4.1 Senate Daily File

Senate Committees

This document identifies each Senate committee, its capitol room number and telephone number, and lists the chairman, vice-chairman, members, and principle staff of the committee

Senate Committee Hearings

This document is ordered by date and identifies each scheduled committee hearing and the topics or bills to be heard by a committee on that date.

Senate Floor Daily File:

This document identifies each item to be voted on in the next scheduled senate floor session.

You may be interested in reading more on the following subjects:

Sessions-- a description of Current, Prior, Regular and Extraordinary Sessions

Process -- a description of the process of getting a bill through the legislature

Glossary -- a list of special terminology and definitions.

Accessing Documents

WWW (World Wide Web)

Direct your Web Browser to: URL: http:://www.sen.ca.gov/

Select: Legislative Schedules

Then Select: Senate Daily File

OR Under SENATE, Select: senate_committees

OR Under SENATE, Select: senate_comm_hearings

OR Under SENATE, Select: senate_floor

Gopher

"Point" your Gopher to: gopher.sen.ca.gov

If your Gopher does not have an option to point it to particular domain references, then locate the gopher menu option Gopher Jewels (Nearly every Gopher is set up to reference "Gopher Jewels"by some means). Then follow the gopher menus via Government/ and State Government/ to California Legislature Gopher.

From the Senate Root Menu,

Select: California State Senate (Offices and Floor Action)/

Then Select: Legislative Calendar

OR Select: Senate Daily File/

Then Select: senate_comm_hearings.

Or Select: senate_committees.

Or Select: senate_floor.

E-Mail

Send your request for information via E-Mail as follows (you my include any number of requests in a single e-mail):

Mail to: senate-news@sen.ca.gov
Subject: doesn't matter
   Text: get access calendar Legislative_Calendar.
         get access sen-file Senate_Committees.
         get access sen-file Senate_Comm_Hearings.