Budget Bill: public availability.
Summary
Under the existing California Constitution, a bill must be read by title 3 times in each house and a bill with amendments must be printed and distributed to the members of each house before it may be passed. This bill would provide that no vote may be taken in either house of the Legislature on the Budget Bill or other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill, as defined in the Constitution, until those bills have been made available to the public for 3 days on a publicly available Internet Web site.
Bill status
failed
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2012
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 4, 2012
Last action Apr 26, 2012
Floor votes
How they voted
No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
4
Key actions
1
Committee
2
Mar 29, 2012
Committee
Referred to Com. on RLS.
lower
Jan 5, 2012
Lower · Passed
From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mike Morrell
RRepublican
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