Sections
28 entriesSection 1Establishes that California’s legislative power belongs to a Legislature composed of the Senate and Assembly. Reserves to the people the separate powers…Section 1.5Establishes findings that unlimited legislative tenure, self-created retirement benefits, and state-funded staff give incumbents unfair advantages, discourage challengers, and foster career politicians.…Section 2Sets the Senate at 40 members serving staggered four-year terms and the Assembly at 80 members serving two-year terms, beginning the first…Section 3Requires regular legislative sessions to convene at noon on the first Monday of December in even-numbered years and adjourn automatically at midnight…Section 4Prohibits legislators from knowingly receiving earned income from lobbyists, lobbying firms, or recent legislative contractors, excluding a spouse’s community-property income, and imposes…Section 4.5Requires legislators serving on or after November 1, 1990, to participate in federal Social Security, with the State paying only the employer…Section 5Allows each legislative house, by a two-thirds recorded vote, to expel or suspend a member; a suspension must state its basis and…Section 6Requires California to be divided into 40 Senatorial districts and 80 Assembly districts for choosing legislators. Each Senatorial district elects one Senator,…Section 7Requires each house to choose officers, adopt rules, maintain a majority quorum, publish a journal, and conduct proceedings publicly. Requires online audiovisual…Section 7.5Limits legislative compensation, staffing, operating, and equipment expenditures in the first fiscal year after adoption to the lesser of $950,000 per member…Section 8Requires bills generally to wait 31 days after introduction, receive three title readings, and remain publicly available in final form for 72…Section 8.5Prohibits a legislatively submitted initiative-statute amendment, bond act, or constitutional amendment from making its application to a political subdivision depend on local…Section 9Requires every statute to contain one subject expressed in its title and voids only an included subject not expressed there. Prohibits amending…Section 10Requires presentment of passed bills to the Governor, permits vetoes and appropriation-item reductions, and allows two-thirds overrides. Sets 30-day, September 30, and…Section 11Allows the Legislature or either house, by resolution, to create and select committees needed to conduct legislative business. Those committees may include…Section 12Requires the Governor to submit an itemized budget within the first 10 days of each year and the Legislature to pass the…Section 12.5Requires the Director of Finance, within 10 days after the Governor’s budget submission, required proposed adjustments, and budget enactment, or as soon…Section 13Prohibits a legislator, during the term for which elected, from holding any office or employment under the State other than an elective…Section 14Exempts a legislator from civil process throughout a legislative session and during the five days immediately before and after that session. The…Section 15Defines as a felony seeking to influence a legislator’s vote or action in a legislative capacity by bribery, promised reward, intimidation, or…Section 16Requires all laws of a general nature to operate uniformly throughout their application. Prohibits a local or special statute whenever a general…Section 17Prohibits the Legislature from granting, or authorizing a public body to grant, extra compensation or allowances to public officers, employees, or contractors…Section 18Establishes Assembly sole impeachment power and Senate trials, requiring recorded rollcall concurrence of two-thirds of all Senators for conviction. Applies to statewide…Section 19Prohibits legislative authorization of lotteries and Nevada- or New Jersey-type casinos, while allowing regulated horse-race wagering, charitable bingo, the State Lottery, and…Section 20Allows the Legislature to create fish and game districts, protect fish and game, and delegate protection and propagation powers to a five-member…Section 21Allows the Legislature, to address a war- or enemy-caused California disaster, to fill legislative offices when at least one-fifth of either house…Section 22Requires the Senate President pro Tempore, Assembly Speaker, and each house’s minority leader to report their house’s goals and objectives when every…Section 28Prohibits urgency effect for bills authorizing or appropriating money to alter historically restored areas of the Capitol’s first three floors or west-wing…