SECTIONS 9795 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 9795

9795. (a) (1) Any report required or requested by law to be
submitted by a state or local agency to the Members of either house
of the Legislature generally, shall instead be submitted as a printed
copy to both the Legislative Counsel and the Secretary of the
Senate, and as an electronic copy to the Chief Clerk of the Assembly.
Each report shall include a summary of its contents, not to exceed
one page in length. If the report is submitted by a state agency,
that agency shall also provide an electronic copy of the summary
directly to each member of the appropriate house or houses of the
Legislature. Notice of receipt of the report shall also be recorded
in the journal of the appropriate house or houses of the Legislature
by the secretary or clerk of that house.
(2) In addition to and as part of the information made available
to the public in electronic form pursuant to Section 10248, the
Legislative Counsel shall make available a list of the reports
submitted by state and local agencies, as specified in paragraph (1).
If the Legislative Counsel receives a request from a member of the
public for a report contained in the list, the Legislative Counsel is
not required to provide a copy of the report and may refer the
requester to the state or local agency, as the case may be, that
authored the report, or to the California State Library as the final
repository of public information.
(b) No report shall be distributed to a Member of the Legislature
unless specifically requested by that member.
(c) Compliance with subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be full
compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 10242.5.
(d) A state agency report and summary subject to this section
shall include an Internet Web site where the report can be downloaded
and telephone number to call to order a hard copy of the report. A
report submitted by a state agency subject to this section shall also
be posted at the agency's Internet Web site.
(e) For purposes of this section, "report" includes any study or
audit.