citation: GOV § 9376

text: When the survivor is entitled to receive a monthly allowance as a death benefit provided by any other provision of this chapter and at the same time is entitled to receive a survivor allowance, the survivor allowance payable in any month shall be reduced by the amount of such other allowance or benefit.

article: 8. Survivor’s Allowances


kind: section

code: GOV

citation: GOV § 9377

text:
The rate of contribution of a member subject to this article shall include in addition to his normal rate, two dollars ($2) per month. Such contributions shall not become a part of a member’s accumulated contributions or be treated or administered as normal contributions and shall not be refundable to a member under any circumstances. Such contributions shall be available only for payment of survivors’ allowances under this article.

Contributions shall begin on the first of the month or the payroll period following the filing of an election to be subject to this article.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1409.)

division: 2. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT

chapter: 3.5. Retirement of Legislators

article: 8. Survivor’s Allowances

path: 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA > 2. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT > 3.5. Retirement of Legislators > 8. Survivor’s Allowances


citation: GOV § 9378

text: A person who in any month is an eligible survivor of more than one member, shall receive only one allowance under this article, which shall be the largest of the monthly allowances to which he or she would otherwise be entitled.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 93.5. Effective January 1, 2003.)

title: 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

article: 8. Survivor’s Allowances


citation: GOV § 9400

text: As used in this chapter, “committee” means a committee of either the Senate or Assembly, a joint committee of both houses, or, when any of the foregoing committees is authorized to create subcommittees, a subcommittee.

history: (History: Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

chapter: 4. Witnesses

path: 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA > 2. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT > 4. Witnesses


citation: GOV § 9401

text: A subpoena requiring the attendance of any witness before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee may be issued by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, or the chairman of any committee before whom the attendance of the witness is desired if permission has been secured from the Rules Committee of the respective house.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1672, Sec. 1.)


citation: GOV § 9402

text:
A subpoena is sufficient if it:

(a) States whether the proceeding is before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee.

(b) Is addressed to the witness.

(c) Requires the attendance of the witness at a time and place certain.

(d) Is signed by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, or chairman of the committee before whom attendance of the witness is desired.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 71, Sec. 68. (SB 1304) Effective January 1, 2015.)


citation: GOV § 9403

text: The service of a subpena may be made by any person over 18 years of age.


citation: GOV § 9404

text:
(a) The members of any committee may administer oaths to witnesses in any matter under examination.

(b) Anyone authorized to administer oaths who is designated by the chairman of a committee may administer oaths to witnesses.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 575.)


citation: GOV § 9405

text: If any witness neglects or refuses to obey a subpena, or appearing, neglects or refuses to testify, or to produce upon reasonable notice any material and proper books, papers or documents in his possession or under his control, he has committed a contempt.


citation: GOV § 9406

text: If the contempt is committed before the Senate or Assembly, the Senate or Assembly may commit him for contempt by resolution entered on the Senate or Assembly Journal, as the case may be.


citation: GOV § 9407

text: If the contempt is committed before a committee during the session of the Legislature, the committee shall report the contempt to the Senate or Assembly, as the case may be, for such action as may be deemed necessary by the Senate or Assembly.


citation: GOV § 9408

text: If the contempt is committed before a committee when the Legislature is not in session, the superior court in and for the county in which any inquiry, investigation, hearing or proceeding may be held by the committee may compel the attendance of the witness, the giving of testimony, and the production of books, papers, documents and accounts, as required by the subpena issued by the committee, on the filing by the committee of a petition to the court asking that the witness be so compelled.


citation: GOV § 9409

text: Any witness neglecting or refusing to attend in obedience to subpena may be arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms and brought before the Senate, Assembly or committee, as the case may be. The only warrant or authority necessary authorizing the arrest is a copy of a resolution of the Senate, the Assembly or committee signed by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly or chairman of the committee, as the case may be, and countersigned by the Secretary of the Senate, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly or a majority of the members of the committee, as the case may be.


text: No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he or she shall be examined by the Senate, Assembly, or a committee, upon the ground that the testimony to the fact or the production of the paper may tend to disgrace the witness or otherwise render the witness infamous.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1672, Sec. 1.5.)


citation: GOV § 9410

text:
(a) If, in response to a question posed, or a command to produce documents or other materials issued, by the Senate, the Assembly, or a committee, a witness asserts his or her privilege against self-incrimination, and the person presiding over the proceeding directs the witness that, notwithstanding that assertion of privilege, he or she is required to answer the question or produce the documents or other materials, the witness may not refuse to testify or produce the documents or other materials on the basis of his or her privilege against self-incrimination. However, if a witness is compelled to testify or produce documents or other materials notwithstanding his or her assertion of the privilege against self-incrimination, as described in this subdivision, both of the following shall apply:

(1) The witness may not be held to answer criminally or be subject criminally to any penalty or forfeiture for any fact or act touching upon either testimony that he or she was so compelled to provide, or documents or other materials that he or she was so compelled to produce.

(2) Any testimony or documents or other materials that the witness is so compelled to provide shall not be competent evidence in any criminal proceeding against the witness except in a prosecution for perjury or contempt.

(b) In the case of a subpoena that requires a witness to produce documents or other materials but does not require the witness to personally appear, the witness under subpoena may assert his or her privilege against self-incrimination only by communicating an assertion of the privilege to the President pro Tempore of the Senate, if the subpoena was issued by the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly, if the subpoena was issued by the Assembly, or the chair of the committee, if the subpoena was issued by a committee. The Senate, the Assembly, or committee, as the case may be, may compel the witness to produce the documents or materials notwithstanding the privilege against self-incrimination as to those documents or other materials only by (1) issuing a subsequent subpoena calling for the witness to personally appear, (2) upon that appearance, asking the witness whether he or she continues to assert the privilege, and, if so, (3) directing the witness that, notwithstanding that assertion of privilege, he or she is required to produce the documents or other materials called for by the subpoena as to which that assertion of privilege was made.

(c) Immunity is conferred upon a witness pursuant to this chapter only if the witness is compelled, as specified by this section, to testify or produce documents or other materials notwithstanding the assertion of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 195, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)


citation: GOV § 9411

text:
Every State department, office, board, commission or bureau, including The Regents of the University of California, shall discharge any person who commits a contempt before any committee. Such person shall receive no compensation from the State or any agency thereof for services rendered after the date of such refusal.

No State department, office, board, commission or bureau, including The Regents of the University of California, shall ever employ or compensate for services any person who has at any time prior to the proposed employment or compensation committed a contempt before any committee.

The committee shall read this section to the person so refusing, and shall certify the refusal to the State Personnel Board and to the State Controller. Upon receipt of such certificate, the State Personnel Board shall immediately notify every State department, office, board, commission or bureau, including The Regents of the University of California, by whom such person is or has at any time been employed.


citation: GOV § 9412

text:
Every person who, being summoned to attend as witness before the Senate, Assembly, or any committee, refuses or neglects, without lawful excuse, to attend pursuant to such summons, and every person who, being present before the Senate, Assembly, or any committee, wilfully refuses to be sworn, to answer any material and proper question, or to produce, upon reasonable notice, any material and proper books, papers, or documents in his possession or under his control is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Every member of the Legislature convicted of a misdemeanor under this section, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his office and is forever disqualified from holding any office in the State.


citation: GOV § 9414

text:
(a) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor:

(1) Coerces or attempts to coerce any person not to appear as a witness before any committee.

(2) Deprives, attempts to deprive, or threatens to deprive any other person, or requests any employer to deprive any employee, of lawful employment, when such deprivation, attempt, threat, or request is motivated by the fact that the other person or employee is, was, or may become a witness before a committee.

(b) Any employer or person acting on behalf of an employer who, directly or indirectly, harasses any person employed by that employer, when the harassment is motivated by the fact that the employee is, was, or may be a witness before a committee, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(c) This section shall not be construed to prevent any employer from discharging an employee for cause nor shall it be construed to prevent a labor union or an agent thereof from requesting the dismissal of an employee when the request is motivated by a cause other than that specified herein.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1512, Sec. 1.)


citation: GOV § 9500

text: As used in this chapter, “clerk” means the engrossing and enrolling clerk or the employee who performs the duties of engrossing and enrolling clerk when no employee is so designated by name.

