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California Legislative History and Advocacy

URL: https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/callegislativehistory

Audio and Video of California Floor Debates and Committee Hearings

The California legislature began recording selected floor debates and committee hearings in the late 1980s.

The Senate and Assembly post links to upcoming video and audio streams of their proceedings:

Recordings of recent floor debates and committee hearings are available online:

Older floor debates and committee hearings can be purchased from the California State Archives:

In searching for audio and video, you may run across references to CalChannel, a television channel that broadcast California legislative proceedings from 1993 to 2019. CalChannel closed in 2019: