BILL NUMBER: AB 1414	CHAPTERED  08/24/99

	CHAPTER   225
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   AUGUST 24, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   AUGUST 23, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 16, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 15, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 21, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 19, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Papan

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to add Section 83111.5 to the Government Code, relating to
the Political Reform Act of 1974, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1414, Papan.  Fair Political Practices Commission:
administration.
   Under the existing Political Reform Act of 1974, the Fair
Political Practices Commission has primary responsibility for the
impartial, effective administration and implementation of the act.
   This bill would prohibit the commission from taking any action to
implement the act that would abridge freedom of speech or deny due
process of law or the equal protection of the laws.
   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 bill would declare that it would go into effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 83111.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   83111.5.  The commission shall take no action to implement this
title that would abridge constitutional guarantees of freedom of
speech, that would deny any person of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, or that would deny any person the equal
protection of the laws.
  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.
  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:
   In order to ensure protection of rights under the First and
Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution in
proceedings before the Fair Political Practices Commission without
delay, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.