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citation: GOV § 9501

text: As used in this chapter, “committee” means the engrossing and enrolling committee of the house ordering the engrossing or enrolling of a bill or other document or the committee of such house which performs the duties of engrossing and enrolling committee when no committee is so designated by name.

chapter: 5. Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions


text: The enacting clause of every law shall be “The people of the State of California do enact as follows:”.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1966, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 161.)


citation: GOV § 9502

text: All bills and other documents ordered engrossed or enrolled by the Senate or Assembly shall be delivered by the Secretary of the Senate or Chief Clerk of the Assembly, as the case may be, to the clerk of the house ordering the engrossment or enrollment.


citation: GOV § 9503

text: The clerk shall deliver the bills and documents without delay, in the order of their receipt, to the State Printer.


citation: GOV § 9504

text: The State Printer shall receipt for the bills or documents, and without delay engross or enroll (print) them in the order of their receipt by him. So soon as printed, at least one enrolled copy, with proper blanks for the signatures of the officers whose duty it is to sign enrolled bills and documents, shall be printed on bond paper.


citation: GOV § 9505

text: The State Printer shall deliver the engrossed or enrolled copy of the bill or document, with the original thereof, to the clerk from whom he received the original. The clerk shall carefully compare the engrossed or enrolled copy with the original. If correctly engrossed or enrolled, he shall report it back with the original to the committee.


citation: GOV § 9506

text: All bills and documents that have been printed shall be considered engrossed if no amendments have been made after being printed. The original bill or document shall be delivered to the clerk of the house where it originated. He shall compare the original with the printed bill or document, and forthwith deliver it to the committee for return to the house in the same manner as engrossed bills.


citation: GOV § 9507

text: If the enrolled copy of a bill or other document is found to be correct, the committee shall present it to the proper officers for their signatures. When the officers sign their names thereon, as required by law, it is enrolled.


citation: GOV § 9508

text: Enrolled bills shall be transmitted to the Governor for his approval. Until otherwise provided by the joint rules of the Legislature, enrolled constitutional amendments and enrolled joint and concurrent resolutions shall be transmitted to the Governor and then filed in the office of the Secretary of State.


citation: GOV § 9509

text: As soon as an enrolled bill is delivered to the Governor, it shall be endorsed as follows: “This bill was received by the Governor this ____ day of ____, 20__.” The endorsement shall be signed by the private secretary of the Governor or by any other person designated by the Governor whose designation has been reported to the Speaker of the Assembly and the President pro Tempore of the Senate.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 93.6. Effective January 1, 2003.)


citation: GOV § 9510

text: When the Governor approves a bill, he shall affix his name thereto, with the date of signing, and deposit it in the Office of the Secretary of State, where it becomes the official record. Upon the receipt of any such bill, the Secretary of State shall give it a number, to be known as the chapter number. He shall number each bill in the order in which it is received by him, and the order of numbering shall be presumed to be the order in which the bills were approved by the Governor.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 334.)


text: There shall be two series of bill chapter numbers for each two-year regular session of the Legislature. Bills deposited with the Secretary of State from the beginning of the two-year session through December 31 of the odd-numbered year shall be designated “Statutes of [odd-numbered year], Chapter ____.” Bills deposited with the Secretary of State after December 31 of the odd-numbered year shall be designated “Statutes of [even-numbered year], Chapter ____.” Concurrent resolutions, joint resolutions, and proposed constitutional amendments adopted by the Legislature shall be chaptered as resolution chapters with a different series of numbers than those assigned to bills but shall otherwise be numbered and designated in the same manner as bills enacted into law.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 334.)


citation: GOV § 9511

text: If a bill presented to the Governor contains an item or several items of appropriation, he may object to one or more items while approving other portions of the bill. In such case he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects, and the reasons therefor. If the Legislature is in session, the Governor shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of the statement. The items so objected to shall be separately reconsidered in the same manner as bills which have been disapproved by the Governor.


citation: GOV § 9512

text: When a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature and is returned by the Governor without his signature, and with objections thereto, or if it be a bill containing an item or several items of appropriation which is returned with objections to one or more items, and upon reconsideration the bill, item, or items pass both houses by the constitutional majority, the bill, item, or items shall be authenticated as having become a law by a certificate.


citation: GOV § 9513

text: The certificate shall be indorsed on or attached to the bill, or indorsed on or attached to the copy of the statement of objections. It shall be in the following form: “This bill having been returned by the Governor with his objections thereto, and, after reconsideration, having passed both houses by the constitutional majority, has become a law this ____ day of ____, ____”; or, “The following items in the within statement (naming them) having, after reconsideration, passed both houses by the constitutional majority, have become a law this ____ day of ____, ____.” A certificate signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly is a sufficient authentication thereof.


citation: GOV § 9514

text: The bill or statement so authenticated shall then be delivered to the Governor, and by him deposited with the laws in the Office of the Secretary of State. Bills so deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State shall be given a chapter number in the manner provided in Section 9510.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 5.)


citation: GOV § 9515

text: If on the day the Governor desires to return a bill without his approval and with his objections thereto the house in which it originated has adjourned for the day, he may deliver the bill with his message to the Secretary of the Senate if it originated in the Senate, Chief Clerk of the Assembly if it originated in the Assembly, or any member of the house in which it originated. Such delivery is as effectual as though returned when the house was meeting.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 23.)


citation: GOV § 9516

text:
Except as otherwise provided in this section, every bill which has passed both houses of the Legislature, and has not been returned by the Governor within 12 days, thereby becoming a law, is authenticated by the Governor causing the fact to be certified thereon by the Secretary of State in the following form: “This bill having remained with the Governor 12 days, and the Legislature being in session, it has become a law this ____ day of ____, ____.” The certificate shall be signed by the Secretary of State and deposited with the laws in his office.

Upon the receipt of such a bill and certificate, the Secretary of State shall assign a chapter number to the bill in the manner provided in Section 9510.

Every bill which has been passed by the Legislature before September 1 of the second calendar year of the biennium of the legislative session, which was in the possession of the Governor on or after September 1, and which has not been returned by the Governor on or before September 30 of that year, thereby becoming a law, is authenticated by the Governor causing the fact to be certified thereon by the Secretary of State in the following form: “This bill having been passed by the Legislature before September 1 of the second calendar year of the biennium of the legislative session, having been in the possession of the Governor on or after September 1 of such year, and having remained with the Governor through September 30 of such year, it has become a law this ____ day of ____.” The certificate shall be signed by the Secretary of State and deposited with the laws in his office.

Upon the receipt of such a bill and certificate, the Secretary of State shall assign a chapter number to the bill in the manner provided in Section 9510.


citation: GOV § 9517

text: The Legislature shall finish its actions on the budget required by the Constitution by June 15th of each year.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 980.)


citation: GOV § 9600

text:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a statute enacted at a regular session shall go into effect on January 1 next following a 90-day period from the date of enactment of the statute and a statute enacted at a special session shall go into effect on the 91st day after adjournment of the special session at which the bill was passed.

(b) Statutes calling elections, statutes providing for tax levies or appropriations for the usual current expenses of the state, and urgency statutes shall go into effect immediately upon their enactment.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.)

path: 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA > 2. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT > 6. Operation of Statutes and Resolutions


citation: GOV § 9602

text: Every concurrent and joint resolution takes effect upon the filing of it with the Secretary of State.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 123.)

chapter: 6. Operation of Statutes and Resolutions


citation: GOV § 9603

text: The general rules for the construction of statutes are contained in the preliminary provisions of the different codes.


citation: GOV § 9604

text: When the provisions of one statute are carried into another statute under circumstances in which they are required to be construed as restatements and continuations and not as new enactments, any reference made by any statute, charter or ordinance to such provisions shall, unless a contrary intent appears, be deemed a reference to the restatements and continuations.


citation: GOV § 9605

text:
(a) (1) When a section or part of a statute is amended, it is not to be considered as having been repealed and reenacted in the amended form. The unaltered provisions are to be considered as having been the law from the time when those provisions were enacted. The new provisions are to be considered as having been enacted at the time of the amendment. The omitted provisions are to be considered as having been repealed at the time of the amendment.

(2) When the same section or part of a statute is amended by two or more acts enacted at the same session, any portion of provisions from an earlier one of those successive acts that are omitted by a subsequent act shall be deemed to have been omitted deliberately and any provisions omitted by an earlier act that are restored by a subsequent act shall be deemed to have been restored deliberately.

(b) When the same section or part of a statute is amended by two or more statutes enacted at the same session:

(1) In the absence of any express provision to the contrary in the statute that is enacted last, it shall be conclusively presumed that the statute that is enacted last is intended to prevail over statutes that are enacted earlier at the same session.

