State Archives: museum activities.

Existing law requires the Secretary of State to administer the State Archives Building Complex for the use, education, and enjoyment of the public. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of State to enter into an operating agreement with the Golden State Museum Public Benefit Corporation to operate a museum in the State Archives Building Complex. This bill would provide that the purposes of that administration of the State Archives Building Complex also include uses to advance civic education and civic engagement by all Californians. The bill would remove authorization for the corporation to enter into that operating agreement and to support the operations and programs of the State Archives. The bill would instead authorize the Secretary of State to enter into that operating agreement with the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts and would require that the operating agreement provide for integration of State Archives artifacts, collections, and programs in museum exhibits and programs. The bill would require the operating agreement to provide for support by the Secretary of State. The bill would remove the Secretary of State and the Director of Parks and Recreation from their ex officio voting positions on the governing board of the corporation and instead make them and the State Archivist honorary nonvoting members of the board. The bill would also make technical changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.