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Tracing California Legislation

Chapters (Bills Which Have become Law)

Statutes of California and Digests of Measures

Arranged by chapter number.
An index is in the last volume for each year: use it to find chapter numbers by topic, or, in the Cross Reference Tables, by bill number.
    In the Library: 1st floor, Reference KFC 25 .C2 (1855- )
    Online:   Statutes 1993-2016     California Legislative Council archived site
                       Search by chapter number and/or year;  or by keywords
                  Statutes 1999- current   California Legislature current site
                       Search by chapter number and/or year;  also by keywords
                  Statutes 1850-2008 Clerk of the Assembly Archives

Chaptered bills can also be found in Bill Information via the California State Legislature
Search by keyword or author, or browse list of bills by session.
The chapter number is included in the Bill Status, and the text as chaptered is in the Bill Text section.
Bill information for sessions 1999-2000 - current
Bill information for sessions 1993-1994 through 2015-2016.

You can also identify the chapter number for a specific bill, using:

either:
Assembly/Senate Histories  The Histories are arranged by bill number and indexed by author
    Assembly Final History
         Available online 1881- 
         Updated by Assembly Weekly History  2003 -  and Assembly Daily History
         In the Library:  1st floor, Government Information, Calif L500 A1 H5a
   Senate Histories
         Available online 1881-
         In the Library:  1st floor, Government Information, Calif L500 A1 H5s
or, by look up by name of the act in:
Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Names: Federal and State.
In the Library:   1st floor, Reference KF 90 .S538 2010 3 volumes