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ACA-25 Legislation: adoption.(2001-2002)

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2001–2002 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Constitutional Amendment
No. 25

Introduced  by  Assembly Member Bogh, Rod Pacheco
 (Coauthor(s): Assembly Member Aanestad, Cogdill, Hollingsworth, Strickland, Zettel)

July 22, 2002

A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article IV thereof, relating to legislative procedure.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


ACA 25, as introduced, Bogh. Legislation: adoption.
The California Constitution provides that the Legislature may make no law except by statute and may enact no statute except by bill. It provides that no bill may be passed unless it is read by title on 3 days in each house except that a house may suspend this requirement by a 2/3 rollcall vote of the members.
This measure would provide that no bill amended on the floor of either house may be passed by that house unless placed on the 3rd reading file for 3 calendar days in its final form.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  
WHEREAS, The Legislature finds that in order to allow the public sufficient time to review amendments to bills that are proposed on the floor of a house of the Legislature, and to express their views on those amendments to their respective elected representatives and thereby play an important part in the legislative process, it is necessary to revise the procedure by which legislation is considered for passage upon the floor of each house; now therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2001–02 Regular Session commencing on the fourth day of December 2000, 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 by amending subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article IV thereof, to read:
(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 3 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 until the bill with amendments has been printed and distributed to the members. No bill amended on the floor of either house may be passed by that house unless placed on the third reading file for three calendar days in its final form. No bill may be passed unless, by rollcall vote entered in the journal, a majority of the membership of each house concurs.
And be it further resolved, That this measure shall be known and may be cited as the “People’s Right to Know Act.”