Bills Bills Bills
The person who writes the bill
Who is the author or lead author?
The two houses of legislators
What are the Assembly and the Senate?
The name of the person who heads a committee
What is the committee chair?
The 3 actions a governor can do to a bill
What is sign it, veto it, and not sign it?
The name of the person who vetoes bills
Who is Governor Gavin Newsom?
The house of origin for a bill like SB 213
What is the Senate?
The number of Assembly members in the California legislature
80
The title of the leader of the Assembly
What is the Speaker?
The name of the committee that assigns what committees a bill must go through
What is the rules committee?
The name of the new Senator representing Mills Peninsula
Who is Sen Josh Becker?
The term when a bill is sent to 3 committees
What is triple referred?
The length of a term for a Senator
What is 4 years?
The title of the Leader of the Senate
What is Pro Tem or President Pro Tem?
The number of votes needed for a bill to pass the assembly if it isn’t an appropriations bill (no $)
What is 41?
The name of the assembly member representing Alta Bates
Who is Asm. Buffy Wicks?
The slang term for when all of the legislators of a house vote on the bill
What is "goes to the floor" or "floor vote?"
The length of term of an assembly member
What is 2 years?
The name of the current speaker
The number of votes need for a bill to pass the Senate if it is an appropriations bill
What is 27?
The name of the chair of the Assembly Health committee and assembly member representing Santa Rosa
Who is Asm. Jim Wood?
The term when a bill has to come back to the house of origin to approve changes made in the opposite house
What is concurrence?
The total amount of years one can be in the California legislature
What is 12 years total in the legislature?
The name of the Pro Tem
Who is Sen. Toni Atkins?
The elected official that assigns a Chapter Number to the passed bill so it becomes part of the California Code
What is the Secretary of State?
The name of the Senator that represents Santa Cruz and is also on the Rules Committee
Who is Sen John Laird?