BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 646| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONSENT Bill No: AB 646 Author: McCarty (D) Amended: 7/8/15 in Senate Vote: 27 - Urgency SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORG. COMMITTEE: 13-0, 7/14/15 AYES: Hall, Berryhill, Block, Gaines, Galgiani, Glazer, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Lara, McGuire, Runner, Vidak SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8 ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 77-0, 5/7/15 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT: State Archives: museum activities SOURCE: Author DIGEST: This bill removes the Secretary of State (SOS), the Director of Parks and Recreation, and the State Archivist from their honorary, nonvoting positions on the governing board of the California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts (California Museum) and, instead, requires the SOS and the Director of Parks and Recreation to act as ex officio voting members of the board. ANALYSIS: Existing law: 1)Requires the SOS to administer the State Archives Building Complex for the use, education and civic engagement by all Californians. AB 646 Page 2 2)Authorizes the SOS to enter into an agreement to operate a museum in the State Archives Building Complex with the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, or its successor. 3)Requires the SOS, the Director of Parks and Recreation, and the State Archivist to act as honorary nonvoting members of the governing board of the corporation. This bill: 1)Removes the SOS, the Director of Parks and Recreation, and the State Archivist from their honorary, nonvoting positions on the governing board of the California Museum, instead, requires the SOS and the Director of Parks and Recreation to act as ex officio voting members of the board. 2)Includes an urgency clause. Background Correction to AB 1234 (McCarty). This bill corrects an issue in law that was created with the passage of AB 1234 (McCarty, Chapter 33, Statutes of 2015) and its signing on June 30, 2015. AB 1234 (McCarty) provided that the SOS and the Director of Parks and Recreation, or their respective designees, were honorary non-voting board members of the foundation's governing board. AB 646 simply restores them as voting members as was the case prior to the signing of AB 1234 (McCarty). The restoration is needed to correct a misinterpretation of current law related to the ability of an ex officio board member's ability to vote. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:YesLocal: No SUPPORT: (Verified8/17/15) None received AB 646 Page 3 OPPOSITION: (Verified8/17/15) None received ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 77-0, 5/7/15 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins NO VOTE RECORDED: Campos, Roger Hernández, Steinorth Prepared by:Felipe Lopez / G.O. / (916) 651-1530 8/18/15 14:20:57 **** END ****