Series Description

Physical Description: 634 file folders-1 audiocassette

Bill Files are arranged chronologically by legislative session, then numerically by bill number.

Bill Files were created by Gwen Moore while she served as a state Assembly Member from 1979-1994. The files may include bill analyses, amendments and resolutions, author's statements, testimony, press releases, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and committee statements. Audio/visual material included in the files has been moved to a cold-storage vault for preservation purposes and separation sheets are included in the file folders to alert the researcher to the existence of the material.

Moore's legislation covered several topics including low income housing (AB1092 from 1979-1980); dental exams and soft drink taxes (AB2653, 1981-1982); weight distance and mileage fees (AB1716, 1981-1982); domestic violence (AB3568 and AB3569, 1981-1982); telephone service (AB1348, 1983-1984); gang violence (AB2013, 1987-1988); and recycling (AB1796, 1989-1990). Some of Moore's exceptional bills included: AB1946 (1979-1980) establishing a $10 fee on marriage/divorce licenses to go to county domestic abuse programs; AB2384 (1981-1982) or the "Priorities in Placement of Children in Foster Care and Adoptions and Redesign of the Adoption Assistance Program;" AB101 (1983-1984) or the "Landslide Hazard Identification Program;" AB512 (1983-1984) or the "Cable Communications Franchising and Refranchising Act;" AB3326 (1985-1986) regarding genetic paternity testing; AB1506 (1989-1990) restricting the ability of local governments to impose regulations on the operation of limousines for hire on airport property; AB1796 (1989-1990) or the "Problem Plastics Elimination Act;" AB311 (1991-1992) protecting housing applicants from sexual discrimination; and AB1287 (1993-1994) or the "Nonlawyer Provider Identification and Study Program."

1979-1980 (25ff), AB491-AB3256, ACA84, ACR43-ACR138 LP442:1-25

1981-1982 (67ff), AB634-AB3570, ACR109, AJR5-AJR109,SCR111 LP442:26-92

1983-1984 (91ff), AB96-AB4022, ACR16, AJR5-AJR112 LP442:93-183

1985-1986 (72ff), AB613-AB4363, ACA9-ACA42, ACR18-ACR154, AJR71-AJR72, HR18 LP442:184-255

1987-1988 (95ff), AB115-AB4687, ACA4-ACA36, ACR12-ACR169, AJR20-AJR65, HR8 LP442:256-350

1989-1990 (99ff), AB77-AB4332, ACA17-ACA48, ACR24-ACR87, AJR69-AJR70, HR45, AB23X LP442:351-449

1991-1992 (101ff), AB77-AB3826, ACA34, AJR7-AJR78, AB49X-AB56X, AB1XX, HR30 LP442:450-550

1993-1994 (84ff), AB431-AB3619, ACR30 LP442:551-634

Access to audiovisual material requires the production of use copies.

Physical Description: 26 file folders

Arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Family Leave Files include reports, news clippings, correspondence, and interest group memoranda regarding past and present family leave law in California. Also included are records on family leave laws in other states and countries, employer policies from companies in California, cost of leave analysis, demographic information, the Yale Bush Center Infant Care Leave Project, the Children Now Survey, elder care and senior citizen information, federal legislation and other topics. Family Leave Files generally cover the issue of extending unpaid leave for the care of a newborn, newly adopted child, seriously ill or injured child, elder spouse, elder parents, or grandparents for up to four months. Corresponding bills are AB613 (1985-1986), AB368 and AB2738 (1987-1988), AB77 (1989-1990), AB77 and AB2477 (1991-1992), AB1460 and AB3619 (1993-1994).

Physical Description: 26 file folders

Arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Weight Distance Files include background, reports, brochures, publications, memoranda, agendas, testimonies, speeches, analyses, news clippings, surveys and statistical data regarding cost allocation in California and other states, federal weight distance information, documents from Californians for Fair Highway Taxes, the Power Unit Tax, infrastructure studies, documents concerning Public Utilities Commission rate deregulation, and similar topics.

Physical Description: 35 file folders

Arranged alphabetically by last name of corresponding party.

Files include a sampling of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Assembly Member Moore and state agencies, constituents, other legislative staffers and members of the Legislature. Also included are news clippings that pertain to Moore's legislative agenda and reports that relate to the bills she introduced in the Assembly. Topics discussed in the correspondence files vary, but focus on correspondence made by attorneys, political action groups, interest groups, businesses and corporations. Support and opposition letters are also included and cover topics such as adoption and family leave, private club discrimination, weight distance and telephone service.

Physical Description: 7 file folders- 2 VHS tapes

Arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Access to audiovisual material requires the production of use copies.

Files include committee meeting notes, memoranda, background information, testimonies, speeches and reports regarding nuclear decommission in Diablo Canyon from a series of meetings in 1984. John Clewett, an attorney working with the Government Accountability Project of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, identified former workers at the Diablo Canyon plant who worked for Pullman Power Products during a specific period of operation. Clewett and his plaintiffs worked to uncover several safety-related problems and spoke openly about the problems when it became apparent that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would prematurely allow the startup of Diablo Canyon before it was safe to operate. Utilities and Commerce Commission Files include the information that came from these testimonies, background investigation, and commission meetings.