AB 2277, as introduced, Mansoor. Legislative Counsel: legislative session information.
Existing law requires the Legislative Counsel to make specified information pertaining to measures considered by the Legislature publicly available in electronic format, including all vote information concerning each bill in each current legislative session.
This bill would require that the vote information identify the party preference designation of each Member of the Legislature associated with a vote. The bill would also require the Legislative Counsel to make available a list, for each Member, of the votes cast by the Member on every bill introduced in the current legislative session. The bill would require that this information be organized and made available for download in a specified format that would allow the public to search and aggregate the data.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 10248 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
(a) The Legislative Counsel shall, with the advice of
2the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on
3Rules, make all of the following information available to the public
4in electronic form:
5(1) The legislative calendar, the schedule of legislative
6committee hearings, a list of matters pending on the floors of both
7houses of the Legislature, and a list of the committees of the
8Legislature and their members.
9(2) The text of each bill introduced in each current legislative
10session, including each amended, enrolled, and chaptered form of
11each bill.
12(3) The bill history of each bill
introduced and amended in each
13current legislative session.
14(4) The bill status of each bill introduced and amended in each
15current legislative session.
16(5) All bill analyses prepared by legislative committees in
17connection with each bill in each current legislative session.
18(6) All vote information concerning each bill in each current
19legislative sessionbegin insert, including the party preference designation of
20each Member of the Legislature associated with a voteend insert.
21(7) Any veto message concerning a bill in each current
22legislative session.
23(8) The California Codes.
24(9) The California Constitution.
25(10) All statutes enacted on or after January 1, 1993.
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26(11) For each Member of both houses of the Legislature, a list
27of the votes cast by the Member, including votes cast during
28committee hearings, on every bill introduced in the current
29legislative session, including any current extraordinary session.
30For purposes of subdivision (b), the information identified pursuant
31to this paragraph shall, to the extent practicable, be organized
32and made available for public download in a format, such as a
33spreadsheet, that allows the public to search and aggregate the
34data.
35(b) The information identified in subdivision (a)
shall be made
36available to the public by means of access by way of the largest
37nonproprietary, nonprofit cooperative public computer network.
38The information shall be made available in one or more formats
39and by one or more means in order to provide the greatest feasible
40access to the general public in this state. Any person who accesses
P3 1the information may access all or any part of the information. The
2information may also be made available by any other means of
3access that would facilitate public access to the information. The
4information that is maintained in the legislative information system
5that is operated and maintained by the Legislative Counsel shall
6be made available in the shortest feasible time after the information
7is available in the information system. The information that is not
8maintained in the information system shall be made available in
9the shortest feasible time after it is available to the Legislative
10Counsel.
11(c) Any
documentation that describes the electronic digital
12formats of the information identified in subdivision (a) and is
13available to the public shall be made available by means of access
14by way of the computer network specified in subdivision (b).
15(d) Personal information concerning a person who accesses the
16information may be maintained only for the purpose of providing
17service to the person.
18(e) No fee or other charge may be imposed by the Legislative
19Counsel as a condition of accessing the information that is
20accessible by way of the computer network specified in subdivision
21(b).
22(f) The electronic public access provided by way of the computer
23network specified in subdivision (b) shall be in addition to other
24electronic or print distribution of the information.
25(g) No action taken pursuant to this section shall be deemed to
26alter or relinquish any copyright or other proprietary interest or
27entitlement of the State of California relating to any of the
28information made available pursuant to this section.
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