BILL NUMBER: AB 70	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 9, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Morrell
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Allen,   Conway,   Beth Gaines,  
Gorell,   Harkey,   Jones,   Logue, 
 Nestande,   and Wilk   ) 

                        JANUARY 10, 2013

   An act to add Section 9518 to the Government Code, relating to the
State Budget.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 70, as amended, Morrell. Budget Bill: public availability.
   The California Constitution requires that a bill be read by title
3 times in each house or a bill with amendments be printed and
distributed to the  members   Members  of
each house before it may be passed.
   This bill would provide that  no   a 
vote  may   shall not  be taken in either
house of the Legislature on the Budget Bill or  any  other
 bills   bill  providing for appropriations
related to the Budget Bill, as defined in the Constitution, until
 those bills have  the bill has  been made
available to the public for 3 days on a publicly available Internet
Web site.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9518 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   9518.   No   A  vote shall  not
 be taken in either house of the Legislature on the Budget Bill
or  other bills   any other bill  providing
for appropriations related to the Budget Bill, as defined in Section
12 of Article IV of the California Constitution, until 
those bills have   the bill has  been made
available to the public for three days on a publicly available
Internet Web site.