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SEC. 222.

(Form.)

REPORT OF COMMITTEE.

ON ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT.

CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, March 30, 1915.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment has examined -An Act, etc.

Also:

Also:

Bill No.

Bill No.
Bill No.

-An Act, etc.
-An Act, etc.

And reports that the same have been correctly engrossed.1

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

1Or re-engrossed or re-re-engrossed, etc. Also:

Chairman.

CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, March 19, 1915.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment have examined
Bill No.
-An Act, etc., and report that the same has been

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CHAPTER V.

THE GENERAL FILE.

CHAPTER CONTENTS.

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

Sec. 223. Reading of bills. (Senate rule; Assembly rule.)

Sec. 224. Order of making file. (Assembly rule; Senate rule.)

Sec. 225. The general file-Its hours-Special order of bills on file. (Senate

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Sec. 229. Taking up bills out of order. (Assembly rule.)

Sec. 230. Reference of appropriation bills before second reading. (Senate rule.) Sec. 231. Final question on second reading of bill-No amendment on third reading, but may commit. (Senate rule.)

Sec. 232. Reprinting of amended bills. (Senate rule.)

Sec. 233. The urgency section. (Constitution.)

Sec. 234. Passage of urgency section. (Joint rule.)

Sec. 235. Passage of bills before constitutional recess. (Joint rule.)

Sec. 236. Second reading of bills. (Form.)

Sec. 237. Second reading of bills

Sec. 238. Third reading of bills.

(out of order). (Form.)
(Form.)

Sec. 239. Consideration of daily file-Third reading of Senate bills.
Sec. 240. Call of the Senate. (On third reading of a bill.)
Sec. 241. Case of urgency. (Appropriation bill.)

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(Joint rule.)

PART II. AFTER PASSAGE IN THE HOUSE OF ORIGIN.
Sec. 250. Notices to be in writing under proper signature. (Joint rule.)
Sec. 251. Secretary, Clerk, etc., to carry messages. (Joint rule.)
Sec. 252. Each house to transmit papers.
Sec. 253. Messages must be announced by
Sec. 254. Messengers may be introduced.
Sec. 255. Messages from the other house.
Sec. 256. Bills read and referred to committee. (Joint rule.)

the Sergeant-at-arms. (Joint rules.)
(Senate rule; Assembly rule.)
(Senate rule; Assembly rule.)

Sec. 257. After a bill has been passed by the Senate or Assembly. (Joint rule.) Sec. 258. Disposition of Assembly bills. (Senate rule.)

Sec. 259. Disposition of Senate bills. (Assembly rule.)

Sec. 260. Bill or resolution in one house, rejected in the other, requires notice.

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Sec. 262. Messages from the Assembly (out of order). (Form.)

Sec. 263. Withdrawal of companion bill. (Form.)

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

N. B. For Constitutional requirements regarding the reading of bills on three several days see section 331.

N. B.-Reconsideration of bills, etc., is treated in sections 309 and 310.

SEC. 223.

READING OF BILLS.

Every bill shall be read on three several days previous to its passage (unless in case of urgency, two thirds of the membership of the house in which it is being considered, shall by vote of the ayes and noes dispense with this provision) and the last reading shall be at length. The presiding officer shall give notice, at each of the second and third readings, which reading it is, and no bill shall be read at either reading (if a member object) until the house in which it is being considered shall so determine by vote. (Senate Rule No. 28. Assembly Rule No. 7.)

SEC. 224.

ORDER OF MAKING FILE.

Upon the introduction of bills they shall be read the first time, and referred to committees. When reported back they shall be placed upon the General File, to be kept by the Clerk, as follows: All bills when reported to the House by the committees shall be placed at the foot of the second-reading file, in the order in which the reports are made, and after the second reading they shall be placed at the foot of the third-reading file, in the order of reading, and precedence shall be given in the consideration of bills in the following order: Second-reading file and third-reading file, unless otherwise ordered by unanimous consent or by a two-thirds vote of the House. The bills upon third reading shall be considered in the order in which they appear upon the file, unless otherwise ordered by unanimous consent or by vote of majority of the members present such vote to be taken by roll call: provided, that if a bill is passed on file for any reason, other than the absence of the author by leave of the Assembly, note of the fact shall be made in the General File, and when passed on file a second time, the bill shall be ordered to the foot of the file, and notice of the fact of the bill having been passed on file prior to the order placing it at the foot of the file, shall be omitted from the General File. The Clerk shall post, in a conspicuous place in the Chamber, a daily statement of the bills on the General File, setting forth the order in which they were filed, and specifying the alterations arising from the disposal of business each day. (Assembly Rule No. 14.) All bills, after the second reading (if the same be not committed, then upon being reported), shall be placed upon the general file and shall be taken up for consideration and passage in the order of their being placed on file. (Senate Rule No. 41.)

