Volume of Daily Journal Letters Submitted by Bill Authors – 2025 Update

Volume of Daily Journal Letters Submitted by Bill Authors – 2025 Update By Chris Micheli

            One of the main avenues for California legislators to clarify their bills or, most often, to express their intent behind their legislation, is to submit a formal letter to the Assembly Chief Clerk for Assembly Bills or the Senate Secretary for Senate Bills.

Once approved by their respective houses, these letters are published in the Assembly Daily Journals for ABs and the Senate Daily Journals for SBs.

            Having reviewed legislative records for the past two decades to locate all of these letters, I wanted to examine their frequency over the last twenty years and therefore compiled the following chart that shows the number of letters published in the respective Daily Journals in the two houses by year for the past 23 years: 

YEAR

ASSEMBLY

SENATE

Total

2025

10

15

25

2024

15

8

23

2023

13

15

28

2022

12

15

27

2021

16

12

28

2020

9

11

20

2019

27

8

35

2018

12

16

28

2017

15

9

24

2016

21

7

28

2015

13

9

22

2014

11

12

23

2013

11

7

18

2012

16

19

35

2011

21

13

34

2010

16

19

35

2009

7

6

13

2008

23

12

35

2007

11

4

15

2006

23

6

29

2005

7

7

14

2004

19

26

45

2003

22

26

48

TOTALS:

350

282

632

Average Per Year:

15

12

27

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