BILL NUMBER: ACR 16	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Silva

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2009

   Relative to the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the
2009-10 Regular Session.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 16, as introduced, Silva. Joint Rules: fiscal committee.
   This measure would provide that whenever a bill that would result
in net costs for a program specified in the bill is referred or
rereferred to the fiscal committee of either house, the bill shall
not be heard or acted upon by the committee or either house until the
bill either provides for an appropriation or other funding source in
an amount that meets or exceeds the net costs.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California,the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly
for the 2009-10 Regular Session are amended by adding Joint Rule 10.4
to read, as follows:
      Bills Referred to Fiscal Committees

   10.4. Whenever a bill that would result in net costs for a program
specified in the bill is referred or rereferred to a fiscal
committee of either house, the bill shall not be heard or acted upon
by the committee or either house until the bill either provides for
an appropriation or other funding source, or a combination thereof,
in an amount that meets or exceeds the net costs.