California Government Code

§ 9080

GOV § 9080 Effective Jan 1, 1997Div. 2 · Title 2 · Part 1 · Ch. 1.5 · Art. 3.5

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares that legislative records relating to bills, resolutions, or proposed constitutional amendments before the Legislature provide evidence of legislative intent that may be important in the subsequent interpretation of laws enacted in the Legislature. The Rules Committee of each house of the Legislature and the Joint Rules Committee shall inform each committee of the Senate and Assembly, and each joint committee of the Legislature, of their responsibility to preserve legislative records and make them available to the public.

(b)Each committee of the Senate or Assembly, and each joint committee of the Legislature, having custody of legislative records relating to a bill, resolution, or proposed constitutional amendment assigned to that committee, shall maintain the legislative records described in subdivision (d) in an official committee file. The committee shall preserve those records in its custody, or, in the alternative, may arrange with the State Archives to lodge some or all of the records there under the condition that the records be preserved.

(c)“Committee” for purposes of this section includes any entity of the Senate or Assembly responsible for preparing analyses of bills, resolutions, or proposed constitutional amendments that are to be put to a vote by a quorum of the members of the Senate or Assembly.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 928, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997.