(2) In the absence of any express provision to the contrary in the statute with a higher chapter number, it shall be presumed that the statute with a higher chapter number is intended by the Legislature to prevail over a statute that is enacted at the same session with a lower chapter number. For the purposes of this paragraph, every statute enacted in the even-numbered year of a two-year regular session of the Legislature is deemed to bear a higher chapter number than any statute enacted in the odd-numbered year of that session.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 28, Sec. 59. (SB 1380) Effective January 1, 2023.)


citation: GOV § 9606

text: Any statute may be repealed at any time, except when vested rights would be impaired. Persons acting under any statute act in contemplation of this power of repeal.

history: (History: Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)


citation: GOV § 9607

text:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no statute or part of a statute, repealed by another statute, is revived by the repeal of the repealing statute without express words reviving such repealed statute or part of a statute.

(b) If a later enacted statute that deletes or extends the date of termination or repeal of a previously enacted law is chaptered before such date of termination or repeal, the terminated or repealed law is revived when the later enacted statute becomes operative.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 10.)


citation: GOV § 9608

text: The termination or suspension (by whatsoever means effected) of any law creating a criminal offense does not constitute a bar to the indictment or information and punishment of an act already committed in violation of the law so terminated or suspended, unless the intention to bar such indictment or information and punishment is expressly declared by an applicable provision of law.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1943, Ch. 381.)


citation: GOV § 9609

text: A statute amending a section of a repealed statute is void.


citation: GOV § 9610

text: The fixing or authorizing the fixing of the salary of a State officer or employee by statute is not intended to and does not constitute an appropriation of money for the payment of the salary. The salary shall be paid only in the event that moneys are made available therefor by another provision of law.


citation: GOV § 9611

text: Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, whenever a provision of law is temporarily suspended, or is expressly or impliedly modified or repealed by a provision which is declared to be effective for only a limited period, the original provisions are not to be deemed repealed, but upon the expiration of the time of the temporary suspension or the effectiveness of the inconsistent provision, the original provision shall have the same force and effect as if the temporary provision had not been enacted.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 385.)


citation: GOV § 9612

text: Unless the context otherwise requires whenever the terms United States Army, Army of the United States, United States Navy, or military service appear in a statute whether singly or any combination of them, they shall be deemed to include the United States Air Force.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 165.)


citation: GOV § 9700

text: All printing ordered by the Legislature or the Senate or Assembly, and all printing to be charged to legislative printing shall be governed by the joint rules and by the rules of the respective houses insofar as applicable. After final adjournment, the rules in effect at the time of adjournment shall continue to govern until the adoption of rules at the subsequent session.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)

article: 1. General

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citation: GOV § 9701

text: The receipt of the Secretary of the Senate or Chief Clerk of the Assembly is a sufficient voucher for printing for any work done for the house of which the person issuing the receipt is an officer.

chapter: 7. Legislative Printing and Publications

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9702

text: The Secretary of the Senate, in the case of Members and Members-elect of the Senate, and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, in the case of Members and Members-elect of the Assembly, shall, prior to the convening of any session of the Legislature, order the printing of all legislative bills and constitutional amendments which have been approved for printing by the Committee on Rules of the Senate, upon the request of Members and Members-elect of the Senate, or the Committee on Rules of the Assembly, upon the request of Members and Members-elect of the Assembly; provided, that such approval shall not be required as to requests for the printing of bills where such requests are made after the general election by members or members-elect who certify in writing that they intend to introduce such bills at the convening of the session. They shall be printed by the State Printing Office, and the cost paid out of the appropriation for legislative printing.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 299.)

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9703

text: The State Printing Office shall print the laws, including initiative measures adopted by the people, public documents ordered to be printed by the Legislature, the Journals of the Senate and Assembly, and bills, resolutions, and other printing ordered by the Senate or Assembly.

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9704

text: Proceeds from sales of all documents, the cost of publication of which is or has been paid from any appropriation for legislative printing, shall be credited to the General Fund.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 870.)

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9705

text:
The general officers of the Assembly whose names and titles shall appear on the frontpiece of all publications sponsored in whole or in part by the Assembly, are:

(a) The Speaker

(b) The Speaker pro Tempore

(c) The Majority Floor Leader

(d) The Minority Floor Leader

(e) The Chief Clerk.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 9.)

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9706

text: The Legislative Printing Fund in the State Treasury is abolished. The Controller, on the effective date of this section, shall transfer the balance in that fund to the General Fund. Any reference in state law to the Legislative Printing Fund shall be construed to refer to the General Fund.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 870.)

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9708

text: Whenever the Senate or the Assembly undertakes to publish in a separate volume the Constitution of the State of California and related documents, the text of such a volume shall be specified by the Joint Rules Committee.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 618.)

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9720

text: The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall determine what is a sufficient number of copies to supply the members of both houses and chief officers daily during the session with the Journal of the previous day’s proceedings of each house.

article: 2. Daily Journals

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citation: GOV § 9721

text: A sufficient number of copies, with proper repaging, as determined by the Secretary and Chief Clerk, shall also be bound at the end of the session of the Legislature as the Journals of the Senate and Assembly.

article: 2. Daily Journals


citation: GOV § 9722

text: Each daily Journal and the Journals of the Senate and Assembly shall be printed by the State Printing Office. Each daily Journal shall be printed in book form separately, and the Journals of the Senate and Assembly shall be bound in book form.

article: 2. Daily Journals


citation: GOV § 9723

text: One copy of the daily Journal of each house, upon its approval by the house, shall be authenticated as so approved by the chief clerk or secretary of the house.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 316.)

article: 2. Daily Journals


citation: GOV § 9724

text: Upon final adjournment of the Legislature, the authenticated copy of the daily Journal of each house for the entire session shall be properly bound in separate volumes and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State as the official journals of both houses of the Legislature.

article: 2. Daily Journals


citation: GOV § 9740

text: The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall during the month of December in each even-numbered year, commence to compile a legislative manual or handbook. The compilation shall be completed as soon as practical after the convening of the session, and the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall immediately thereafter publish and distribute the legislative manual or handbook, in such manner as they may determine.

article: 3. Legislative Manual

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citation: GOV § 9741

text:
The legislative manual shall be uniform in size and style with similar publications of previous sessions. It shall include:

(a) A list of State officers.

(b) Members and officers of both houses.

(c) Lists of committees.

(d) The rules of both houses and the joint rules.

(e) Other information deemed by the Secretary and Chief Clerk to be of use to Members of the Legislature.

article: 3. Legislative Manual


citation: GOV § 9742

text:
The manual shall be distributed as follows:

(a) To each Senator and Assemblyman as determined by the Rules Committee of the respective houses.

(b) Each elective state officer, one copy.

(c) The State Library, five copies.

(d) Each free public library in the state, one copy.

(e) The Congressional Library at Washington, D.C., five copies.

article: 3. Legislative Manual


citation: GOV § 9743

text: The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall each retain the number of manuals needed for use in the respective houses and for distribution to the Members of the Senate and Assembly for the succeeding session of the Legislature.

article: 3. Legislative Manual


citation: GOV § 9744

text: The remainder shall be sold at a price to be fixed by the Joint Rules Committee. The price shall be sufficient to cover the cost of printing and binding the manual.

article: 3. Legislative Manual


citation: GOV § 9760

text: Whenever a law is signed by the Governor, official notice of the fact shall be forwarded, in writing, to the State Printing Office.

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes

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citation: GOV § 9761

text: Upon the receipt of the notice, the State Printing Office shall print for the use of the Legislature such number of copies of the law, or joint or concurrent resolution, as is provided for by the rules of the Legislature and the necessary number of sheets to make the number of copies of the Statutes required by law to be printed. One composition of type shall answer the purpose of such printing.

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes


citation: GOV § 9762

text: When a new or a revised code is established, it shall be prepared by the Legislative Counsel with all amendments and superseding sections enacted during the session properly inserted, and with proper notes indicating the original text and any intermediate amendments. The code, as enacted, shall not be printed until after thirty days (30) after final adjournment of the Legislature, when it shall be printed by the State Printing Office as prepared by the Legislative Counsel pursuant to this section. The act as so printed shall be included in its proper sequence in the bound volume of the Statutes of the session. This section does not apply to a new or revised code which is enacted as an urgency measure. For the purposes of this section, a code is any act of the Legislature which is entitled a code.

