California’s Named Legislative Acts

Prior to adoption of Joint Rule 10.6, the California Legislature named Acts after the legislator(s) who principally authored those Acts. Joint Rule 10.6. provides: “A bill may not add a short title that names a current or former Member of the Legislature.”

Prior to this Joint Rule, many important legislative enactments were named after legislators. Among these enactments are the following:

Knox-Keene Health Care Services Plan Act of 1975

Ralph M. Brown Act

Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act

Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000

Hertzberg-Alarcon California Prevention of Terrorism Act

Voting Modernization Bond Act of 2002 (Shelley-Hertzberg Act)

Dills-Bronzan Winegrowers Joint Commission Act of 1986

Ralph C. Dills Act

“Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.”

Brown-Presley Trial Court Funding Act

Song-Brown Family Physician Training Act

Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act 

 Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973

Collier-Z’berg Act

Chappie-Z’berg Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Law of 1971

Roberti-Z’berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation Program Act

Z’berg-Collier Park Bond Act

Z’berg-Warren-Keene-Collier Forest Taxation Reform Act

Keene-Nielsen Fisheries Restoration Act of 1985

Keene-Nejedly California Wetlands Preservation Act

Collier-Keene State Hostel Facilities Act

Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act

Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act

N. Waters-Nielsen-Vuich-Berryhill Foreign Market Development Export Incentive Program for California Agriculture Act.

Bergeson-Costa-Nielsen County Revenue Stabilization Act of 1987

The above legislative enactments are just a sampling of those that can be found in California’s 29 Codes.