BILL NUMBER: SB 1140	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Moorlach

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 9601 of the Government Code, relating to the
Legislature.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1140, as introduced, Moorlach. Legislature: operation of
statutes.
   Existing law specifies the dates by which enacted statutes go into
effect. Existing law also provides that a statute may be repealed at
any time, except when vested rights would be impaired.
   This bill would require the automatic repeal of a statute that
expressly or implicitly authorizes an executive agency to promulgate
regulations two years after the statute goes into effect, unless the
Legislature amends the statute to state its intent that the statute
not be repealed, or unless the statute was passed in response to an
emergency, as defined.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9601 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   9601.  (a) A statute that expressly authorizes an executive agency
to promulgate regulations, or that gives a new duty or power to an
executive agency, shall be repealed two years after it goes into
effect, unless the Legislature amends the statute before its repeal
to expressly state the Legislature's intent that the statute not be
repealed.
   (b) This section shall not apply to either of the following:
   (1) An agency that is constitutionally created.
   (2) A statute that is passed in response to an emergency, as
defined by Section 8558 of the Government Code.