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes


citation: GOV § 9763

text: The Department of General Services shall direct the preparation of the statutes of each session of the Legislature after each regular session. The statutes for each special session shall be cumulated and prepared with the statutes for the next succeeding regular session, except that upon the written request of the Legislative Budget Committee the department shall direct the preparation of the statutes of a particular special session after such special session.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 312.)

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes


citation: GOV § 9764

text: The statutes of each session shall be prepared for printing and publication by the Legislative Counsel, the State Librarian, or such other state agency authorized or required by law to render the service when directed or requested, as the Department of General Services directs or requests in writing.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.)

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes


citation: GOV § 9765

text: Preparation of the statutes shall include the making of an index and statutory record, and the delivery thereof to the State Printing Office as soon as practicable after final adjournment of the Legislature. The date of approval or adoption of each act and its effective date shall be prefixed to its text. The cost of preparation shall be paid from the same source as the cost of printing and publishing the statutes is paid.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1155.)

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes


citation: GOV § 9766

text:
At the beginning of each volume of the statutes there shall be printed:

(a) The Constitution of the state.

(b) The name and place of residence of:

(1) The Governor.

(2) The Lieutenant Governor.

(3) The other executive officers of the state.

(4) The Senators and Members of the Assembly.

(5) The presiding officers of the Senate and Assembly.

(c) The certificate of the Secretary of State showing what acts, or sections or parts of acts of the Legislature are delayed from going into effect by a referendum petition properly certified and filed in his office.

(d) The certificate of the Secretary of State showing the result of all elections upon any initiative or referendum measures submitted to the electors of the state within the previous year.

(e) The text of all such initiative measures adopted by the electors.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 579.)

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes


citation: GOV § 9767

text:
The Office of State Printing shall print the number of copies of the statutes of each session prepared at the direction of the Department of General Services that the Joint Rules Committee determines is necessary.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9768 or any other provision of law, printed copies of the statutes shall only be bound in the number determined by the Department of General Services to be necessary to meet the demand therefor.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 72.)

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes


citation: GOV § 9768

text: The statutes shall be bound in law buckram binding.

article: 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes


citation: GOV § 9790

text: The Department of General Services shall maintain a bill-filing room for the Senate and Assembly, and file all bills, resolutions, journals and other documents ordered by the Senate or Assembly. It shall also place all such bills, resolutions, journals and other documents in binders for the use of the Members of the Legislature and perform such other duties in connection with their filing and distribution as may be required by the rules or special orders of either house.

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citation: GOV § 9791

text:
The laws, resolutions and journals of the Legislature shall be distributed by the Department of General Services as follows:

(a) To the Library of Congress, two copies.

(b) To the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, each Member of the Legislature, the Secretary of the Senate, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and the Legislative Auditor, one copy each.

(c) To the State Library, 60 copies or as many more as the State Librarian may require for exchange purposes, and to each county law library, one copy.

(d) To the Attorney General, six copies, and as many additional copies as may be requested, not exceeding the number necessary to supply each Assistant Attorney General, and each Deputy Attorney General with one copy of each.

(e) To the Legislative Counsel Bureau, as many copies as may be requested, not exceeding the number necessary to supply one copy of each for the use of the Legislative Counsel and each Deputy Legislative Counsel.

(f) To the State Supreme Court, 11 copies and as many additional copies as may be requested not to exceed four copies.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.)

article: 5. Distribution of Statutes and Legislative Publications


citation: GOV § 9792

text: All other copies of the laws, resolutions and journals shall be sold by the Department of General Services at such price as it may fix.


citation: GOV § 9795

text:
(a) (1) Any report required or requested by law, or identified in the Legislative Analyst’s Supplemental Report of the Budget Act, to be submitted by a state or local agency to a committee of the Legislature or the Members of either house of the Legislature generally, shall instead be submitted as an electronic copy to the Secretary of the Senate, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and the Legislative Counsel. Each report shall include a summary of its contents, not to exceed one page in length. If the report is submitted by a state agency, that agency shall also provide an electronic copy of the summary directly to each Member of the appropriate house or houses of the Legislature. Notice of receipt of the report shall also be recorded in the journal of the appropriate house or houses of the Legislature by the secretary or clerk of that house.

(2) In addition to, and as part of, the information made available to the public in electronic form pursuant to Section 10248, the Legislative Counsel shall make available a list of the reports submitted by state and local agencies, as specified in paragraph (1). If the Legislative Counsel receives a request from a member of the public for a report contained in the list, the Legislative Counsel is not required to provide a copy of the report and may refer the requester to the state or local agency, as the case may be, that authored the report, or to the California State Library as the final repository of public information.

(b) A report shall not be distributed to a Member of the Legislature unless specifically requested by that Member.

(c) Compliance with subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be full compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 10242.5.

(d) A state agency report and summary subject to this section shall include an internet website where the report can be downloaded and a telephone number to call to order a hard copy of the report. A report submitted by a state agency subject to this section shall also be posted at the agency’s internet website.

(e) For purposes of this section, “report” includes any study or audit.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 20, Sec. 18. (AB 137) Effective June 30, 2025.)

article: 6. Reports to the Legislature

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citation: GOV § 9900

text:
Short title

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Legislative Reform Act of 1983.”

history: (History: Added June 5, 1984, by initiative Proposition 24.)

chapter: 8. Legislative Reform

article: 1. General

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citation: GOV § 9901

text:
Findings and declaration.

The people find and declare:

(a) All citizens of the State are entitled to full and effective representation by their elected representatives.

(b) In recent years spending for the support of the Legislature has increased at a rate greatly exceeding the growth in spending for most other state functions, severely damaging the image and credibility of the Legislature with the people of California.

(c) In the absence of reasonable oversight and constraints, powerful individual lawmakers exercise virtually exclusive control over legislative spending, depriving the people of California and other lawmakers of an effective means of discovering how these monies are being spent or of judging the propriety of those expenditures.

(d) The distribution of funding, staff, and informational resources in the Legislature according to predominantly partisan criteria has greatly hindered the ability of minority party representatives to provide effective legislative representation.

(e) The concentration of power in the office of Speaker of the Assembly and, to a lesser extent, in the office of President pro Tempore of the Senate, has created a system of patronage and punishment through which a single legislator, accountable only to the people of a single legislative district, is able to wield greatly disproportionate influence over the laws of California.

(f) The growth in abusive voting practices in the Legislature and its committees has worked to deprive the people of their right to monitor the performance of their legislative representatives and respond accordingly.

(g) The Legislature’s refusal to adhere to statutory and traditional notice and publication requirements for committee hearings and reports of conference committees has deprived the public of its right to make effective input into the legislative process.

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9902

text:
Purposes of chapter

The people enact this chapter to accomplish the following purposes:

(a) Appropriations for the support of the Legislature should be reduced by thirty percent from 1983–84 budgeted levels and future growth in legislative spending should be limited to a rate commensurate with the growth of state government spending in general.

(b) Control over legislative spending should be removed from the hands of powerful individual lawmakers and there should be established a system of independent monitoring of legislative spending practices and increased disclosure of legislative spending levels.

(c) All Members of the Legislature, regardless of partisan affiliation, should be provided with equal opportunity and resources to effectively serve their constituents. The minority party or parties in each house of the Legislature should be provided with resources, funding, and a policy-making voice proportionate with their numbers in that house in order to achieve the end of fair and effective representation for all.

(d) No single Member of the Legislature should be given extraordinary power to influence the course of legislation nor the power to punish other members for the good faith exercise of their free will and judgment on behalf of their constituents.

(e) No system of legislative voting which serves to deny or obscure the people’s right to know how their representatives vote should be permitted in the Legislature.

(f) The people have the right to have notice of, see, and express their feelings on all proposed changes in the laws, including those changes proposed in reports of conference committees, and any knowing and willful violation of these rights should be a criminal offense and the laws passed in violation thereof invalidated.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 131, Sec. 71. (AB 1754) Effective January 1, 2024.)

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9903

text:
Construction of chapter

This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes.

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9904

text:
Amendment or repeal of chapter; procedures

This chapter may be amended only by the procedures set forth in this section. If any portion of subsection (a) is declared invalid, then subsection (b) shall be the exclusive means of amending or repealing this chapter.

(a) This chapter may be amended only to further its purposes and only by statute, passed in each house by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring and signed by the Governor, if at least 20 days prior to passage in each house the bill in its final form has been printed and made available for public inspection.

