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(a) (1) (A) A Any report required or requested by law to be submitted by a state or local agency to the Members of either house of the Legislature generally, shall instead be submitted as a printed copy electronically to the Secretary of the Senate, as an electronic copy to the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and as an electronic or printed copy to the Legislative Counsel. Each report shall include a summary of its contents, not to exceed one page in length. If the report is A report required or requested by law to be 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 or local agency to a committee of either or both 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. Legislature shall be submitted electronically to the committee; the Secretary of the Senate or the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, or both the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, as applicable; and the Legislative Counsel. (B) (2) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), reports of the State Bar of California may be submitted electronically to the Secretary of the Senate. Each report described in paragraph (1) shall include a summary of its contents, not to exceed one page in length. 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) (3) 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) No 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) (1) A state agency report and summary subject to this section shall include an Internet Web site 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 on the agency’s Internet Web site. internet website.
(2) For any state agency report subject to this section involving the collection or analysis of data, the datasets used to generate the report shall be posted on the statewide open data portal established and maintained pursuant to Chapter 7.7 (commencing with Section 11795) of Part 1 of Division 3 at the time the report is posted on the agency’s internet website, but only to the extent these datasets are otherwise subject to public disclosure under state and federal law. All datasets shall be posted in a machine-readable format.
(e) For purposes of this section, “report” includes any study or audit. the following definitions apply:
(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) “Data” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 11795.
(3) “Dataset” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 11795.
(4) “Machine-readable format” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 11795.
(5) “Report” includes any study or audit.
(6) “Statewide open data portal” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 11795.