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CHAPTER 7. Legislative Printing and Publications

Chapter 7 added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.

§§ 9700–9795 · 31 sections

  1. ARTICLE 1. General §§ 9700–9708 · 8 sections
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
    • § 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,…
    • § 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…
    • § 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,…
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Daily Journals §§ 9720–9724 · 5 sections
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
    • § 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.
    • § 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…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Legislative Manual §§ 9740–9744 · 5 sections
    • § 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…
    • § 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)…
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Preparation and Printing of Statutes §§ 9760–9768 · 9 sections
    • § 9760 Whenever a law is signed by the Governor, official notice of the fact shall be forwarded, in writing, to the State Printing Office.
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
    • § 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…
    • § 9764 The statutes of each session shall be prepared for printing and publication by the Legislative Counsel, the State Librarian, or such other state agency…
    • § 9765 Preparation of the statutes shall include the making of an index and statutory record, and the delivery thereof to the State Printing Office as soon as…
    • § 9766 At the beginning of each volume of the statutes there shall be printed: (a) The Constitution of the state. (b) The name and place of residence of: (1) The…
    • § 9767 The Office of State Printing shall print the number of copies of the statutes of each session prepared at the direction of the Department of General Services…
    • § 9768 The statutes shall be bound in law buckram binding.
  5. ARTICLE 5. Distribution of Statutes and Legislative Publications §§ 9790–9792 · 3 sections
    • § 9790 The Department of General Services shall maintain a bill-filing room for the Senate and Assembly, and file all bills, resolutions, journals and other documents…
    • § 9791 The laws, resolutions and journals of the Legislature shall be distributed by the Department of General Services as follows: (a) To the Library of Congress,…
    • § 9792 All other copies of the laws, resolutions and journals shall be sold by the Department of General Services at such price as it may fix.
  6. ARTICLE 6. Reports to the Legislature § 9795 · 1 section
    • § 9795 (a) (1) Any report required or requested by law, or identified in the Legislative Analyst’s Supplemental Report of the Budget Act, to be submitted by a state…