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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 1234
Author: McCarty (D)
Amended: 5/7/15 in Assembly
Vote: 27 - Urgency
SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORG. COMMITTEE: 13-0, 6/9/15
AYES: Hall, Berryhill, Block, Gaines, Galgiani, Glazer,
Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Lara, McGuire, Runner, Vidak
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 5/14/15 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT: State Archives: museum activities
SOURCE: California Secretary of State
DIGEST: This bill makes minor, mostly technical changes to
provisions governing the operating agreement between the
California Secretary of State (SOS) and the California Museum
for History, Women, and the Arts, which is located in the State
Archives Building Complex.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1)Requires the SOS to administer the State Archives Building
Complex for the use, education, and enjoyment of the public.
2)Authorizes the SOS to enter into an operating agreement with
the Golden State Museum Public Benefit Corporation to operate
a museum in the State Archives Building Complex.
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This bill:
1)Requires the SOS, in addition to administering the State
Archive Building Complex for the use, education and enjoyment
of the public, to also include uses to advance civic education
and civic engagement by all Californians.
2)Removes the SOS authorization to enter into an operating
agreement with the Golden State Museum Public Benefit
Corporation and instead authorizes the SOS to enter into an
operating agreement with the California Museum for History,
Women and the Arts and would require that the operating
agreement provide for the integration of State Archives
artifacts, collections and programs in museum exhibits and
programs.
3)Requires the operating agreement to provide for support by the
SOS, as specified.
4)Removes the SOS and the Director of Parks and Recreation from
their ex officio voting positions on the governing board of
the corporation and instead makes them and the State Archivist
honorary nonvoting members of the board.
5)Makes other technical changes.
Background
Purpose of the bill. According to the author, current law
authorizes the SOS to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) with the Golden State Museum Public Benefit Corporation
for operation of the California Museum in the Secretary of State
and State Archives Building Complex. The MOU expires on June
30, 2015. While in discussions for the new MOU, the new SOS has
identified specific goals of the museum and the State Archives
that he would like to add to the authorizing language, thus the
need for this bill.
Prior/Related Legislation
AB 2755 (Bocanegra, Chapter 914, Statutes of 2014) modified the
definition of directors for the purposes of the Nonprofit
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Corporation Law.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified 6/15/15)
California Secretary of State (Source)
The California Museum
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/15/15)
None received
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT: The California Secretary of State
states that this bill updates authority in current law for the
SOS to renew an agreement that expires on June 30, 2015, with
the California Museum. The SOS argues that the changes made by
this bill do not require new funding and are primarily technical
to enable the Museum and Archives to continue as a vital center
of civic engagement for use by all Californians.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 5/14/15
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang,
Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle,
Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina
Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez,
Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Lopez, Low,
Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Melendez, Mullin,
Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Perea,
Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago,
Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber,
Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Linder, Medina
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Prepared by:Felipe Lopez / G.O. / (916) 651-1530
6/16/15 14:20:34
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