TRACING CALIFORNIA LEGISLATION
Bills are drafts of laws which propose new laws or amend or repeal existing law.
INTERNET
- 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.
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- Bills in print form may be available in your library.
- 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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- Assembly and Senate Daily Journals.
Legislative debate is not published. These are the official records
of the proceedings of each house, and contain the action taken on all
measures considered by the Senate or Assembly, and the votes taken on
motions and resolutions.
(Indexed by the Senate/Assembly History).
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- California Journal.
- Newspaper articles via Academic Universe
LEXIS-NEXIS (Accessible
only through subscription.)
- Print indexes to major newspapers (e.g., New York Times, Los Angeles Times)
are available in your library.
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Committee hearings and reports are usually not published. To find what
exists, check the following catalogs:
- California State Publications.
- MELVYL, the UC Libraries' Catalog.
Search the MELVYL Catalog
or the Periodicals Titles databases.
Includes California State Library material.
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- Assembly and Senate Daily Journals. (Indexed by the Senate/Assembly History.)
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First, identify the
chapter number for a specific bill, using:
INTERNET
- Bill Information. 1993-
Search by keyword or author, or browse list of bills by session.
The chapter number is included in the Bill Status.
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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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or:
- Statutes of California and Digests of Measures.
An index is in the last volume for each year.
or, by name of the act: use the Popular Names tables in:
- Deering's California codes. General index.
- LARMAC Consolidated Index.
- Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Names: Federal and State.
Then, find the
text of the chapter:
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- Statutes and Amendments to the Code.
most recent issues as individual Chapters
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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.
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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, Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact,
Declaration of Rights, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation,
Constitution of the State of California, as last amended ...
- also in Deering's California Codes.
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Last revised: May 16, 2000
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.