Bill Text: CA SCA30 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Legislature: bill notice requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-08-20 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. [SCA30 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SCA30-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCA 30	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff
   (Coauthors: Senators Cox, Denham, Runner, and Wyland)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members  DeVore,  Gilmore, Hagman,
Jeffries, and Nestande)

                        MARCH 3, 2010

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 8
of Article IV thereof, relating to the Legislature.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCA 30, as amended, Huff. Legislature: bill notice requirements.
    The California Constitution prohibits a bill from being passed by
the Legislature until the bill with amendments has been printed and
distributed to the Members. 
   This measure would prohibit a hearing or vote on a bill by a
committee of a house of the Legislature unless, at least 72 hours in
advance, it has been printed and distributed to the members of that
committee and made available to the public on the Internet. The
measure would also define "printed and distributed" to include
electronic publication and distribution. 
   This measure would  likewise  prohibit passage of
a bill by a house of the Legislature unless, at least  72
  48  hours in advance, the bill is made available
to the public on the Internet  , except that the house may
dispense with this requirement by rollcall vote,   3/4 
 of the membership concurring  .
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.



   Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2009-10 Regular Session
commencing on the first day of December 2008, two-thirds of the
membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of
the State of California that the Constitution of the State be
amended as follows:
    That Section 8 of Article IV thereof is amended to read:
      SEC. 8.  (a)  (1)    At
regular sessions no bill other than the budget bill may be heard or
acted on by committee or either house until the 31st day after the
bill is introduced unless the house dispenses with this requirement
by rollcall vote entered in the journal, three-fourths of the
membership concurring. 
   (2) No bill shall be heard or voted on by a committee unless, at
least 72 hours in advance, the bill has been printed and distributed
to the members and made available to the public on the Internet. For
purposes of this section, "printed and distributed" includes
electronic publication and distribution. 
   (b) The Legislature may make no law except by statute and may
enact no statute except by bill. No bill may be passed unless it is
read by title on three days in each house, except that the house may
dispense with this requirement by rollcall vote entered in the
journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring. No bill may be
passed by a house until, at least  72   48 
hours in advance, the bill with amendments has been printed and
distributed to the members of that house and made available to the
public on the Internet  , unless the house dispenses with this
requirement by rollcall vote entered in the journal, three-fourths of
the membership concurring  . No bill may be passed unless, by
rollcall vote entered in the journal, a majority of the membership of
each house concurs.
   (c) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), 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.
   (2) A statute, other than a statute establishing or changing
boundaries of any legislative, congressional, or other election
district, enacted by a bill passed by the Legislature on or before
the date the Legislature adjourns for a joint recess to reconvene in
the second calendar year of the biennium of the legislative session,
and in the possession of the Governor after that date, shall go into
effect on January 1 next following the enactment date of the statute
unless, before January 1, a copy of a referendum petition affecting
the statute is submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to
subdivision (d) of Section 10 of Article II, in which event the
statute shall go into effect on the 91st day after the enactment date
unless the petition has been presented to the Secretary of State
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 9 of Article II.
   (3) 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.
   (d) Urgency statutes are those necessary for immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety. A statement of
facts constituting the necessity shall be set forth in one section of
the bill. In each house the section and the bill shall be passed
separately, each by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two-thirds
of the membership concurring. An urgency statute may not create or
abolish any office or change the salary, term, or duties of any
office, or grant any franchise or special privilege, or create any
vested right or interest.