Bill Text: CA AB998 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Budget Bill: public availability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB998 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB998-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 998	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Morrell

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 998, 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. Existing law requires the Legislative Counsel, with the
advice of the rules committees of both houses, to make the text of
each bill in all its forms, as well as other enumerated publications,
available to the public in electronic form.
   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 such bills have been made available to the public
for 3 days in electronic form.
   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 such bills have been made
available to the public for three days in electronic form pursuant to
Section 10248.