The final state budget included a last-minute commitment of $300,000 to fund the Department of Health Services' Sharps Project, which serves as a clearinghouse for information about safety needles.Beth Capell, a representative of the Service Employees International Union's State Council, said the union, with a big assist from Assemblywoman Carole Migden, was able to secure the funding for the project, "despite it not being in any version of the governor's budget." Migden authored th
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