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This Constitutional Amendment modifies the legislative procedure in California by introducing new requirements for how bills are processed and enacted. Specifically, it alters the waiting period before a bill can be heard or acted upon by a committee or the full house, allowing for exceptions if three-fourths of the membership votes to dispense with the requirement or if the bill has been publicly available online for at least 15 days. It also mandates that bills must be read by title on three days in each house, with an option to waive this with a two-thirds vote, and crucially, requires that any bill, in its final form, must be publicly available in print and online for at least 72 hours before a vote can be taken, unless it's an urgency statute necessary to address a declared state of emergency and the Governor provides a written statement justifying the waiver. The amendment also clarifies the effective dates for statutes, generally setting them for January 1st following enactment, with exceptions for urgency statutes, tax levies, appropriations, and election-calling statutes which take effect immediately.