(b) This chapter may be amended or repealed by a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the electors.

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9905

text:
Imposition of additional requirements; law governing

Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the Legislature from imposing additional requirements on itself if the requirements do not conflict with the purposes of this chapter. If any act of the Legislature conflicts with the provisions of this chapter, this chapter shall prevail.

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9906

text:
Severability

If any provision of this chapter, or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter to the extent it can be given effect, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9907

text:
Effective date

This chapter shall go into effect immediately. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all changes in the structure or operation of the Legislature required by this chapter, including but not limited to the adoption of rules in accordance with Section 9920 and 9921, the reorganization of the Senate Committee on Rules, the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Joint Rules Committee, and all standing, special, select, and joint committees of the Legislature, including the reallocation of staff resources, in accordance with Sections 9911, 9915, 9917, 9922, 9923, and 9924, and the reduction in funding for support of the Legislature pursuant to Section 9934, shall be implemented upon the first meeting of the Legislature in regular or special session subsequent to enactment of this chapter.

article: 1. General


citation: GOV § 9910

text:
Speaker of the Assembly

The Speaker is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Assembly.

The Speaker shall be elected upon organization of the Assembly at the beginning of each regular or special session and shall serve until adjournment sine die of that session, unless removed pursuant to Section 9173 and a successor chosen pursuant to the rules of the Assembly.

article: 2. Legislative Powers and Duties

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citation: GOV § 9911

text:
Assembly Committee on Rules

There is hereby created in the Assembly a Committee on Rules, which shall consist of the Speaker, who shall be the chairman of the committee, and six other Members of the Assembly, three to be elected by the party having the largest number of Members in the Assembly and three to be elected by the party having the second largest number of Members. The Assembly Committee on Rules has a continuing existence and may meet and act during sessions of the Legislature or any recess thereof and in the interim periods between sessions. The committee shall have all the powers and authority provided in Section 11 of Article IV of the Constitution of California, in this article, and as provided in the rules of the Assembly.

article: 2. Legislative Powers and Duties


citation: GOV § 9912

text:
Powers of the Assembly Committee on Rules

(a) The Assembly Committee on Rules shall have the power:

(1) To assign all bills to Assembly committees.

(2) To appoint the Chairmen and Vice-chairmen of all other Assembly Committees, provided that the Chairman and Vice-chairman of each committee must be members of different parties.

(3) To have general direction over the Assembly Chamber and rooms set aside for the use of the Assembly, including the rooms for use by Members as private offices.

(4) To allocate all funds, staffing, and other resources necessary for the effective operation of the Assembly. Except as provided otherwise by affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the total membership of the committee, all funds, staffing, and resources shall be allocated proportionately by party.

(5) To exercise such other powers and perform such duties as may be provided by statute enacted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, or in the rules of the Assembly.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, neither the Chairman nor any member or agent of the Assembly Committee on Rules shall have the power to perform any action on behalf of the committee, including but not limited to the making of contracts, the payment of claims, the allocation of office space, or the hiring or dismissal of staff, without the express authorization of two thirds of the total membership of the committee. Such authorization shall apply only to the matter or matters under immediate consideration.

article: 2. Legislative Powers and Duties


citation: GOV § 9913

text:
Appointments by the speaker; confirmation by Assembly Committee on Rules

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all statutory appointments delegated to the Speaker of the Assembly are subject to confirmation by the Assembly Committee on Rules, two thirds of the membership thereof concurring.

article: 2. Legislative Powers and Duties


citation: GOV § 9914

text:
President pro tempore of the senate

The President pro Tempore is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Senate.

The President pro Tempore shall be elected upon organization of the Senate at the beginning of each regular or special session and shall serve until adjournment sine die of that session, unless removed pursuant to Section 9173 and a successor chosen pursuant to the rules of the Senate.

article: 2. Legislative Powers and Duties


citation: GOV § 9915

text:
Senate Committee on Rules

There is hereby created in the Senate a Committee on Rules, which shall consist of the President pro Tempore of the Senate, who shall be the chairman of the committee, and four other Members of the Senate, two to be elected by the party having the largest number of Members in the Senate and two to be elected by the party having the second largest number of Members. The Senate Committee on Rules has a continuing existence and may meet and act during sessions of the Legislature or any recess thereof and in the interim periods between sessions. The committee shall have all the powers and authority provided in Section 11 of Article IV of the Constitution of California, in this article, and as provided in the rules of the Senate.

article: 2. Legislative Powers and Duties


citation: GOV § 9916

text:
Powers of the Senate Committee on Rules

(a) The Senate Committee on Rules shall have the power:

(1) To assign all bills to Senate committees.

(2) To appoint the Chairmen and Vice-chairmen of all other Senate committees, provided that the Chairman and Vice-chairman of each committee must be members of different parties.

(3) To have general direction over the Senate Chamber and rooms set aside for the use of the Senate, including the rooms for use by Members as private offices.

(4) To allocate all funds, staffing, and other resources necessary for the effective operation of the Senate. Except as decided otherwise by affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the total membership of the committee, all funds, staffing, and resources shall be allocated proportionately by party.

(5) To exercise such other powers and perform such duties as may be provided by statute enacted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, or in the rules of the Senate.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, neither the Chairman nor any member or agent of the Senate Committee on Rules shall have the power to perform any action on behalf of the committee, including but not limited to the making of contracts, the payment of claims, the allocation of office space, or the hiring or dismissal of staff, without the express authorization of two thirds of the membership of the committee. Such authorization shall apply only to the matter or matters under immediate consideration.

article: 2. Legislative Powers and Duties


citation: GOV § 9917

text:
Joint rules committee

(a) There is hereby created the Joint Rules Committee which shall be comprised of the combined membership of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules as specified in this article and two other Members of the Senate, one to be elected by the party having the largest number of Members in the Senate and one to be elected by the party having the second largest number of Members. The committee herein created has a continuing existence and may meet and act during sessions of the Legislature or any recess thereof and in the interim periods between sessions. The committee shall have all the powers and authority provided in Section 11 of Article IV of the Constitution of California, this title, and in the joint rules of the Legislature. Any action of the committee shall require an affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the Senate members and a majority of the Assembly members of the committee, except that any action which involves or anticipates the expenditure or allocation of funds shall require an affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the Senate members and two thirds of the Assembly members. Any reference in any code or statute to the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization shall be deemed a reference to the Joint Rules Committee.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, neither the Chairman nor any member or agent of the Joint Rules Committee shall have the power to perform any action on behalf of the committee, including but not limited to the making of contracts, the payment of claims, the allocation of office space, or the hiring or dismissal of staff, without the express authorization of two thirds of the membership of the committee. Such authorization shall apply only to the matter or matters under immediate consideration.

article: 2. Legislative Powers and Duties


citation: GOV § 9920

text:
Rules

Each house of the Legislature shall adopt rules for its proceedings for each regular and special session by resolution adopted by an affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of the house in question. No rule of either the Senate or Assembly shall be amended except by resolution adopted by an affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the Members of that house. Any standing rule of either house may be suspended temporarily by a vote of two thirds of the Members of that house present and voting; provided, that in no case may a rule be suspended in the absence of a quorum. Any such temporary suspension shall apply only to the matter under immediate consideration, and in no case shall it extend beyond an adjournment.

article: 3. Legislative Rules and Procedures

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citation: GOV § 9921

text:
Joint Rules

The Senate and Assembly shall adopt rules for their joint proceedings for each regular and special session by resolution adopted by an affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of each house. No joint rule so adopted may be amended except by resolution adopted by an affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of each house. The Senate and Assembly may provide for temporary suspension of a joint rule by a single house upon the affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the members of that house; provided, that the temporary suspension shall apply only to the matter under immediate consideration, and in no case shall it extend beyond an adjournment.

article: 3. Legislative Rules and Procedures


citation: GOV § 9922

text:
Standing committees

All standing committees of both the Senate and the Assembly, except the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules, shall be created and the size and jurisdiction thereof established through the adoption of or amendment to the rules of the respective houses by resolution, two thirds of the membership of the house in question concurring. Committee membership shall be determined in the following manner:

(a). The membership of each committee shall be proportional to the partisan composition of the house in question.

(b). Majority party members of each committee shall be selected by the majority party in a manner to be determined by the party caucus in each house.

(c). Minority party members of each committee shall be selected by the minority party or parties, in a manner to be determined by the party caucus or caucuses in each house.

