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Volume of Daily Journal Letters Submitted by Bill Authors – 2024 Update

Once approved by their respective houses, these letters are published

By Chris Micheli, October 11, 2024 7:36 pm

One of the main avenues for California legislators to clarify their bills or, most often, to express their intent behind their legislation, is to submit a formal letter to the Assembly Chief Clerk for Assembly Bills or the Senate Secretary for Senate Bills.

Once approved by their respective houses, these letters are published in the Assembly Daily Journals for ABs and the Senate Daily Journals for SBs.

Having reviewed legislative records for the past two decades to locate all of these letters, I wanted to examine their frequency over the last twenty years and therefore compiled the following chart that shows the number of letters published in the respective Daily Journals in the two houses by year for the past 23 years:

YEAR ASSEMBLY SENATE Total
2024 15 8 23
2023 13 15 28
2022 12 15 27
2021 16 12 28
2020 9 11 20
2019 27 8 35
2018 12 16 28
2017 15 9 24
2016 21 7 28
2015 13 9 22
2014 11 12 23
2013 11 7 18
2012 16 19 35
2011 21 13 34
2010 16 19 35
2009 7 6 13
2008 23 12 35
2007 11 4 15
2006 23 6 29
2005 7 7 14
2004 19 26 45
2003 22 26 48
TOTALS: 340 267 607
Average Per Year: 15 12 26
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