BILL NUMBER: AB 1778	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2010

   An act to add Chapter 1.7 (commencing with Section 6096) to
Division 7 of the Government Code, relating to state promotions.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1778, as introduced, Lieu. State agency promotions:
commercials.
   Existing law establishes the California Tourism Marketing Act as a
means of funding generic promotion of this state as a tourism
destination.
   This bill would require any department, commission, office,
agency, or other administrative entity of the state that produces, or
contracts for the production of, a promotional commercial for the
state or a product of the state, and finances that commercial in
whole or in part with public funds, to film that commercial in this
state.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 1.7 (commencing with Section 6096) is added to
Division 7 of the Government Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 1.7.  OFFICIAL PROMOTIONAL COMMERCIALS


   6096.  Any department, commission, office, agency, or other
administrative entity of the state that produces, or contracts for
the production of, a promotional commercial for the state or a
product of the state, and finances that commercial in whole or in
part with public funds, shall require that commercial to be filmed in
this state.