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2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9400.

9400. As used in this chapter, “committee” means a committee of either the Senate or Assembly, a joint committee of both houses, or, when any of the foregoing committees is authorized to create subcommittees, a subcommittee.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9401.

9401. A subpoena requiring the attendance of any witness before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee may be issued by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, or the chairman of any committee before whom the attendance of the witness is desired if permission has been secured from the Rules Committee of the respective house.
(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1672, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9402.

9402. A subpoena is sufficient if it:
(a) States whether the proceeding is before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee.
(b) Is addressed to the witness.
(c) Requires the attendance of the witness at a time and place certain.
(d) Is signed by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, or chairman of the committee before whom attendance of the witness is desired.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 71, Sec. 68. (SB 1304) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9403.

9403. The service of a subpena may be made by any person over 18 years of age.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9404.

9404. (a) The members of any committee may administer oaths to witnesses in any matter under examination.
(b) Anyone authorized to administer oaths who is designated by the chairman of a committee may administer oaths to witnesses.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 575.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9405.

9405. If any witness neglects or refuses to obey a subpena, or appearing, neglects or refuses to testify, or to produce upon reasonable notice any material and proper books, papers or documents in his possession or under his control, he has committed a contempt.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9406.

9406. If the contempt is committed before the Senate or Assembly, the Senate or Assembly may commit him for contempt by resolution entered on the Senate or Assembly Journal, as the case may be.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9407.

9407. If the contempt is committed before a committee during the session of the Legislature, the committee shall report the contempt to the Senate or Assembly, as the case may be, for such action as may be deemed necessary by the Senate or Assembly.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9408.

9408. If the contempt is committed before a committee when the Legislature is not in session, the superior court in and for the county in which any inquiry, investigation, hearing or proceeding may be held by the committee may compel the attendance of the witness, the giving of testimony, and the production of books, papers, documents and accounts, as required by the subpena issued by the committee, on the filing by the committee of a petition to the court asking that the witness be so compelled.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9409.

9409. Any witness neglecting or refusing to attend in obedience to subpena may be arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms and brought before the Senate, Assembly or committee, as the case may be. The only warrant or authority necessary authorizing the arrest is a copy of a resolution of the Senate, the Assembly or committee signed by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly or chairman of the committee, as the case may be, and countersigned by the Secretary of the Senate, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly or a majority of the members of the committee, as the case may be.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9409.5.

9409.5. No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he or she shall be examined by the Senate, Assembly, or a committee, upon the ground that the testimony to the fact or the production of the paper may tend to disgrace the witness or otherwise render the witness infamous.
(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1672, Sec. 1.5.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9410.

9410. (a) If, in response to a question posed, or a command to produce documents or other materials issued, by the Senate, the Assembly, or a committee, a witness asserts his or her privilege against self-incrimination, and the person presiding over the proceeding directs the witness that, notwithstanding that assertion of privilege, he or she is required to answer the question or produce the documents or other materials, the witness may not refuse to testify or produce the documents or other materials on the basis of his or her privilege against self-incrimination. However, if a witness is compelled to testify or produce documents or other materials notwithstanding his or her assertion of the privilege against self-incrimination, as described in this subdivision, both of the following shall apply:
(1) The witness may not be held to answer criminally or be subject criminally to any penalty or forfeiture for any fact or act touching upon either testimony that he or she was so compelled to provide, or documents or other materials that he or she was so compelled to produce.
(2) Any testimony or documents or other materials that the witness is so compelled to provide shall not be competent evidence in any criminal proceeding against the witness except in a prosecution for perjury or contempt.
(b)  In the case of a subpoena that requires a witness to produce documents or other materials but does not require the witness to personally appear, the witness under subpoena may assert his or her privilege against self-incrimination only by communicating an assertion of the privilege to the President pro Tempore of the Senate, if the subpoena was issued by the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly, if the subpoena was issued by the Assembly, or the chair of the committee, if the subpoena was issued by a committee. The Senate, the Assembly, or committee, as the case may be, may compel the witness to produce the documents or materials notwithstanding the privilege against self-incrimination as to those documents or other materials only by (1) issuing a subsequent subpoena calling for the witness to personally appear, (2) upon that appearance, asking the witness whether he or she continues to assert the privilege, and, if so, (3) directing the witness that, notwithstanding that assertion of privilege, he or she is required to produce the documents or other materials called for by the subpoena as to which that assertion of privilege was made.
(c) Immunity is conferred upon a witness pursuant to this chapter only if the witness is compelled, as specified by this section, to testify or produce documents or other materials notwithstanding the assertion of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.
(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 195, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9411.

