BILL NUMBER: AB 181	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Huff
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members DeVore, Shirley Horton, Koretz, and
Maze)
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Alquist
  ) 

                        JANUARY 24, 2005

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 181, as amended, Huff  Legislative  hearings 
 floor sessions  : 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 
2005   2006  , which would provide that, 
commencing January 1, 2008, and  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 hearings  of the Senate and  the 
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  2005   2006 
.
  SEC. 2.  Section 9032 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   9032.   Upon   Commencing January 1, 2008,
 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 all
the floor sessions  and committee hearings of the Senate and
Assembly. In the case of a joint committee hearing, the Joint Rules
Committee shall provide the closed-captioned and live-captioned
broadcasts.   of the Senate and the Assembly.