(d). The Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules shall provide for the necessary and reasonable expenses of all committees of their respective houses pursuant to the provisions of Sections 9912 and 9916.

(e) The majority party in each house shall be that party with the largest number of Members in that house. Each other party with membership in the house shall be a minority party.

article: 3. Legislative Rules and Procedures


citation: GOV § 9923

text:
Special and select committees; subcommittees

No special or select committees nor any subcommittee shall be established in either the Senate or the Assembly except by affirmative vote of two thirds of the Committee on Rules of the house in question. Membership of special or select committees or subcommittees shall be determined according to the provisions of Section 9922. For purposes of this title, “special” and “select” committees or subcommittees include all committees or subcommittees which are not standing committees of either house or joint committees of the two houses.

article: 3. Legislative Rules and Procedures


citation: GOV § 9924

text:
Joint committees

No joint committee shall be established except by passage of concurrent resolution, two thirds of the membership of each house concurring. The membership of each joint committee shall be allocated equally between the Senate and the Assembly, and the delegation from each house shall be chosen pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 9922.

article: 3. Legislative Rules and Procedures


citation: GOV § 9925

text:
Member voting

Each house of the Legislature shall provide in its rules for appropriate voting procedures on the floor and in committees or subcommittees; provided, that no Member shall be allowed to cast a vote for another Member, nor shall any Member be allowed to change his or her vote or add a vote to the roll after the vote is announced, without the consent of four fifths of the membership of the house, nor shall any vote be taken in any committee or subcommittee of either house in the absence of a quorum, except a vote to adjourn.

article: 3. Legislative Rules and Procedures


citation: GOV § 9930

text:
Legislative contingent funds

All appropriations for contingent expenses of the Legislature and committees thereof shall be deposited in and credited to the following funds, which funds are created in the State Treasury:

(a) Appropriations for the contingent expenses of the Senate and committees thereof shall be deposited in the Senate Contingent Fund, and shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(b) Appropriations for the contingent expenses of the Assembly and committees thereof shall be deposited in the Assembly Contingent Fund, and shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Assembly Committee on Rules in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(c) Appropriations for the contingent and joint expenses of the Senate and Assembly and committees thereof shall be deposited in the Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly, and shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Joint Rules Committee in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

article: 4. Legislative Funds and Administration

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citation: GOV § 9931

text:
Disbursements from Senate Contingent Fund and Assembly Contingent Fund

Except as provided by affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of the rules committee having powers of direction under Section 9930, all disbursements from the Senate Contingent Fund and the Assembly Contingent Fund shall be divided proportionately according to the partisan composition of the house in question.

article: 4. Legislative Funds and Administration


citation: GOV § 9932

text:
Disbursements from Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly

No disbursements shall be made from the Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly except as provided by vote of the Joint Rules Committee, two thirds of the total membership thereof concurring.

article: 4. Legislative Funds and Administration


citation: GOV § 9933

text:
Disbursement of money appropriated for legislative printing

Any money appropriated for legislative printing shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Senate or Assembly as provided in the rules of the Senate or Assembly or their joint rules, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 9931 and 9932.

article: 4. Legislative Funds and Administration


citation: GOV § 9934

text:
Limits upon public expenditure

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 30 days following the enactment of this chapter, the total amount of monies appropriated for the support of the Legislature, including but not limited to all monies appropriated to the Senate Contingent Fund, the Assembly Contingent Fund, the Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly, for legislative printing, and for aids to the Legislature as described in Part 2 of this title, shall be reduced by an amount equal to thirty percent of the total amount of monies appropriated for support of the Legislature for the 1983–84 fiscal year, and the amount so reduced shall revert to the General Fund. For each fiscal year thereafter, the total amount of monies appropriated for support of the Legislature shall not exceed an amount equal to that expended for support in the preceding fiscal year, adjusted and compounded by an amount equal to the percentage increase or decrease in state General Fund spending for that fiscal year.

article: 4. Legislative Funds and Administration


citation: GOV § 9935

text:
Continuous availability of funds; special accounts

Except as described in Section 9934 and this Section, appropriations deposited in and credited to the Senate Contingent Fund, the Assembly Contingent Fund, or the Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly, shall be continuously available without regard to fiscal years. Appropriations made at extraordinary or special sessions for the expenses of said sessions shall be maintained as separate accounts within the particular funds and shall be available for expenditure for such purpose for the duration of said sessions, and the unexpended balance of any such appropriation shall revert to the General Fund upon the adjournment sine die of the special session or sessions for which it was appropriated.

article: 4. Legislative Funds and Administration


citation: GOV § 9936

text:
Reports to public on expenditures made from contingent funds; contents

(a) For the periods beginning December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1 of each year, the Assembly Committee on Rules, Senate Committee on Rules, and the Joint Rules Committee shall quarterly issue a report to the public on the expenditures made from the contingent fund subject to their direction and control. The report shall include, but need not be limited to, a listing of total expenditures for each Member and committee of the Legislature in the following categories:

(1) Out-of-state travel and living expense reimbursement and in-state travel and living expense reimbursement.

(2) Automotive expenses.

(3) Rent

(4) Telephone.

(5) Postage.

(6) Printing.

(7) Office supplies.

(8) Newsletters.

(9) Per diem for attendance at legislative sessions.

(10) Staff salaries and expenses.

(11) Contracts entered into with any other party.

(b) Each report shall be completed, published, and made available to the public within 30 calendar days following the completion of the reporting period.

(c) For the period ending on November 30 of each year, the Assembly Committee on Rules, Senate Committee on rules, and the Joint Rules Committee shall annually issue a report to the public on the expenditures made from the contingent fund subject to their direction and control. The report shall include, but need not be limited to, a listing of total expenditures for each Member and committee of the Legislature in the categories described in subdivision (a). Each report shall be completed, published, and made available to the public within 90 calendar days following the completion of the reporting period.

article: 4. Legislative Funds and Administration


citation: GOV § 9937

text:
Independent audit of contingent funds

The Joint Rules Committee shall annually contract for an independent audit of the revenues and expenditures, for each fiscal year, from the Assembly Contingent Fund, Senate Contingent Fund, and the Contingent Funds of the Assembly and Senate. The organization performing the audit shall be subject to approval by the Fair Political Practices Commission. The audit shall include, but need not be limited to, an evaluation of the accuracy of the expenditures described in Section 9936 and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal auditing procedures of the individual rules committees.

The audit shall be completed and made available to the public within 180 calendar days following the completion of the fiscal year for which the audit is performed.

article: 4. Legislative Funds and Administration


text: There is in the State Government the Legislative Counsel Bureau. The bureau is in charge of a chief, who is a civil executive officer and who shall be known as the Legislative Counsel of California.

chapter: 1. Legislative Counsel

article: 1. General

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text: The Legislative Counsel shall be selected by concurrent resolution at the beginning of each regular session and shall serve until his or her successor is selected and qualified.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 62, Sec. 112. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 1. General


text: If a vacancy occurs while the Legislature is not in session, a committee consisting of the Speaker of the Assembly, the Speaker pro Tempore of the Assembly, the President pro Tempore of the Senate and the chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate shall select the Legislative Counsel to serve until the Legislature in session makes a selection for the office.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 62, Sec. 113. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 1. General


text: The Legislative Counsel shall be chosen without reference to party affiliations and solely on the ground of fitness to perform the duties of his or her office.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 62, Sec. 114. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 1. General


text: The annual salary of the Legislative Counsel is twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or such greater amount as may be prescribed by the Joint Rules Committee. The Legislative Counsel shall be repaid all actual expenses incurred or paid by him or her in the discharge of his or her duties.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 62, Sec. 115. Effective January 1, 2004.)

article: 1. General


text:
(a) The Legislative Counsel may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional assistants and clerical and other employees as he or she deems necessary for the effective conduct of the work under his or her charge.

(b) The Legislative Counsel and the employees of the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall, to the extent that funds appropriated for the support of the Legislative Counsel Bureau include funds for that purpose, receive any or all of the employee benefits provided to employees of either house of the Legislature. The benefits that are authorized by this subdivision shall be in addition to any other employee benefits authorized by any other provision of law.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 19853, the Legislative Counsel and the employees of the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall observe any holiday designated pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 19853, that is also observed by the Legislature, on the same day that the holiday is observed by the Legislature.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1124, Sec. 11. Effective September 30, 2002.)