When bills have been passed on file for the second time they must be placed at the foot of the file in their regular order, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate. (Senate Rule No. 40.)

SEC. 225.

THE GENERAL FILE: ITS HOURS-SPECIAL ORDER OF BILLS ON FILE.

The General File shall be the special order for each day between such hours as the Senate may determine, unless sooner disposed of; but no bill shall lose its place upon the file by expiration of the time or by adjournment of the Senate while it is under consideration. (Senate Rule No. 39.)

SEC. 226.

SPECIAL FILE.

On the second day after the close of the recess provided for in section 2, article IV, of the Constitution, the Senate and Assembly shall each adopt and provide a special file upon which shall be placed: In the Senate, only Assembly bills that have passed the Assembly; and in the Assembly, only Senate bills that have passed the Senate. Such special file shall be taken up at two o'clock p.m. of each day, and be considered at least one hour and a half after being so taken up. rule shall not be suspended in either house except by a three-fourths vote of such house. (Joint Rule No. 10.)

This

SEC. 227.

ORDER OF MAKING SPECIAL FILE.

The Clerk shall, from time to time, make up a file, to be known as the Special File, on which he shall place bills relating to appropriations for the support of the state government and state institutions, revenue, election laws and constitutional amendments, in the order named, and in the order in which the same may be reported to the Assembly, and he shall place no other bills thereon, nor shall any bill on the General File be substituted for any bill therecn. (Assembly Rule No. 15.)

SEC. 228.

SPECIAL ORDERS.

Any subject may, by vote of a majority of those voting, be made a special order, and when the time fixed for its consideration arrives, the presiding officer shall lay it before the Senate. (Senate Rule No. 56.)

SEC. 229.

TAKING UP BILLS OUT OF ORDER.

When a member shall ask leave to have a bill taken up out of its regular order, he shall in making the motion give the number and title of the bill and its position on the file. (Assembly Rule No. 16.)

SEC. 230.

REFERENCE OF APPROPRIATION BILLS BEFORE SECOND READING.

All bills appropriating money from any fund shall be referred to the Committee on Finance (in the Senate, or Ways and Means in the Assembly) before being read a second time. (Senate Rule No. 32. Assembly Rule No. 30.)

SEC. 231.

FINAL QUESTION ON SECOND READING OF BILL-NO AMENDMENT ON THIRD READING, BUT MAY COMMIT.

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The final question on the second reading of every bill originating in the Senate shall be: Shall the bill be engrossed?" And no amendment shall be received for discussion at the third reading of any bill; but it shall at all times be in order, before the final passage of such bill, to move its commitment under special instructions to amend. Rule No. 55.)

(Senate

SEC. 232.

REPRINTING OF AMENDED BILLS.

All bills amended on second or third reading shall immediately be reprinted. (Senate Rule No. 28.)

SEC. 233.

THE URGENCY SECTION.

No act passed by the Legislature shall go into effect until ninety days after the final adjournment of the Legislature which passed such act, except acts calling elections, acts providing for tax levies or appropriations for the usual current expenses of the State, and urgency measures necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, passed by a two-thirds vote of all of the members elected to each house. Whenever it is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety that a law shall go into immediate effect, a statement of the facts constituting such necessity shall be set forth in one section of the act, which section shall be passed only upon a yea and nay vote, upon a separate roll-call thereon; provided, however, that no measure creating or abolishing any office or changing the salary, term or duties of any officer, or granting any franchise or special privilege, or creating any vested right or interest, shall be construed to be an urgency measure. Any law so passed by the Legislature and declared to be an urgency measure shall go into immediate effect. (Constitution, art. IV, sec. 1, par. 4.)

SEC. 234.

PASSAGE OF URGENCY SECTION.

Upon the third reading of an Act which is an urgency measure within the meaning of section 1 of article IV of the State Constitution, the presiding officer shall direct that the section of said Act setting forth the facts constituting the necessity for such urgency (which shall be known as the urgency section) be then read and put to vote. The question shall be thus stated: "Shall this section setting forth the urgency features of this bill be passed?" If upon such final vote two-thirds of all the members elected to the house in which the vote is being taken shall not vote in the affirmative, no further action shall be taken on the bill; but, in case an identical bill without such an emergency clause be again introduced into such house, such bill shall be placed on file without reference to any committee. (Joint Rule No. 28.)

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