. citizens kidnaped there.