Look for "legislative intent" letters in the Assembly Journal
In recent decades occasional letters from individual legislators have appeared in the Assembly Journal (Stacks, KFC5) expressing the intent of language in a bill or the scope or purpose of a bill. These legislative intent letters do not appear in the bill history, but you should check for them on the dates any action was taken on the bill. You may also find them by looking in the Alphabetical Index to Assembly Journal under "JOURNAL, PRINT IN--Legislative Intent, Letters of--[followed by bill numbers]" or "PRINT IN JOURNAL--[followed by the author of the bill and the bill number]." Other Index headings to try include the name of the legislator who introduced the bill, the governor's name or "LEGISLATIVE INTENT." You can also find them by checking the Bill Action Index in the Assembly Journal Index. They generally appear in the Assembly Journal the year that a bill is acted on, but occasionally they appear after a law has gone into effect, so you may want to check the Assembly Journal indexes for several years for a given bill.
You may also look online for Assembly Journals by going to the Clerk of the Assembly's website for Journals 1995-present (click on the Journals tab at the right side) or the Clerk's website for archived (pre-1995) Journals
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