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anyone interested in pointing out how this may be a bad thing, and whether the good portion of it outweighs those?THE CITIZEN LEGISLATURE ACT SECTION I. Title. This Ac! shall be known and may be cited as "The Citizen Legislature Act." SECTJON 2. Findings and Purposes. The People oftht: State of Cali fomia hereby make the following findings and declare that their purpose in enacting this Act is as follows: (a) California's experiment with a "full-time" Legislature has failed. The result has been a Legislature dominated by career politicians beholden to special interests. Legislators do not work "full-time" yet they receive fu ll-time pay and benefits, morc than double the amount of all other Slates. Yet, with all of these incentives, they continually fail to accomplish their most important job, passing a balanced state budget on-time. (b) California needs and deserves a Legislature that is only interested in conducting the people's business, Most st.ates have a part-time Legislature, including some of the largest and most populous. A part-time Legislature will replace professional politicians with citizen legislators and will break the stranglehold of special interests. It will reduce the number of unnecessary and self-serving bills and will result in a more responsible and accountable government institution. (c) In order to further these and the purposes stated in section 1.5, the people hereby amend the California Constitution to enact the "Citizen Legislature Act." SECTION 3. Constitutional Amendment Section 3.5 of Article IV of the California Constitution is added to read as follows: Sec. 3.5(a) The Legislature shall reconvene in regular session on the first Monday in January of each year for a period not to exceed 30 calendar days, whereupon the Legislature shall stand in recess. The Legislature shall reconvene in regular session on the first Monday in May for a period not to exceed 60 calendar days, (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the Lcgislature may reconvene for an additional period of 5 days following recess or adjournment to reconsider bills vetoed by the Governor pursuant to section 10. SECTION 4. Operative DatefScvcrability (a) Section 3.5 shall become effective immediately, however it shall become operative for the biennium session commenCing on the first Monday in December in 2012. (b) If any pan of this measure or the application 10 any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisiom or applications which can reasonably be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
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