BILL NUMBER: SB 1024	CHAPTERED  07/28/99

	CHAPTER   208
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 28, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 27, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JULY 15, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   MAY 24, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 15, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Johnson

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to add Section 84602.5 to the Government Code, relating to
the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1024, Johnson.  Political Reform Act of 1974:  online
disclosure.
   Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require
specified candidates for public office and committees supporting or
opposing candidates or ballot measures periodically to file reports
with the Secretary of State and certain local officials setting forth
information concerning contributions they received and expenditures
they made during the specified reporting period.  Existing provisions
of the act also require lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist
employers periodically to file specified reports and statements with
the Secretary of State.  Existing law also requires the Secretary of
State to develop and implement a process whereby reports and
statements, that are required under the act to be filed with the
Secretary of State, including those by controlled committees of
elected state officers that receive contributions, and any other
committees, lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers, could
be filed electronically and viewed by the public at no cost on an
online disclosure system by way of the largest nonproprietary,
cooperative public computer network.
   This bill would require the Secretary of State to disclose online
an index of the identification numbers of every person, entity, or
committee obligated to make a disclosure pursuant to the provisions
described above.  This index would be required to be updated monthly
except for the 6-week period preceding any statewide regular or
special election, during which period the index would be required to
be updated weekly.
   The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides
that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes
with a 2/3 vote of each house and compliance with specified
procedural requirements.
   This bill, which would declare that it furthers the purposes of
the act, would therefore require a 2/3 vote.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 84602.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   84602.5.  The Secretary of State shall disclose online pursuant to
this chapter an index of the identification numbers, as assigned
pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 84101, of every person,
entity, or committee that is obligated to make a disclosure pursuant
to Chapter 4.  This index shall be updated monthly except for the
six-week period preceding any statewide regular or special election,
during which period the index shall be updated weekly.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that the provisions of
this act further the purpose of the Political Reform Act of 1974
within the meaning of subdivision (a) of Section 81012 of the
Government Code.