SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Hollywood celebrities can continue to drive with animals nestled in their laps.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is vetoing a bill to fine motorists $35 for sharing the driver’s seat with lapdogs or other animals. Republican Assemblyman Bill Maze says the practice is distracting. He introduced the bill after seeing a woman driving with three dogs on her lap.

Schwarzenegger says he’s signing only bills that are “the highest priority for the state.

nia.” And a lapdog ban isn’t one of them.

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