Bill Text: CA SB1275 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1275 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Public records.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1275 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1275-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 1275	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Moorlach

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 6250 of the Government Code, relating to
public records.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1275, as introduced, Moorlach. Public records.
   The California Public Records Act requires state and local
agencies to make their records available for public inspection,
unless an exemption from disclosure applies. The act declares that
access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business
is a fundamental and necessary right of every person in this state.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 6250 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   6250.  In enacting this chapter, the Legislature, mindful of the
right of individuals to privacy, finds and declares that access to
information  concerning   about  the
conduct of the people's business is a fundamental and necessary right
of every person in this state.