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Bills are drafts of laws which propose new laws, or amend or repeal existing law.
- Bill information. 1993-
- Text of bills, resolutions, and constitutional amendments, their status,
history, votes, analyses, and veto messages.
- Search by keyword or author, or browse list of bills by session.
- Older bills are available in the Statutes of California
if they were chaptered (became law).
To find bill numbers by subject
To find bill numbers by author, or
To get a brief description of the bill, its status and history
(including Governor's action)
updated by:
and:
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Assembly Final History.
Senate Final History.
Assembly Weekly History
Senate Weekly History
Assembly Daily History
Senate Daily History
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GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H5a (online 1881-)
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H5s (online 1881-)
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H48a (online current)
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H48s
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H47a
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H47s
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The Histories are arranged by bill number and indexed by author.
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- Assembly and Senate Daily Journals.
- Assembly Daily Journal: 1995-, and
Archives 1849- (Includes some Senate Journals.)
- Senate Daily Journal: October 2002-
- The Daily Journals are the official records of the proceedings of each house. They contain the action
taken on all measures considered by the Senate or Assembly, and the votes taken on motions and resolutions.
Legislative debate is not published.
- The Daily Journals are indexed by the Senate/Assembly History.
- Senate and Assembly Daily File
The Daily File contains the Order of Business, the tentative schedule for the entire legislative session,
bills which are scheduled to be heard on the floor and during committee hearings, and committee membership.
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- California Journal. Main Library JK8701 C33 Latest 2 years in Reference
An excellent resource for information on California government and politics. Online from Oct. 1989-
through Lexis-Nexis Academic [UCSB]. See below:
- News database on LexisNexis Academic [UCSB]
- Select Guided News Search to search the full text of today's or past newspapers.
- To search for California Journal articles, select Guided News Search, then U.S. News
in the news category box; then California News Sources in the news source box.
Type california journal in the "Step 5" search box (and fill out Steps 3 and 4 as desired).
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NewsBank - Access World News [UCSB]
Access to the full text of newspapers, including The Sacramento Bee from 1984-
- California newspapers via NewsLink
Links to websites of newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV stations.
- California newspaper links via NewsVoyager
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Committee hearings and reports are usually not published.
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- Bill Information 1993-
Text of bills, resolutions, and constitutional amendments, their status, history, votes, analyses, and veto messages.
Search by keyword or author, or browse list of bills by session.
- Assembly and Senate Daily Journals.
- Assembly Daily Journal: 1995-, and
Archives 1849- (Includes some Senate Journals.)
- Senate Daily Journal: October 2002-
- The Daily Journals are the official records of the proceedings of each house. They contain the action
taken on all measures considered by the Senate or Assembly, and the votes taken on motions and resolutions.
Legislative debate is not published.
- The Daily Journals are indexed by the Senate/Assembly History.
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 First, identify the
chapter number for a specific bill, using:
either:
- Bill Information. 1993-
Search by keyword or author, or browse list of bills by session.
The chapter number is included in the Bill Status, and the text as chaptered is in the Bill Text
section.
or:
updated by:
and:
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Assembly Final History.
Senate Final History.
Assembly Weekly History
Senate Weekly History
Assembly Daily History
Senate Daily History
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GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H5a (online 1881-)
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H5s (online 1881-)
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H48a (online current)
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H48s
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H47a
GIC, Ref. L500 A1 H47s
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The Histories are arranged by bill number and indexed by author.
or:
- Statutes of California and Digests of Measures.
- Reference KFC25 C2 (1855- ); 1850-1995
An index is in the last volume for each year. Identify chapter numbers by bill number or topic.
- Statutes 1993-.
Search by bill number and year of keywords to find the chapter number.
or, by name of the act: use the Popular Names tables in:
- Deering's California codes. General index. Reference JK8708 Z1A2
- LARMAC Consolidated Index. Reference JK8708 L3
- Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Names: Federal and State. Reference KF80 S5
Then, find the
text of the chapter in the Statutes of California:
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The laws of California as they currently stand, codified by subject and
arranged by title and section number.
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- Deering's California Codes. Reference JK8708 Z1
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The Constitution is arranged by broad subject areas known as Articles. Articles are organized by
heading and section numbers.
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- Constitution of the United States . . . Constitution of the State of California . . .
Latest edition at the Reference Desk JK8725 A5
- Deering's California Codes
Reference JK8708 Z1 C66
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Last revised: December 2007
This webpage is a joint project of:
Janet Martorana, California Government Collection Manager, UC Santa Barbara;
Carol Doyle, Head, Government Documents & Maps, California State University, Fresno;
Sherry DeDecker, U.S. Documents Collection Manager and Head, Government Information Center, UC Santa Barbara;
Cynthia Jahns, Head, Government Publications & Maps, UC Santa Cruz.
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