9411. Every State department, office, board, commission or bureau, including The Regents of the University of California, shall discharge any person who commits a contempt before any committee. Such person shall receive no compensation from the State or any agency thereof for services rendered after the date of such refusal.
No State department, office, board, commission or bureau, including The Regents of the University of California, shall ever employ or compensate for services any person who has at any time prior to the proposed employment or compensation committed a contempt before any committee.
The committee shall read this section to the person so refusing, and shall certify the refusal to the State Personnel Board and to the State Controller. Upon receipt of such certificate, the State Personnel Board shall immediately notify every State department, office, board, commission or bureau, including The Regents of the University of California, by whom such person is or has at any time been employed.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9412.

9412. Every person who, being summoned to attend as witness before the Senate, Assembly, or any committee, refuses or neglects, without lawful excuse, to attend pursuant to such summons, and every person who, being present before the Senate, Assembly, or any committee, wilfully refuses to be sworn, to answer any material and proper question, or to produce, upon reasonable notice, any material and proper books, papers, or documents in his possession or under his control is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every member of the Legislature convicted of a misdemeanor under this section, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his office and is forever disqualified from holding any office in the State.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 4 - Witnesses › Section 9414.

9414. (a) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor:
(1) Coerces or attempts to coerce any person not to appear as a witness before any committee.
(2) Deprives, attempts to deprive, or threatens to deprive any other person, or requests any employer to deprive any employee, of lawful employment, when such deprivation, attempt, threat, or request is motivated by the fact that the other person or employee is, was, or may become a witness before a committee.
(b) Any employer or person acting on behalf of an employer who, directly or indirectly, harasses any person employed by that employer, when the harassment is motivated by the fact that the employee is, was, or may be a witness before a committee, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) This section shall not be construed to prevent any employer from discharging an employee for cause nor shall it be construed to prevent a labor union or an agent thereof from requesting the dismissal of an employee when the request is motivated by a cause other than that specified herein.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1512, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9500.

9500. As used in this chapter, “clerk” means the engrossing and enrolling clerk or the employee who performs the duties of engrossing and enrolling clerk when no employee is so designated by name.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9501.

9501. As used in this chapter, “committee” means the engrossing and enrolling committee of the house ordering the engrossing or enrolling of a bill or other document or the committee of such house which performs the duties of engrossing and enrolling committee when no committee is so designated by name.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9501.5.

9501.5. The enacting clause of every law shall be “The people of the State of California do enact as follows:”.
(Added by Stats. 1966, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 161.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9502.

9502. All bills and other documents ordered engrossed or enrolled by the Senate or Assembly shall be delivered by the Secretary of the Senate or Chief Clerk of the Assembly, as the case may be, to the clerk of the house ordering the engrossment or enrollment.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9503.

9503. The clerk shall deliver the bills and documents without delay, in the order of their receipt, to the State Printer.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9504.

9504. The State Printer shall receipt for the bills or documents, and without delay engross or enroll (print) them in the order of their receipt by him. So soon as printed, at least one enrolled copy, with proper blanks for the signatures of the officers whose duty it is to sign enrolled bills and documents, shall be printed on bond paper.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9505.

