The CCR's predecessor, the California Administrative Code (CAC), resulted from efforts that began in 1941 to codify the growing body of state regulations. In 1988, the Legislature renamed the CAC to the CCR to reduce confusion with the enacted statutory codes. The OAL contracts with Barclays, a division of Thomson Reuters, to provide a free online version of the official CCR, which is currently provided on the
Web through a
Westlaw-based interface. In 2008,
Carl Malamud published title 24 of the CCR, the
California Building Standards Code, on
Public.Resource.Org for free, even though the OAL claims publishing regulations with the force of law without relevant permissions is unlawful. In March 2012, Malamud published the rest of the CCR on law.resource.org. In February 2013
California State Assemblyman
Brian Nestande (R-
42) introduced AB 292 that would mandate the CCR be published under a
Creative Commons license. == Procedure ==