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           SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES     2011 - 2012 Regular Session
           Senator Darrell Steinberg, Chair
           Staff Analysis
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           Hearing:  08/08/2012               Fiscal:  Yes

                                                  Urgency:  No
          

           BILL NO:    SCA 8
           AUTHOR:     Wyland
           AMENDED:    As introduced


            SUBJECT  :    Joint legislative committee on Job Creation and 
           Economic Development.

            SOURCE  :     Author

            DIGEST  :      This measure would require the Legislature to 
           convene a joint committee during each regular session to hear 
           testimony from business representatives regarding how to 
           improve job creation and economic development in the state.  
           It would require the committee to transmit a record of the 
           recommendations received to each Member of the Legislature for 
           the purpose of the Legislature's passage of legislation to 
           improve job creation and economic development.

            ANALYSIS  :  Article IV, Section 11 of the Constitution of 
           California states:  "The Legislature or either house may by 
           resolution provide for the selection of committees necessary 
           for the conduct of its business, including committees to 
           ascertain facts and make recommendations to the Legislature on 
           a subject within the scope of legislative control."

           The 2011-12 Legislature has, by resolution, created the 
           following Joint Committees:
              1.    Arts










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              2.    Fairs, Allocation and Classification
              3.    Fisheries and Aquaculture
              4.    Legislative Audit
              5.    Legislative Budget
              6.    Legislative Sunset Review
              7.    Rules
              8.    Emergency Management

           The 2009-10 Legislative sessions:

              1.    Emergency Management
              2.    Fairs Allocation and Classification
              3.    Fisheries and Aquaculture
              4.    Rules
              5.    Arts
              6.    Master Plan for Higher Education
              7.    Protection of Lake Tahoe
              8.    Legislative Audit
              9.    Legislative Budget

           The 2005-06 Legislative sessions:

              1.    Arts
              2.    Boards, Commissions and Consumer Protection
              3.    Master Plan to End Poverty in California
              4.    Emergency Services and Homeland Security
              5.    Fairs Allocation and Classification
              6.    Fisheries and Aquaculture
              7.    Rules
              8.    Legislative Audit
              9.    Legislative Budget

           In addition to Article IV, Section 11 of the Constitution of 
           California, Joint Rule 36 of the Temporary Joint Rules of the 
           California Legislature states:

           "In order to expedite the work of the Legislature, either 
           house, or both houses jointly, may by resolution or statute 
           provided for the appointment of committees to ascertain facts 
           and to make recommendations as to any subject within the scope 
           of legislative regulation or control."

           "The resolution providing for the appointment of a committee 









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           pursuant to this rule shall state the purpose of the committee 
           and the scope of the subject concerning which it is to act, 
           and may authorize it to act either during sessions of the 
           Legislature or, when authorization may lawfully be made, after 
           final adjournment."

           "Each committee or subcommittee of either house, in accordance 
           with the rules of that respective house, and each joint 
           committee or subcommittee thereof, may meet at any time during 
           the period in which it is authorized to act, either at the 
           State Capitol or at any other place in the State of 
           California, in public or executive session, and do any and all 
           things necessary or convenient to enable it to exercise the 
           powers and perform the duties herein granted to it or 
           accomplish the objects and purposes of the resolution creating 
           it?"
            
           COMMENTS  :  The existing provisions in the Constitution of 
           California and the Temporary Joint Rules of the California 
           Legislature grant the Legislature the authority to appoint 
           committees to ascertain facts and to make recommendations as 
           to any subject within the scope of legislative regulation or 
           control. This legislative body or any future legislative body 
           may by resolution create a Joint Committee on Job Creation and 
           Economic Development for a finite or infinite period of time. 

            Question to consider  : Should an additional section to Article 
           IV of the Constitution of California be added to require the 
           creation of a Joint Legislative Committee on Job Creation and 
           Economic Development? 

            
           SUPPORT  :  Unknown
            
           OPPOSE  :  Unknown



           SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES - Principal Consultant:  Sandy 
           Wood/651-4153












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