The California Legislature's Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education made a restudy of the 1960 Master Plan. The process used by the committee is examined. The process is unusual in that it was undertaken by the legislature itself rather than by an independent commission, and also in that it strove for fairly widespread participation and discussion of its problems and proposals. The California process is analyzed and evaluated against several current planning "models." Recommendations of the committee's study are presented, and their subsequent disposition by the legislature and by the voters is discussed. (Author/JMF)