BILL NUMBER: SB 887	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hollingsworth

                        JANUARY 20, 2010

   An act to amend Section 8504 of the Government Code, relating to
state government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 887, as introduced, Hollingsworth. Milton Marks Commission:
membership: Members of the Legislature.
   Existing law creates the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission
on California State Government Organization and Economy, which has a
prescribed membership that includes 4 members of the Legislature, as
prescribed. Existing law specifies that the Members of the
Legislature serving as members of the commission be considered a
joint committee of the 2 houses of the Legislature constituted and
acting as an investigating committee.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8504 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   8504.  For  the  purposes of this chapter  ,
 the Members of the Legislature serving as members of the
commission shall be considered a joint committee of the two houses of
the Legislature constituted and acting as an investigating
committee, and  as such  shall have the powers and
duties imposed on  such   these joint 
committees by the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly.