BILL NUMBER: AB 3100	CHAPTERED  09/18/04

	CHAPTER  577
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 18, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 18, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 25, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 29, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Elections, Redistricting and
Constitutional Amendments (Longville (Chair), Samuelian (Vice Chair),
Jerome Horton, Laird, Leno, Levine, and Strickland)

                        MARCH 18, 2004

   An act to amend Section 9042 of the Elections Code, relating to
state elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 3100, Committee on Elections, Redistricting and Constitutional
Amendments.  State elections:  measures to be submitted to the
voters.
   Existing law requires that if a measure to be submitted to the
voters by the Legislature was not adopted unanimously, one member of
each house who voted against the measure be appointed by the
presiding officers of the respective houses, at the same time as
appointments to draft an argument in favor of the measure, to write
an argument against the measure, as specified.
   This bill would clarify existing law by requiring that one Member
of the Senate who voted against the measure be appointed by the
President pro Tempore and one Member of the Assembly who voted
against the measure be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly to
write an argument against the measure.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 9042 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

   9042.  If a measure submitted to the voters by the Legislature was
not adopted unanimously, one Member of the Senate who voted against
it shall be appointed by the President pro Tempore of the Senate and
one Member of the Assembly who voted against it shall be appointed by
the Speaker of the Assembly, at the same time as appointments to
draft an argument in its favor are made, to write an argument against
the measure.  An argument shall not exceed 500 words.
   If those members appointed to write an argument against the
measure choose, each may write a separate argument opposing it, but
the combined length of the two arguments may not exceed 500 words.