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LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY * GOVERNMENT RELATIONS COMMITTEEActivities, 2004April 2004: From the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL) GRC Chair, David McFadden APRIL 21 IS LIBRARY LEGISLATIVE DAY 2004! It's time to register for CLA Legislative Day 2004. On April 21, librarians and library supporters will meet in Sacramento to visit to our state legislators. Librarians and their supporters need to be seen and heard in the halls of the Capitol. Check the California Library Association Web site, http://www.cla-net.org/legislation/legday.php, for registration information. You can register on-line, and receive immediate confirmation of your registration. Positions on issues will be posted over the next few days. Once again CLA will partner with the California School Library Association (CSLA). LEGISLATIVE UPDATES This year the Council of California County Law Librarians held their own leg day. The county law library task force created by last year's AB 1095 (2003 Ch. 394) is underway but the CCCLL has no major legislation this year. The SCALL Government Relations Committee is monitoring the following legislation. AB 2437 - makes optional ("may" instead of "shall") the Local Depository Act currently requiring that city and county clerks deposit local documents with three libraries including UCLA. AB 2714 - repeals the Legislative Open Records Act and places legislators under the Public Records Act. The major concern is that the safeguards protecting legislative materials and requiring that they be kept either by the committee or State Archives, which were included in the current law as a result of law librarians' work on SB 1507 ( 1996 Ch. 928) in 1996, would be lost under the current bill. SB 1655 - allows the citation of unpublished opinions in California "for any persuasive value they may have.". It also requires that unpublished opinions be made available electronically to public and private reporting services. The bill protects against professional negligence claims if an unpublished case is not found, cited or relied on. (There was an earlier bill last year on this same subject, AB 1165, which died after not being able to get out of its Assembly Committee.) The Library Distribution Act - The state depository law is being targeted for elimination under what I believe is the Governor's California Performance Review. When more is known, it will be reported. If you have any questions about the Library Legislative Day or the bills and issues that the SCALL GRC is following, please contact me.
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