Prior to selecting any of the legislative information, it is important that you understand the legislative process and how and where the legislative information fits into the process. The legislative information is indexed by several directories and sub-directories. There is a main public access directory and five other directories that point to the Daily File, Bill Information, California Codes, California Constitution, and Statutes. Each of these five directories is broken down further into sub-directories to allow you to more readily retrieve the information. The main public access directory can be thought of as a tree trunk with branches representing the five directories.
Additional branches represent the sub-directories.
The bill directory also contains four index files. The two Senate index files contain a list of Senate bills with author and topic. One index file is sorted by bill number, and one is sorted by author. The two Assembly index files contain a list of Assembly bills with author and topic. One index file is sorted by bill number, and one is sorted by author.