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 Date Published: 02/20/2026 09:00 PM

AB2557:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2557

Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan

February 20, 2026

 An act to amend Section 10248 of the Government Code, relating to the Legislature. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2557, as introduced, Bauer-Kahan.
 Legislative information system: bill position letters.

Existing law requires the Legislative Counsel, with the advice of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, to make certain legislative information available to the public in electronic form, including the text, bill history, and bill status of each bill introduced and amended in each current legislative session and all bill analyses prepared by legislative committees in connection with each bill in each current legislative session.

This bill would add all position letters submitted through the Legislature’s internet portal in connection with each bill in each current legislative session to the information the Legislative Counsel is required to make publicly available in electronic form.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 10248 of the Government Code is amended to read:

10248.

 Public computer network; required legislative information.

(a) The Legislative Counsel shall, with the advice of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, make all of the following information available to the public in electronic form:

(1) The legislative calendar, the schedule of legislative committee hearings, a list of matters pending on the floors of both houses of the Legislature, and a list of the committees of the Legislature and their members.

(2) The text of each bill introduced in each current legislative session, including each amended, enrolled, and chaptered form of each bill.

(3) The bill history of each bill introduced and amended in each current legislative session.

(4) The bill status of each bill introduced and amended in each current legislative session.

(5) All bill analyses prepared by legislative committees in connection with each bill in each current legislative session.

(6) (A) All position letters submitted through the Legislature’s internet portal in connection with each bill in each current legislative session.

(B) For purposes of this paragraph, “position letter” means a letter submitted on behalf of an entity that states that entity’s support, opposition, or neutrality with respect to a bill.

(6)

(7) All audiovisual recordings of legislative proceedings that have been caused to be made by the Legislature in accordance with paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 7 of Article IV of the California Constitution. Each recording shall remain accessible to the public through the Internet and downloadable for a minimum period of 20 years following the date on which the recording was made and shall then be archived in a secure format.

(7)

(8) All vote information concerning each bill in each current
 legislative session.

(8)

(9) Any veto message concerning a bill in each current legislative session.

(9)

(10) The California Codes.

(10)

(11) The California Constitution.

(11)

(12) All statutes enacted on or after January 1, 1993.

(12)

(13) A link to the list of state and local agency reports required by
 paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 9795.

(b) (1) The information identified in subdivision (a) shall be made available to the public by means of access by way of the largest nonproprietary, nonprofit cooperative public computer network. The information shall be made available in one or more formats and by one or more means in order to provide the greatest feasible access to the general public in this state. Any person who accesses the information may access all or any part of the information. The information may also be made available by any other means of access that would facilitate public access to the information. The

(2) The information that is maintained in the legisl