9505. The State Printer shall deliver the engrossed or enrolled copy of the bill or document, with the original thereof, to the clerk from whom he received the original. The clerk shall carefully compare the engrossed or enrolled copy with the original. If correctly engrossed or enrolled, he shall report it back with the original to the committee.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9506.

9506. All bills and documents that have been printed shall be considered engrossed if no amendments have been made after being printed. The original bill or document shall be delivered to the clerk of the house where it originated. He shall compare the original with the printed bill or document, and forthwith deliver it to the committee for return to the house in the same manner as engrossed bills.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9507.

9507. If the enrolled copy of a bill or other document is found to be correct, the committee shall present it to the proper officers for their signatures. When the officers sign their names thereon, as required by law, it is enrolled.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9508.

9508. Enrolled bills shall be transmitted to the Governor for his approval. Until otherwise provided by the joint rules of the Legislature, enrolled constitutional amendments and enrolled joint and concurrent resolutions shall be transmitted to the Governor and then filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9509.

9509. As soon as an enrolled bill is delivered to the Governor, it shall be endorsed as follows: “This bill was received by the Governor this ____ day of ____, 20__.” The endorsement shall be signed by the private secretary of the Governor or by any other person designated by the Governor whose designation has been reported to the Speaker of the Assembly and the President pro Tempore of the Senate.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 93.6. Effective January 1, 2003.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9510.

9510. When the Governor approves a bill, he shall affix his name thereto, with the date of signing, and deposit it in the Office of the Secretary of State, where it becomes the official record. Upon the receipt of any such bill, the Secretary of State shall give it a number, to be known as the chapter number. He shall number each bill in the order in which it is received by him, and the order of numbering shall be presumed to be the order in which the bills were approved by the Governor.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 334.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9510.5.

9510.5. There shall be two series of bill chapter numbers for each two-year regular session of the Legislature. Bills deposited with the Secretary of State from the beginning of the two-year session through December 31 of the odd-numbered year shall be designated “Statutes of [odd-numbered year], Chapter ____.” Bills deposited with the Secretary of State after December 31 of the odd-numbered year shall be designated “Statutes of [even-numbered year], Chapter ____.” Concurrent resolutions, joint resolutions, and proposed constitutional amendments adopted by the Legislature shall be chaptered as resolution chapters with a different series of numbers than those assigned to bills but shall otherwise be numbered and designated in the same manner as bills enacted into law.
(Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 334.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9511.

9511. If a bill presented to the Governor contains an item or several items of appropriation, he may object to one or more items while approving other portions of the bill. In such case he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects, and the reasons therefor. If the Legislature is in session, the Governor shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of the statement. The items so objected to shall be separately reconsidered in the same manner as bills which have been disapproved by the Governor.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9512.

9512. When a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature and is returned by the Governor without his signature, and with objections thereto, or if it be a bill containing an item or several items of appropriation which is returned with objections to one or more items, and upon reconsideration the bill, item, or items pass both houses by the constitutional majority, the bill, item, or items shall be authenticated as having become a law by a certificate.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9513.

9513. The certificate shall be indorsed on or attached to the bill, or indorsed on or attached to the copy of the statement of objections. It shall be in the following form: “This bill having been returned by the Governor with his objections thereto, and, after reconsideration, having passed both houses by the constitutional majority, has become a law this ____ day of ____, ____”; or, “The following items in the within statement (naming them) having, after reconsideration, passed both houses by the constitutional majority, have become a law this ____ day of ____, ____.” A certificate signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly is a sufficient authentication thereof.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9514.

9514. The bill or statement so authenticated shall then be delivered to the Governor, and by him deposited with the laws in the Office of the Secretary of State. Bills so deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State shall be given a chapter number in the manner provided in Section 9510.
(Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 5.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9515.

9515. If on the day the Governor desires to return a bill without his approval and with his objections thereto the house in which it originated has adjourned for the day, he may deliver the bill with his message to the Secretary of the Senate if it originated in the Senate, Chief Clerk of the Assembly if it originated in the Assembly, or any member of the house in which it originated. Such delivery is as effectual as though returned when the house was meeting.
(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 23.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9516.

