BILL NUMBER: AB 772	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Robert Pacheco
    (Coauthors: Assembly Members Aroner, Bates, Briggs, Chan,
Chavez, Cogdill, Diaz, Dickerson, Leach, Pescetti, Runner, and
Strom-Martin) 
    (Coauthor:  Senator Karnette) 

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2001

   An act to add Section 9032 to the Government Code, relating to the
Legislature.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 772, as amended, Robert Pacheco.  Legislative hearings:
closed- and live-captioning.
   Existing law, with certain exceptions, requires that all meetings
of the Senate and the Assembly, or of a committee of the Senate or
Assembly, be open and public, and requires that all persons be
permitted to attend those meetings.
   This bill would enact the Legislative Captioning Act of 2001,
which would provide that, upon appropriation of funds for purposes of
the bill in the annual Budget Act, the rules committee of the
respective house shall provide closed-captioned and live-captioned
broadcasts of the floor sessions and committee  meetings
  hearings  of the Senate and Assembly.  Under the
bill, the Joint Rules Committee would provide closed-captioned and
live-captioned broadcasts of a joint committee hearing.
   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.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Legislative Captioning Act of 2001.
  SEC. 2.  Section 9032 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   9032.  Upon appropriation of funds in the annual Budget Act for
purposes of this section, the rules committee of the respective house
shall provide closed-captioned and live-captioned broadcasts of the
floor sessions and committee  meetings  
hearings  of the Senate and Assembly.  In the case of a joint
committee  meeting   hearing  , the Joint
Rules Committee shall provide the closed-captioned and live-captioned
broadcasts.