The Bill Page is your resource for knowing all there is to know about any bill in the California legislature. On this page, you can read all available information about a bill, apply tags, and leave Notes for colleagues within your workspace and externally in your shared Bill Lists.
Bill Page Header
In the bill page's header, you will find general information about the bill and its authors. This includes:
The bill's identifier and most recent title.
The bill's digest keys.
The legislative session that the bill is a part of.
A link to download the PDF version of the bill directly from LegInfo.
A dropdown list of all authors and sponsors tied to the bill.
A dropdown menu for Alert options to track the bill.
Authors Dropdown List
The authors list contains a full collection of all authors and coauthors behind a bill. To explore more authors, toggle the down arrow next to the author's name.
If you hover over the legislator's name and it is highlighted purple, you can access the bill author's information by clicking on their name. This will take you to a new page with the legislator's contact and staffer information.
You are also able to view the legislator's staffer contact information by clicking on the "Show Staffer Info" button, where you can view all of the legislator's staffers, their roles, and their emails.
There is also a Directory page in your Abstract workspace. Learn more here.
Note: While the staffers on the legislator page are updated on a regular basis, the CA Capitol Codex offers the most updated and detailed entries of all staffers in both the Capitol and District Offices of each legislator.
Bill Info
The Bill Info tab offers a high-level view of the bill's progress within the legislature.
In this tab, you can access a full, updated action history of the bill as well as any votes that have been held in a committee or on the floor.
Click "View Vote Details" to see a table of voters, roles, and stances.
Abstract displays the history and updated status of the bill alongside the votes so you can easily see the bill's life cycle in full detail.
Scrolling past the action and vote history on this tab, you will find the Bill Analysis section, a complete list of committee and floor analyses prepared for the bill, along with extracted data Abstract provides such as the registered list of support and opposition. You can download any of these analyses as PDFs.
Bill Text
The Bill Text tab displays the most recent version of the legislative counsel's digest and text. Old text is displayed in red strikethrough, and new language is in blue.
You can use the version dropdown menu at the top of this tab to switch between different versions of the bill, as shown below.
You can download the Bill Text as a PDF by clicking "Export Bill Text," or for the official text from LegInfo, click "Download Bill Text" from the top right corner of the bill page.
Note: For bills starting in the 2023-2024 legislative session, bill texts are formatted to display the amendments that it intends to make to a code section.
Today's Law as Amended
Much like the bill text tab, this tab displays the law as amended by the proposed bill. You can also scroll through versions of this text using the bill version dropdown at the top of the tab. Today's Law as Amended can also be exported as a PDF.
