California’s Named Legislative Acts
Now, a bill may not add a short title that names a current or former Member of the Legislature
By Chris Micheli, April 5, 2022 6:30 am
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.
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I’d like to add one to the list. The Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act 1973. It establishes the measurement standard that if a certain portion of the population speaks a specific language, government documents to be provided in that language. Somehow that does not apply or is being ignored by CalRecycle by not providing regulations in other languages for participants providing services to the state and the public.