[conspire] Bill numbering (was: Contact DOJ and tell them to blow it out their ass)

[Rick Moen]

Finally moving away from Ruben's ridiculous Subject header.

> That's because designations like 'AB-n' and 'SB-n' get re-used every few
> years.  Probably (I'm speculating, here[1]), at the seating of a newly
> sworn-in legislature, the counting of Assembly and State Senate bill
> numbers starts over again from '1'.  Here is the AB-913 discussed:
> http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB913
> 
> A similar thing happens, you may realise, with California propositions
> on the statewide ballot.  We often speak as if there has only ever
> been one 'Proposition 13' in California, the famous 1978 one about property
> taxes, but there was also one in 2009, for example (I think).

CA proposition numbering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_ballot_proposition#Proposition_numbering

  Originally, ballot propositions were given a number starting at one
  each year.  This tended to be confusing as often famous initiatives such
  as Proposition 13 in 1978 might be confused with another initiative in a
  later year if there were more than twelve proposals on the ballot in any
  given year.  Starting in 1982, the proposition numbers were not re-used
  but would continue to increment until at least a decade had passed from
  when a particular one had appeared on the ballot, eventually resulting
  in proposition numbers exceeding 200.  Starting with the 1998 ballot, the
  count has been reset back to one.  It is now reset every ten years.


CA Assembly Bill numbering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature#Overview_of_legislative_procedure

  Bills are designated by number, in the order of introduction in each
  house.  For example, AB 16 refers to the 16th bill introduced in the
  Assembly.  The numbering starts afresh each session.  There may be one or
  more "extraordinary" sessions.  The bill numbering starts again for each
  of these.  For example, the third bill introduced in the Assembly for
  the second extraordinary session is ABX2 3. The name of the author, the
  legislator who introduced the bill, becomes part of the title of the
  bill.

Above describes Senate Bill numbering (SB-n) in addition to Assembly
Bill (AB-n) numbering.

(As a reminder, each Assembly session, and each State Senate session,
lasts two years, starting in January of odd-numbered years.)