BILL NUMBER: AB 884	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 25, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 30, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 30, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 9, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 1, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gordon
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Wolk)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add Section 10248.5 to, and to repeal Section 9026.5 of,
the Government Code, relating to the Legislature, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 884, Gordon. Legislature: legislative information: public use.
   Existing law prohibits a television signal generated by the
Assembly from being used for any political or commercial purpose,
including, but not limited to, any campaign for elective public
office or any campaign supporting or opposing a ballot proposition
submitted to the electors. Existing law provides that a person or
organization who violates this prohibition is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
   This bill would repeal these provisions.
   Existing law requires the Legislative Counsel, with the advice of
the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, to
make certain information available to the public in electronic form,
including, among other things, the text of each bill introduced in
each current legislative session, including each amended, enrolled,
and chaptered form of each bill. Existing law provides that no
actions taken pursuant to these requirements alter or relinquish any
copyright or other proprietary interest or entitlement of the State
of California in the information made available to the public.
   This bill would place the information that the Legislative Counsel
makes available to the public pursuant to these provisions within
the public domain and would provide that the State of California
retains no copyright or other proprietary interest in that
information.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9026.5 of the Government Code is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 10248.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   10248.5.  Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 10248, the
information that the Legislative Counsel makes available to the
public pursuant to Section 10248 is within the public domain and the
State of California retains no copyright or other proprietary
interest in that information.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   Because of the importance of ensuring, without unnecessary and
undue delay, public access to and use of Assembly-generated
television signals and legislative information that the Legislative
Counsel makes available in electronic form, it is necessary that this
bill take effect immediately.