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(a) Notwithstanding Sections 18523, 18900, 18901, 18930, 18930.5, 18931, 18933, 18936, 18937, 18938.5, 18939, 18950, 19050, 19052, 19054, 19054.1, 19057, 19057.1, 19057.2, 19057.4, 19081, and 19101, or any other provision of law, but consistent with the merit principles of subdivision (b) of Section 1 of Article VII of the California Constitution, the Legislative Counsel Bureau appointing authority may assign persons to classifications and ranges, conduct examinations, and make appointments as specified by this section. The purpose of this section is to improve the management of the Legislative Data Center, a division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, and to provide the Legislative Counsel Bureau with greater flexibility and adaptability reflective of the information technology profession.

(b) The Legislative Counsel Bureau appointing authority may, as a consolidation of the information technology classifications otherwise available to the bureau, utilize the band classifications of information systems supervisor/manager, information technology specialist, and information technician, as available to the bureau on January 1, 2003, under the demonstration project described in Section 1 of the act that added this section, as those classifications may subsequently be modified by the State Personnel Board, or into other information technology classifications established by the State Personnel Board. Each of these band classifications is hereby divided into the ranges that existed in that classification on January 1, 2003, under that demonstration project, which ranges may be modified as provided for by the State Personnel Board, including the delegation of authority to the Legislative Counsel Bureau appointing authority.

(c) Through the delegation of authority to the Legislative Counsel Bureau appointing authority or otherwise, the State Personnel Board shall provide for the allocation, as appropriate, of employees of the bureau having civil service status to the appropriate classification and range authorized pursuant to this section and shall grant to each employee the same civil service status in that classification and range without further examination.

(d) The Legislative Counsel Bureau appointing authority may conduct competitive examinations on a position-by-position basis for the information technology classifications described in this section and make appointments for information technology positions either in the manner described in Article 6 (commencing with Section 549.70) of Subchapter 4 of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of Title 2 of the California Code of Regulations in effect on January 1, 2003, or in any other manner approved by the State Personnel Board. In its exercise of authority under this subdivision pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 549.70) of Subchapter 4 of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of Title 2 of the California Code of Regulations, the Legislative Counsel Bureau appointing authority shall rank each examination candidate in the manner specified in Article 4 (commencing with Section 548.30) and Article 5 (commencing with Section 548.40) of Subchapter 2 of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of Title 2 of the California Code of Regulations.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 183, Sec. 141. Effective January 1, 2005.)

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text: The permanent office of the Legislative Counsel shall be in the State Capitol in Sacramento, where he or she shall be provided with suitable and sufficient offices convenient to the chambers of the Senate and Assembly. For the convenience of Members of the Legislature, and when in his or her judgment the conduct of his or her work requires, he or she may maintain temporary offices at other places in the state.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 62, Sec. 116. Effective January 1, 2004.)

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(a) The Legislative Counsel shall maintain the attorney-client relationship with each Member of the Legislature with respect to communications between the member and the Legislative Counsel except as otherwise provided by the rules of the Legislature. All materials arising out of this relationship, including, but not limited to, proposed bills and amendments, analyses, opinions, and memoranda prepared by the Legislative Counsel, are not public records, except as otherwise provided by the rules of the Legislature or when released by the member for whom the material was prepared. When he or she determines that the public interest so requires, the Legislative Counsel may release any material arising out of the attorney-client relationship with a former Member of the Legislature who is not available to execute a release.

(b) (1) The Legislative Counsel shall maintain the attorney-client relationship with the Governor with respect to communications between the Governor and the Legislative Counsel. All materials arising out of this relationship, including, but not limited to, legal services concerning any bill in the Governor’s hands for rejection, approval, or other action, legal services concerning any legal opinion provided to the Governor, and legal services concerning any matter as the circumstances permit and the Governor requests, prepared by the Legislative Counsel, are not public records, except when released by the Governor. When he or she determines that the public interest so requires, the Legislative Counsel may release any material arising out of the attorney-client relationship with a former Governor who is not available to execute a release.

(2) Whenever the Legislative Counsel issues an opinion to the Governor analyzing the constitutionality, operation, or effect of a bill or other legislative measure that is then pending before the Legislature, or of any amendment made or proposed to be made to that bill or measure, the Legislative Counsel shall deliver two copies of the opinion to the first-named author of the bill or measure as promptly as feasible after delivery of the original opinion, and shall also deliver a copy to any other author of the bill or measure who requests a copy.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 146, Sec. 65.5. Effective January 1, 1995.)

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text: Neither the Legislative Counsel nor any other employee of the bureau shall reveal to any person outside thereof the contents or nature of any matter which has not become a public record, except with the consent of the person bringing the matter before the bureau.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)

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text: The material, including books and other publications, of the State Library shall be made available to the bureau. The University of California, all State agencies and other official State organizations, and all persons connected therewith shall give the Legislative Counsel ready access to their records and full information and reasonable assistance in any matters of research requiring recourse to them or to data within their knowledge or control.

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text: Subject to Article 3 (commencing with Section 10270), neither the Legislative Counsel nor any employee of the bureau shall oppose or urge legislation.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 46, Sec. 16. (SB 1038) Effective June 27, 2012.)

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text: The Legislative Counsel, or any deputy legislative counsel, may administer and certify oaths.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 575.)

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text: The Legislative Counsel shall be in attendance upon all regular and special sessions of the Legislature.

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text: The Legislative Counsel shall prepare and assist in the preparation, amendment and consideration of legislative measures when requested or upon suggestion as herein provided.

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(a) A bill that, as introduced or amended in either house of the Legislature, would require a state agency to submit a report on any subject to either house of the Legislature generally, a committee or office of either house of the Legislature, or the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall include a provision that repeals the reporting requirement, or makes the requirement inoperative, no later than a date four years following the date upon which the bill, as enacted, becomes operative or four years after the due date of any report required every four or more years. If the bill requires that the report be submitted to either house of the Legislature generally, it shall also include a provision that requires the report to be submitted pursuant to Section 9795.

(b) The Legislative Counsel, in drafting a bill for introduction or an amendment to a bill that would impose a reporting requirement described in subdivision (a), shall include a provision that repeals the reporting requirement, or makes the reporting requirement inoperative, four years after the date on which the requirement becomes operative, unless the person requesting the bill or amendment directs the Legislative Counsel to do otherwise. If the bill requires that the report be submitted to either house of the Legislature generally, the Legislative Counsel shall also include a provision that requires the report to be submitted pursuant to Section 9795.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 7, Sec. 2. (AB 1585) Effective February 26, 2010.)

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text: Upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall advise any State agency as to the preparation of measures to be submitted to the Legislature.

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text: Upon request, the Legislative Counsel may provide legal services to the State Auditor.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 890, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1994.)

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text: Insofar as in his power, upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall aid and assist any member of the Legislature as to bills, resolutions and measures, drafting them into proper form, and furnishing to the member the fullest information upon all matters in the scope of the bureau.

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text: The Legislative Counsel shall give such consideration to and service concerning any measure before the Legislature as circumstances will permit, and which is in any way requested by the Governor, the Senate or Assembly, or any committee of the Legislature having the measure before it for consideration.

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(a) The Legislative Counsel shall give such consideration to and service concerning any bill in the Governor’s hands for rejection, approval, or other action, as the circumstances will permit and the Governor requests.

(b) Upon request, the Legislative Counsel may provide to the Governor an opinion, orally or in writing, upon any question of law.

(c) The Legislative Counsel may provide additional legal services to the Governor concerning any matter as the circumstances permit and the Governor requests.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 890, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1994.)

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text: Upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall advise as to its work with any legislative committee appointed to carry on investigations.

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text: The Legislative Counsel shall prepare or assist in the preparation or amendment of legislative measures at the written suggestion of any judge of the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, or of the superior courts of the state.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 17.)

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text: Every suggestion of a judge shall set forth the substance of the provisions desired or which may be needed with the reasons therefor.

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text: A suggestion by a judge of the Supreme Court shall be filed with the clerk of that court. A suggestion by a judge of a court of appeal shall be filed with the clerk of that court. A suggestion by a judge of a superior court shall be filed with the clerk of the court of appeal of the district within which the superior court is located.

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text: When a suggestion is so filed with the clerk, he shall make and send to the permanent office of the Legislative Counsel a certified copy of the suggestion. All suggestions received at the permanent office shall be permanently filed and recorded and copies furnished to the Legislative Counsel.

