<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56740"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53778"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56756"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53778">Right, I was aware that numbers were re-used from time to time. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56847"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53778"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56858" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56859">>> </span>And remedies seems worse than the cure:<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56860" clear="none">>> His Assembly Bill 913 would clamp down on frequent filers</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56873"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53778"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56875"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53778"> However, when someone referred to AB-913, I made the assumption that it was a current item. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_56822"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53778"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53773" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53785" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53784" style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53783" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53782" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53781" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490487131707_53780" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> conspire@linuxmafia.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 25, 2017 9:55 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [conspire] Bill numbering (was: Contact DOJ and tell them to blow it out their ass)<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Finally moving away from Ruben's ridiculous Subject header.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> That's because designations like 'AB-n' and 'SB-n' get re-used every few<br clear="none">> years. Probably (I'm speculating, here[1]), at the seating of a newly<br clear="none">> sworn-in legislature, the counting of Assembly and State Senate bill<br clear="none">> numbers starts over again from '1'. Here is the AB-913 discussed:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB913" target="_blank">http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB913</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> A similar thing happens, you may realise, with California propositions<br clear="none">> on the statewide ballot. We often speak as if there has only ever<br clear="none">> been one 'Proposition 13' in California, the famous 1978 one about property<br clear="none">> taxes, but there was also one in 2009, for example (I think).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">CA proposition numbering:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_ballot_proposition#Proposition_numbering" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_ballot_proposition#Proposition_numbering</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Originally, ballot propositions were given a number starting at one<br clear="none"> each year. This tended to be confusing as often famous initiatives such<br clear="none"> as Proposition 13 in 1978 might be confused with another initiative in a<br clear="none"> later year if there were more than twelve proposals on the ballot in any<br clear="none"> given year. Starting in 1982, the proposition numbers were not re-used<br clear="none"> but would continue to increment until at least a decade had passed from<br clear="none"> when a particular one had appeared on the ballot, eventually resulting<br clear="none"> in proposition numbers exceeding 200. Starting with the 1998 ballot, the<br clear="none"> count has been reset back to one. It is now reset every ten years.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">CA Assembly Bill numbering:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature#Overview_of_legislative_procedure" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature#Overview_of_legislative_procedure</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Bills are designated by number, in the order of introduction in each<br clear="none"> house. For example, AB 16 refers to the 16th bill introduced in the<br clear="none"> Assembly. The numbering starts afresh each session. There may be one or<br clear="none"> more "extraordinary" sessions. The bill numbering starts again for each<br clear="none"> of these. For example, the third bill introduced in the Assembly for<br clear="none"> the second extraordinary session is ABX2 3. The name of the author, the<br clear="none"> legislator who introduced the bill, becomes part of the title of the<br clear="none"> bill.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Above describes Senate Bill numbering (SB-n) in addition to Assembly<br clear="none">Bill (AB-n) numbering.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(As a reminder, each Assembly session, and each State Senate session,<br clear="none">lasts two years, starting in January of odd-numbered years.)<div class="yqt7743815772" id="yqtfd77549"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>