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A major consumer rights initiative targeting the video game industry recently stalled in the California legislature after facing intense pushback from industry representatives. Assembly Bill 1921 , better known as the Protect Our Games Act , failed to make it past the Senate Business Professions and Economic Development Committee. The final tally landed at 4 yes votes and 3 no votes with the rest of the committee members choosing to abstain. Moving a bill forward requires an absolute majority from the committee. Because of this rule those abstentions functioned essentially as pocket vetoes and brought the legislative progress of the bill to a dead stop for the current session.