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text: The Legislative Counsel shall prepare a measure in accordance with the suggestion of a judge, and shall transmit it to the chairman of the judiciary committee of each house at the next session of the Legislature.

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text: The Legislative Counsel shall advise the Legislature from time to time as to legislation necessary to maintain the codes and legislation necessary to codify such statutes as are enacted from time to time subsequent to the enactment of the codes. Such recommendations shall include such restatement without substantive change as will best serve clearly and correctly to express the existing provisions of the law.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1445.)

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(a) The Legislative Counsel shall annually prepare, publish, and maintain an electronic list of all reports that state and local agencies are required or requested by law to prepare and file with the Governor or the Legislature, or both, in the future or within the preceding year. The list shall include all of the following information:

(1) The name of the agency that is required or requested to prepare and file the report.

(2) A brief description of the subject of the report.

(3) The date on which the report is to be completed and filed.

(4) The date on which the report was filed with the Legislative Counsel.

(b) The Legislative Counsel shall make the list of reports available to the public on an internet website and shall annually provide to each Member of the Legislature a hyperlink to the internet website whereby the list can be accessed.

(c) (1) Each state and local agency that is required or requested by law to prepare a report described in subdivision (a) shall file an electronic copy of the report with the Legislative Counsel. If the report is posted on an internet website, the agency filing the electronic copy shall provide to the Legislative Counsel a hyperlink whereby the report may be accessed.

(2) The Legislative Counsel shall include, on the internet website it maintains for purposes of this section, any hyperlinks provided by state and local agencies pursuant to paragraph (1).

(d) As used in this section:

(1) “Agency” includes any city, county, special district, department, board, bureau, or commission, including any task force or other similar body that is created by statute or resolution. “Agency” does not include the University of California.

(2) “Report” includes any study or audit.

(e) The Legislative Counsel shall update the list required by subdivision (a) by removing duplicate reports from the list. The Legislative Counsel shall also remove reports from the list as directed by Section 4 of Chapter 7 of the Statutes of 2010, or a subsequent statute that further requires the Legislative Counsel to remove reports included in the list.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 20, Sec. 19. (AB 137) Effective June 30, 2025.)

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The Legislative Counsel shall cooperate with the proponents of an initiative measure in its preparation when:

(a) Requested in writing so to do by 25 or more electors proposing the measure; and

(b) In the judgment of the Legislative Counsel there is reasonable probability that the measure will be submitted to the voters of the State under the laws relating to the submission of initiatives.

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text: The Legislative Counsel may contract, at not less than cost and subject to regulations approved by the Director of General Services, with any county or city for the codification, compilation, or indexing of any or all of its ordinances or resolutions. All money received by the Legislative Counsel pursuant to such contracts shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit and in augmentation of the current appropriation for the support of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.)

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text: The Legislative Counsel may cooperate with any educational institution of the State in any manner approved by the Legislative Counsel and such institution.

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text: The Legislative Counsel shall not appear in any action or proceeding in the courts of this state or of the United States without the prior approval of the Joint Rules Committee. If the existence of said committee terminates such approval may be given in writing by the Speaker of the Assembly and the President pro Tempore of the Senate. Nothing in this section shall prevent the Legislature from giving its approval for such appearance by concurrent resolution.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 618.)

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text: When a bill is introduced in the Legislature and each time a bill is amended, on or after January 1, 1990, the Legislative Counsel shall determine whether the bill appropriates funds that apply toward the minimum funding for school districts and community college districts required pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. The Legislative Counsel shall make this determination known in the Legislative Counsel’s Digest of the bill and shall describe in the digest the basis for this determination.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1256, Sec. 33. Effective October 1, 1989.)

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text:
Public computer network; required legislative information.

(a) The Legislative Counsel shall, with the advice of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, make all of the following information available to the public in electronic form:

(1) The legislative calendar, the schedule of legislative committee hearings, a list of matters pending on the floors of both houses of the Legislature, and a list of the committees of the Legislature and their members.

(2) The text of each bill introduced in each current legislative session, including each amended, enrolled, and chaptered form of each bill.

(3) The bill history of each bill introduced and amended in each current legislative session.

(4) The bill status of each bill introduced and amended in each current legislative session.

(5) All bill analyses prepared by legislative committees in connection with each bill in each current legislative session.

(6) All audiovisual recordings of legislative proceedings that have been caused to be made by the Legislature in accordance with paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 7 of Article IV of the California Constitution. Each recording shall remain accessible to the public through the Internet and downloadable for a minimum period of 20 years following the date on which the recording was made and shall then be archived in a secure format.

(7) All vote information concerning each bill in each current legislative session.

(8) Any veto message concerning a bill in each current legislative session.

(9) The California Codes.

(10) The California Constitution.

(11) All statutes enacted on or after January 1, 1993.

(12) A link to the list of state and local agency reports required by paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 9795.

(b) The information identified in subdivision (a) shall be made available to the public by means of access by way of the largest nonproprietary, nonprofit cooperative public computer network. The information shall be made available in one or more formats and by one or more means in order to provide the greatest feasible access to the general public in this state. Any person who accesses the information may access all or any part of the information. The information may also be made available by any other means of access that would facilitate public access to the information. The information that is maintained in the legislative information system that is operated and maintained by the Legislative Counsel shall be made available in the shortest feasible time after the information is available in the information system. The information that is not maintained in the information system shall be made available in the shortest feasible time after it is available to the Legislative Counsel.

(c) Any documentation that describes the electronic digital formats of the information identified in subdivision (a) and is available to the public shall be made available by means of access by way of the computer network specified in subdivision (b).

(d) Personal information concerning a person who accesses the information may be maintained only for the purpose of providing service to the person.

(e) The Legislative Counsel shall not impose a fee or other charge as a condition of accessing the information that is accessible by way of the computer network specified in subdivision (b).

(f) The electronic public access provided by way of the computer network specified in subdivision (b) shall be in addition to other electronic or print distribution of the information.

(g) An action taken pursuant to this section does not alter or relinquish any copyright or other proprietary interest or entitlement of the State of California relating to any of the information made available pursuant to this section.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 148, Sec. 2. (SB 259) Effective January 1, 2024. Note: This section was amended on Nov. 8, 2016, by initiative Prop. 54.)

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text: Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 10248, the information that the Legislative Counsel makes available to the public pursuant to Section 10248 is within the public domain and the State of California retains no copyright or other proprietary interest in that information.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 441, Sec. 2. (AB 884) Effective September 22, 2016.)

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text:
(a) (1) The Legislative Counsel shall establish a unit within the Legislative Counsel Bureau to provide advice and investigation services to the Legislature related to workplace misconduct.

(2) The unit shall accept and investigate reports and complaints of workplace misconduct, as authorized by the Legislature.

(3) The Legislative Counsel shall employ a director of the unit, one or more investigators, and additional staff as appropriate. Notwithstanding Section 19889, but consistent with the merit principles of subdivision (b) of Section 1 of Article VII of the California Constitution, the Legislative Counsel shall be granted career executive assignments, at his or her request, to fill the positions of director and investigator.

(b) The Legislative Counsel shall retain by contract a rotating panel of experts to review investigations undertaken by the unit and make recommendations to the Legislature regarding matters under investigation.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 450, Sec. 2. (SB 867) Effective September 17, 2018.)

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text: There is, in the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the Commission on Uniform State Laws.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 46, Sec. 17. (SB 1038) Effective June 27, 2012.)

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(a) The commission consists of one Member of the Senate, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; one Member of the Assembly, appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly; six additional members, appointed by the Governor; the Legislative Counsel; any person, not otherwise a member of the commission, elected as a life member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws based upon service as a member of the commission; and any person, not otherwise a member of the commission, who served as a member of the commission, other than as an appointee of the Governor, for a period of at least five years.

(b) The Members of the Legislature appointed to the commission shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing power and shall participate in the activities of the commission to the extent that the participation is not incompatible with their positions as Members of the Legislature. For the purposes of this article, the Members of the Legislature shall constitute a joint interim investigating committee on the subject of this article, and shall have the powers and duties imposed upon those committees by the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly.

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Each appointed member of the commission shall be any of the following:

(a) A member in good standing of the State Bar of California.

(b) A person admitted to practice before the highest court of any other state of the United States.

(c) A judge of a court of record in this state.

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text: Each member appointed by the Governor to the commission shall hold office for a term of four years and until the appointment and qualification of a successor.

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