9516. Except as otherwise provided in this section, every bill which has passed both houses of the Legislature, and has not been returned by the Governor within 12 days, thereby becoming a law, is authenticated by the Governor causing the fact to be certified thereon by the Secretary of State in the following form: “This bill having remained with the Governor 12 days, and the Legislature being in session, it has become a law this ____ day of ____, ____.” The certificate shall be signed by the Secretary of State and deposited with the laws in his office.
Upon the receipt of such a bill and certificate, the Secretary of State shall assign a chapter number to the bill in the manner provided in Section 9510.
Every bill which has been passed by the Legislature before September 1 of the second calendar year of the biennium of the legislative session, which was in the possession of the Governor on or after September 1, and which has not been returned by the Governor on or before September 30 of that year, thereby becoming a law, is authenticated by the Governor causing the fact to be certified thereon by the Secretary of State in the following form: “This bill having been passed by the Legislature before September 1 of the second calendar year of the biennium of the legislative session, having been in the possession of the Governor on or after September 1 of such year, and having remained with the Governor through September 30 of such year, it has become a law this ____ day of ____.” The certificate shall be signed by the Secretary of State and deposited with the laws in his office.
Upon the receipt of such a bill and certificate, the Secretary of State shall assign a chapter number to the bill in the manner provided in Section 9510.
(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 23.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions › Section 9517.

9517. The Legislature shall finish its actions on the budget required by the Constitution by June 15th of each year.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 980.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 6 - Operation of Statutes and Resolutions › Section 9600.

9600. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a statute enacted at a regular session shall go into effect on January 1 next following a 90-day period from the date of enactment of the statute and a statute enacted at a special session shall go into effect on the 91st day after adjournment of the special session at which the bill was passed.
(b) Statutes calling elections, statutes providing for tax levies or appropriations for the usual current expenses of the state, and urgency statutes shall go into effect immediately upon their enactment.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 6 - Operation of Statutes and Resolutions › Section 9602.

9602. Every concurrent and joint resolution takes effect upon the filing of it with the Secretary of State.
(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 123.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 6 - Operation of Statutes and Resolutions › Section 9603.

9603. The general rules for the construction of statutes are contained in the preliminary provisions of the different codes.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 6 - Operation of Statutes and Resolutions › Section 9604.

9604. When the provisions of one statute are carried into another statute under circumstances in which they are required to be construed as restatements and continuations and not as new enactments, any reference made by any statute, charter or ordinance to such provisions shall, unless a contrary intent appears, be deemed a reference to the restatements and continuations.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 6 - Operation of Statutes and Resolutions › Section 9605.

9605. (a) (1) When a section or part of a statute is amended, it is not to be considered as having been repealed and reenacted in the amended form. The unaltered provisions are to be considered as having been the law from the time when those provisions were enacted. The new provisions are to be considered as having been enacted at the time of the amendment. The omitted provisions are to be considered as having been repealed at the time of the amendment.
(2)  When the same section or part of a statute is amended by two or more acts enacted at the same session, any portion of provisions from an earlier one of those successive acts that are omitted by a subsequent act shall be deemed to have been omitted deliberately and any provisions omitted by an earlier act that are restored by a subsequent act shall be deemed to have been restored deliberately.
(b) When the same section or part of a statute is amended by two or more statutes enacted at the same session:
(1) In the absence of any express provision to the contrary in the statute that is enacted last, it shall be conclusively presumed that the statute that is enacted last is intended to prevail over statutes that are enacted earlier at the same session.
(2)  In the absence of any express provision to the contrary in the statute with a higher chapter number, it shall be presumed that the statute with a higher chapter number is intended by the Legislature to prevail over a statute that is enacted at the same session with a lower chapter number. For the purposes of this paragraph, every statute enacted in the even-numbered year of a two-year regular session of the Legislature is deemed to bear a higher chapter number than any statute enacted in the odd-numbered year of that session.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 28, Sec. 59. (SB 1380) Effective January 1, 2023.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 6 - Operation of Statutes and Resolutions › Section 9606.

