BILL NUMBER: AB 2007	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 21, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Adams

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to add Section 86119 to the Government Code, relating to
the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2007, as amended, Adams. Political Reform Act of 1974: gifts.
   The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires lobbyists, lobbying
firms, lobbyist employers, and other persons who directly or
indirectly make payments to influence legislative or administrative
action of $5,000 or more in value in any calendar quarter to prepare
and file with the Secretary of State periodic reports disclosing
specified activity expenses incurred during specified reporting
periods, including gifts donated to elected state officials and
legislative officials.
   This bill would require the Fair Political Practices Commission to
post on its Internet Web site, on or before February 1 of each year,
information describing all gifts donated to Members of the
Legislature and designated employees of the Legislature in the
previous calendar year and reported to the Secretary of State by the
donors of those gifts.  The bill would require   the
Commission to post that information in a manner that permits the
public to access information regarding all reported gifts donated to
a specific recipient by entering that recipient's name into an
appropriate search feature. 
   The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides
that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes
upon a 2/3 vote of each house and compliance with specified
procedural requirements.
   This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.

   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 86119 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   86119.   (a)    On or before February 1 of each
year, the Commission shall post on its Internet Web site information
describing all gifts donated to Members of the Legislature and
designated employees of the Legislature in the previous calendar year
and reported by the donors of the gifts pursuant to this article.

   (b) The Commission shall post the information specified in
subdivision (a) on its Internet Web site in a manner that permits the
public to access information regarding all reported gifts donated to
a specific recipient by entering that recipient's name into an
appropriate search feature. 
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that this bill furthers
the purposes of the Political Reform Act of 1974 within the meaning
of subdivision (a) of Section 81012 of the Government Code.