Senate approves bill to let registered domestic partners inherit: The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would allow surviving domestic partners to inherit property under intestate succession laws. The bill, by Assemblyman Fred Keeley, D-Boulder Creek, was approved 22-13, and goes back to the Assembly for concurrence in Senate amendments. Under the bill, the property of a registered domestic partner who died without a will would go to the other partner, in the same manner as surviving spouses inherit.

My, my. Here's hoping it gets through. And the privacy bill as well. (Although, frankly, if it does become law, I would expect it to be challenged almost immediately as a violation of interstate commerce.)