BILL NUMBER: SCA 20	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Maldonado

                        APRIL 16, 2009

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 8
of Article IV thereof, relating to the Legislature.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCA 20, as introduced, Maldonado. Legislature: public notice of
bills.
   Existing law provides that no bill other than the Budget Bill may
be acted on until the 31st day after the bill is introduced unless
this requirement may be dispensed with by a 2/3 rollcall vote of the
house.
   This measure would require a Budget Bill or a bill implementing a
Budget Bill, as defined, to be displayed on the Internet in the form
it is to be voted on for at least 48 hours before it may be voted on
by either house of the Legislature, except that this requirement
could be waived by a 3/4 rollcall vote of the house.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.



   Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2009-10 Regular
Session, commencing on the first day of December 2008, two-thirds of
the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the
people of the State of California that the Constitution of the State
be amended as follows:
    That Section 8 of Article IV thereof is amended to read:
      SEC. 8.  (a) At regular sessions no bill other than the budget
bill may be heard or acted on by committee or either house until the
31st day after the bill is introduced unless the house dispenses with
this requirement by rollcall vote entered in the journal, 
three fourths   three-fourths  of the membership
concurring.
   (b)  (1)    The Legislature may make no law
except by statute and may enact no statute except by bill. No bill
may be passed unless it is read by title on  3  
three  days in each house except that the house may dispense
with this requirement by rollcall vote entered in the journal,
 two thirds   two-thirds  of the membership
concurring. No bill may be passed until the bill with amendments has
been printed and distributed to the members. No bill may be passed
unless, by rollcall vote entered in the journal, a majority of the
membership of each house concurs. 
   (2) Neither house of the Legislature shall vote on a budget bill
or a budget implementation bill until the bill is displayed, in the
form it is to be voted upon, on the Internet for at least 48 hours
prior to the vote, unless the house dispenses with this requirement
by a rollcall vote entered in the journal, three-fourths of the
membership concurring.  
   (3) For purposes of this section, a "budget bill" is a bill that
makes appropriations for the support of the government of the State
for an entire fiscal year, and a "budget implementation bill" is a
bill enacted by a statute that is identified in the budget bill as
containing only changes in law necessary to implement the budget
bill. 
   (c) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3)  of
this subdivision  , a statute enacted at a regular session
shall go into effect on January 1 next following a 90-day period from
the date of enactment of the statute and a statute enacted at a
special session shall go into effect on the 91st day after
adjournment of the special session at which the bill was passed.
   (2) A statute, other than a statute establishing or changing
boundaries of any legislative, congressional, or other election
district, enacted by a bill passed by the Legislature on or before
the date the Legislature adjourns for a joint recess to reconvene in
the second calendar year of the biennium of the legislative session,
and in the possession of the Governor after that date, shall go into
effect on January 1 next following the enactment date of the statute
unless, before January 1, a copy of a referendum petition affecting
the statute is submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to
subdivision (d) of Section 10 of Article II, in which event the
statute shall go into effect on the 91st day after the enactment date
unless the petition has been presented to the Secretary of State
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 9 of Article II.
   (3) Statutes calling elections, statutes providing for tax levies
or appropriations for the usual current expenses of the State, and
urgency statutes shall go into effect immediately upon their
enactment.
   (d) Urgency statutes are those necessary for immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety. A statement of
facts constituting the necessity shall be set forth in one section of
the bill. In each house the section and the bill shall be passed
separately, each by rollcall vote entered in the journal, 
two thirds   two-thirds  of the membership
concurring. An urgency statute may not create or abolish any office
or change the salary, term, or duties of any office, or grant any
franchise or special privilege, or create any vested right or
interest.