Websites to find out which bills have been signed or vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger are our sites of the day

Sunday, October 14 at midnight is the last moment for Governor Schwarzenegger to sign, veto, or to allow bills passed by the legislature to become law without his signature.

As of Thursday evening, the Governor had 380 bills remaining on his desk and he has taken action by midafternoon on a number of these. That means he is significantly more than halfway through the 700 or so measures that arrived on his desk at the end of the session last month.

One place to see how the Governor has acted is to look at the press release section of his website for the month of October. There, you will see the first public indication of whether bills become law or not as his office issues legislative updates, sometimes with up to 100 bills in a list that are hyperlinked to the text, analyses, votes, and if rejected by the Governor, his veto message. In some cases, the Governor's press office also puts out releases grouping bills by subject matter, individually, and notices of signing ceremonies.

Another place is to search by bill number, author, or key words, on the state legislature's site. There may be a lag here in recording the Governor's action.

The Secretary of State has a bill chapter page for all that become law or are vetoed, but it lags sometimes by a couple of days in processing this information, and all you get is the "chapter" number, bill number, date of governor's signing, and the chaptered date, and the dates of action on vetoed bills in chronological order.

There are other private places to find this information out and other methods. We have received requests for information about the fate of a number of bills and cannot answer these inquiries. We will continue to provide information on many of these bills in articles and reports, but there are too many to comprehensively cover.