Article 185 of alt.etext: Newsgroups: alt.etext Path: wiretap.Spies.COM!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news2.uunet.ca!apple.com!goofy.apple.com!mumbo.apple.com!gallant.apple.com!kiddyr From: kiddyr@gallant.apple.com (Ray Kiddy) Subject: CA AB 1624 latest full text Message-ID: <1993Aug27.173530.19387@gallant.apple.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 17:35:30 GMT Organization: Apple Computer Inc. Lines: 134 AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 25, 1993 AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 16, 1993 AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 17, 1993 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 18, 1993 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE--1993-94 REGULAR SESSION ASSEMBLY BILL No. 1624 Introduced by Assembly Member Bowen (Principal coauthor: Senator Torres) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Areias, Bornstein, Goldsmith, Isenberg, Johnson, Karnette, Katz Mountjoy, Nolan, Polanco, Speier, and Vasconcellos) (Coauthors: Senators Dills, Hayden, Killea, Morgan, and Rosenthal) March 4, 1993 An act to add Section 10248 to the Government Code, relating to the Legislature; LEGISLATIVE COUNSELUS DIGEST AB 1624, as amended, Bowen. Legislature: legislative information: access by computer network. Under existing law, all meetings of a house of the Legislature or a committee thereof are required to be open and public, unless specifically exempted, and any meeting that is required to be open and public, including specified closed sessions, may be held only after full and timely notice to the public as provided by the Joint Rules of the Assembly and Senate. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations that the public should be informed to the fullest extent possible as to the time, place, and agenda for each meeting. This bill would require the Legislative Counsel, with the advice of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, to make available to the public, by means of access by way of the largest nonproprietary, nonprofit cooperative public computer network, specified information concerning bills, the proceedings of the houses and committees of the Legislature, statutory enactments, and the California Constitution. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: 1 SECTION 1. Section 10248 is added to the 2 Government Code, to read: 3 10248. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that 4 the public should be informed to the fullest extent 5 possible as to the time, place, and agenda for each 6 meeting of the houses and committees of the Legislature. 7 The Legislature further finds and declares that it is 8 desirable to make timely information regarding these 9 proceedings available to each member of the public, 10 irrespective of where he or she resides, for the least cost 11 possible. 12 (b) The Legislative Counsel shall, with the advice of 13 the Assembly Committee on 14 Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, make all of the 15 following information available to the public in electronic 16 form: 17 (1) The most recent Assembly Daily File and most 18 recent Daily Senate File. 19 (2) The text of each bill introduced in each current 20 legislative session, including all amended forms of the 21 bill. 22 (3) The bill history of each bill introduced and 23 amended in each current legislative session. 24 (4) The bill status of each bill introduced and 25 amended in each current legislative session. 26 (5) All bill analyses prepared in connection with each 1 bill in each current legislative session. 2 (6) All vote information concerning each bill in each 3 current legislative session. 4 (7) 5 Any veto messages concerning a bill in each current 6 legislative session. 7 (8) The California Codes. 8 (9) The California Constitution. 9 (10) All uncodified statutes enacted on or after 10 January 1, 1993. 11 (11) Documentation that is available to the public and 12 maintained in computerized form by the Legislative 13 Counsel which describes the computerized digital 14 formats of the files containing the information specified 15 in this subdivision. 16 (c) The Legislative Counsel shall automatically 17 transmit copies of files of the information specified in 18 specified in subdivision (b) by way of the largest 19 nonproprietary, nonprofit cooperative public computer 20 network upon receiving any computerized request for 21 the files. 33 The 34 information in the files shall be formatted in the same 35 manner as that maintained in the legislative information 36 system that is operated and maintained by the Legislative 37 Counsel. The files shall be made available immediately 38 after the information system is updated with the files. In 39 the event that a technical malfunction prevents these 40 files from being made available within four hours after 1 the infomration system is updated with them, the 2 Legislative Counsel shall report that fact to the Assembly 3 Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules 4 within one business day. 5 (d) Any file that is available pursuant to subdivision 6 (c) shall remain available to the public upon request by 7 electronic digital data transmission until it is updated. 8 When a file is updated, a copy of the file without the 9 updated information shall remain available to the public 10 by electronic data digital transmission for at least 90 days 11 after the update. 12 (e) The Legislative Counsel may not control which or 13 how many files are available to a person who requests the 14 files nor monitor or keep any records about those persons 15 who request files, except for the purpose of assuring the 16 quality of computer operations. No fee or other charge 17 shall be imposed as a condition 20 of accessing the information that is accessible by way of 21 the computer network specified in subdivision (c). 22 (f) The electronic public access provided by 23 subdivision (c) shall be in addition to other electronic 24 or print distribution of the information. 25 (g) No action taken pursuant to this section shall be 26 deemed to alter or relinquish any copyright or other 27 proprietary interest or entitlement of the State of 28 California relating to any of the information made 29 available pursuant to this section.