Bill Text: CA AB1437 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Budget Bill: public availability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-26 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. [AB1437 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1437-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1437	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Morrell

                        JANUARY 4, 2012

   An act to add Section 9518 to the Government Code, relating to the
state budget.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1437, as introduced, Morrell. Budget Bill: public availability.

   Under the existing California Constitution, a bill must be read by
title 3 times in each house and a bill with amendments must be
printed and distributed to the members of each house before it may be
passed.
   This bill would provide that no vote may be taken in either house
of the Legislature on the Budget Bill or other bills providing for
appropriations related to the Budget Bill, as defined in the
Constitution, until those bills have been made available to the
public for 3 days on a publicly available Internet Web site.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 9518 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   9518.  No vote shall be taken in either house of the Legislature
on the Budget Bill or other bills providing for appropriations
related to the Budget Bill, as defined in Section 12 of Article IV of
the California Constitution, until those bills have been made
available to the public for three days on a publicly available
Internet Web site.