9606. Any statute may be repealed at any time, except when vested rights would be impaired. Persons acting under any statute act in contemplation of this power of repeal.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 2 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 1 - LEGISLATURE › CHAPTER 6 - Operation of Statutes and Resolutions › Section 9607.

9607. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no statute or part of a statute, repealed by another statute, is revived by the repeal of the repealing statute without express words reviving such repealed statute or part of a statute.
(b) If a later enacted statute that deletes or extends the date of termination or repeal of a previously enacted law is chaptered before such date of termination or repeal, the terminated or repealed law is revived when the later enacted statute becomes operative.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 10.)
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9608. The termination or suspension (by whatsoever means effected) of any law creating a criminal offense does not constitute a bar to the indictment or information and punishment of an act already committed in violation of the law so terminated or suspended, unless the intention to bar such indictment or information and punishment is expressly declared by an applicable provision of law.
(Amended by Stats. 1943, Ch. 381.)
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9609. A statute amending a section of a repealed statute is void.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
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9610. The fixing or authorizing the fixing of the salary of a State officer or employee by statute is not intended to and does not constitute an appropriation of money for the payment of the salary. The salary shall be paid only in the event that moneys are made available therefor by another provision of law.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
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9611. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, whenever a provision of law is temporarily suspended, or is expressly or impliedly modified or repealed by a provision which is declared to be effective for only a limited period, the original provisions are not to be deemed repealed, but upon the expiration of the time of the temporary suspension or the effectiveness of the inconsistent provision, the original provision shall have the same force and effect as if the temporary provision had not been enacted.
(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 385.)
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9612. Unless the context otherwise requires whenever the terms United States Army, Army of the United States, United States Navy, or military service appear in a statute whether singly or any combination of them, they shall be deemed to include the United States Air Force.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 165.)
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9700. All printing ordered by the Legislature or the Senate or Assembly, and all printing to be charged to legislative printing shall be governed by the joint rules and by the rules of the respective houses insofar as applicable. After final adjournment, the rules in effect at the time of adjournment shall continue to govern until the adoption of rules at the subsequent session.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9701. The receipt of the Secretary of the Senate or Chief Clerk of the Assembly is a sufficient voucher for printing for any work done for the house of which the person issuing the receipt is an officer.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.)
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9702. The Secretary of the Senate, in the case of Members and Members-elect of the Senate, and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, in the case of Members and Members-elect of the Assembly, shall, prior to the convening of any session of the Legislature, order the printing of all legislative bills and constitutional amendments which have been approved for printing by the Committee on Rules of the Senate, upon the request of Members and Members-elect of the Senate, or the Committee on Rules of the Assembly, upon the request of Members and Members-elect of the Assembly; provided, that such approval shall not be required as to requests for the printing of bills where such requests are made after the general election by members or members-elect who certify in writing that they intend to introduce such bills at the convening of the session. They shall be printed by the State Printing Office, and the cost paid out of the appropriation for legislative printing.
(Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 299.)
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9703. The State Printing Office shall print the laws, including initiative measures adopted by the people, public documents ordered to be printed by the Legislature, the Journals of the Senate and Assembly, and bills, resolutions, and other printing ordered by the Senate or Assembly.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9704. Proceeds from sales of all documents, the cost of publication of which is or has been paid from any appropriation for legislative printing, shall be credited to the General Fund.
(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 870.)
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9705. The general officers of the Assembly whose names and titles shall appear on the frontpiece of all publications sponsored in whole or in part by the Assembly, are:
(a) The Speaker
(b) The Speaker pro Tempore
(c) The Majority Floor Leader
(d) The Minority Floor Leader
(e) The Chief Clerk.
(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 9.)
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9706. The Legislative Printing Fund in the State Treasury is abolished. The Controller, on the effective date of this section, shall transfer the balance in that fund to the General Fund. Any reference in state law to the Legislative Printing Fund shall be construed to refer to the General Fund.
(Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 870.)
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9708. Whenever the Senate or the Assembly undertakes to publish in a separate volume the Constitution of the State of California and related documents, the text of such a volume shall be specified by the Joint Rules Committee.
(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 618.)
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9720. The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall determine what is a sufficient number of copies to supply the members of both houses and chief officers daily during the session with the Journal of the previous day’s proceedings of each house.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9721. A sufficient number of copies, with proper repaging, as determined by the Secretary and Chief Clerk, shall also be bound at the end of the session of the Legislature as the Journals of the Senate and Assembly.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9722. Each daily Journal and the Journals of the Senate and Assembly shall be printed by the State Printing Office. Each daily Journal shall be printed in book form separately, and the Journals of the Senate and Assembly shall be bound in book form.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9723. One copy of the daily Journal of each house, upon its approval by the house, shall be authenticated as so approved by the chief clerk or secretary of the house.
(Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 316.)
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9724. Upon final adjournment of the Legislature, the authenticated copy of the daily Journal of each house for the entire session shall be properly bound in separate volumes and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State as the official journals of both houses of the Legislature.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9740. The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall during the month of December in each even-numbered year, commence to compile a legislative manual or handbook. The compilation shall be completed as soon as practical after the convening of the session, and the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall immediately thereafter publish and distribute the legislative manual or handbook, in such manner as they may determine.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.)
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9741. The legislative manual shall be uniform in size and style with similar publications of previous sessions. It shall include:
(a) A list of State officers.
(b) Members and officers of both houses.
(c) Lists of committees.
(d) The rules of both houses and the joint rules.
(e) Other information deemed by the Secretary and Chief Clerk to be of use to Members of the Legislature.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9742. The manual shall be distributed as follows:
(a) To each Senator and Assemblyman as determined by the Rules Committee of the respective houses.
(b) Each elective state officer, one copy.
(c) The State Library, five copies.
(d) Each free public library in the state, one copy.
(e) The Congressional Library at Washington, D.C., five copies.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.)
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9743. The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall each retain the number of manuals needed for use in the respective houses and for distribution to the Members of the Senate and Assembly for the succeeding session of the Legislature.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9744. The remainder shall be sold at a price to be fixed by the Joint Rules Committee. The price shall be sufficient to cover the cost of printing and binding the manual.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.)
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9760. Whenever a law is signed by the Governor, official notice of the fact shall be forwarded, in writing, to the State Printing Office.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9761. Upon the receipt of the notice, the State Printing Office shall print for the use of the Legislature such number of copies of the law, or joint or concurrent resolution, as is provided for by the rules of the Legislature and the necessary number of sheets to make the number of copies of the Statutes required by law to be printed. One composition of type shall answer the purpose of such printing.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9762. When a new or a revised code is established, it shall be prepared by the Legislative Counsel with all amendments and superseding sections enacted during the session properly inserted, and with proper notes indicating the original text and any intermediate amendments. The code, as enacted, shall not be printed until after thirty days (30) after final adjournment of the Legislature, when it shall be printed by the State Printing Office as prepared by the Legislative Counsel pursuant to this section. The act as so printed shall be included in its proper sequence in the bound volume of the Statutes of the session. This section does not apply to a new or revised code which is enacted as an urgency measure. For the purposes of this section, a code is any act of the Legislature which is entitled a code.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)
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9763. The Department of General Services shall direct the preparation of the statutes of each session of the Legislature after each regular session. The statutes for each special session shall be cumulated and prepared with the statutes for the next succeeding regular session, except that upon the written request of the Legislative Budget Committee the department shall direct the preparation of the statutes of a particular special session after such special session.
(Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 312.)