SEC. 206.

(Form.)

REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE.

The following reports of standing committees were received and read:

ON JUDICIARY.1

SENATE CHAMBER. SACRAMENTO, March 31, 1915. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred Senate Bill No. -An Act, etc.; Also Senate2 Bill No.‒‒‒‒‒

Also Senate2 Bill No.-.

Also: Assembly Bill No.--.

-An Act, etc.;

-An Act, etc.;

-An Act, etc.;

Have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back and recommend that they do pass.

MINORITY REPORT.

Chairman.

SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, March 31, 1915. MR. PRESIDENT: A minority of your Committee on Judiciary to which was referred Senate2 Bill No. An Act-has had the same under consideration, and respectfully reports the same back and recommends that it do not pass.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

1Or other committee.

2Or Assembly.

3Or Senate.

Also:

ON (Name of Committee)

Mr. President1:

Your Committee on

--

Bill No.

to whom was referred an Act., etc., respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration and recommend that the amendments prepared by the committee and submitted herewith, be adopted and the bill, as amended, do pass.

reading.

Bill No.

Chairman.

ordered on file for second

(Form used in amending bills, either by committee or from floor of Senate or Assembly.)

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO____

AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE.

BILL NO.______

Amend the title of the printed bill, by striking out all of lines-----and of the title and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

Strike out all of the printed bill from and including line. to and including line

On page

AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE.

of the printed bill, strike out all of section

N. B.-Three copies of all sets of amendments should be sent to the desk at the time the committee makes its report or when amendments are submitted for adoption.

SEC. 207.

(Form.)

REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE.

The following report of Special Committee was received and read:

ON (Name of Committee)

DUTIES OF JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.

The rules of each House may prescribe the duties of each committee thereof. In addition to the duties that may thus be prescribed, it shall be the duty of the Judiciary Committee of each House, whenever a bill drawn in the form of a general law is recommended for passage, either as introduced, or as amended by such committee, if it relates to and should form part of any subject contained in either one or more of the codes of this State, to accompany such recommendation with a substitute, or substitutes therefor, containing a suitable title and the provisions of such bill in codified form, and numbered so as to indicate in what code, and what part thereof, it is proposed to insert the same in case of enactment. (Political Code, sec. 249.)

*

SEC. 209.

COMMITTEES OTHER THAN JUDICIARY REPORTING FAVORABLY ON BILL, EFFECT.

When any standing committee of the Senate or Assembly, other than the Judiciary Committee thereof, favorably report any bill referred thereto, if such bill is in the form of a general law, the same shall be placed on file, retain its place thereon, and be referred to the Judiciary Committee, whereupon such committee must, if the bill relates to and should form part of any subject contained in either one or more of the codes of this State, codify the same, and within two days after such reference, unless additional time is granted, report a substitute or substitutes therefor in the manner provided in the preceding section. (Political Code, sec. 250.)*

**For explanation of the status of these two sections, see Preface.

SEC. 210.

COMMITTEE ON REVISION AND PRINTING.

Unless otherwise ordered by the House in which the bill was introduced, all bills before being printed shall be immediately sent to the Committee on Revision and Printing. The committee, by and with the written assent of the author filed with it, shall have authority to correct any clerical error such as in orthography, adding or correcting the enacting clause, mistakes in numbering sections and references thereto, errors in grammar phraseology, or in the form of the bill; provided, that no bill which bears the stamp of the legislative counsel bureau showing that before introduction it has been examined as to form, shall be sent to the Committee on Revision and Printing. (Joint Rule No. 30.)

SEC. 211.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE ON REVISION.

The Committee on Revision and Printing shall return to the Secretary of the Senate or Clerk of the Assembly all bills in the order in which they were sent to it, but shall not retain any bill for longer than three legislative days, unless otherwise ordered. (Joint Rule No. 32.)

SEC. 212.

COMMITTEE ON CONTESTED ELECTIONS.

It shall be the duty of the Committee on Contested Elections to examine and report upon the certificates of election or other credentials of such members returned to serve in this House, as may have their seats contested, and to take into their consideration all such petitions and other matters touching elections and returns as shall or may be presented or come into question, and be referred to them by the House, or the Speaker thereof. (Assembly Rule No. 29.)

SEC. 213.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.

It shall be the duty of the Committee on Ways and Means to take into consideration all reports of the State officers and State boards or State commissions, and all propositions relative to the revenue of the State, as may be referred to them by the Assembly; to inquire into the state of the revenue and expenditures of the State, and report from time to time their opinion thereon. All bills for the appropriation of money, which were not at first referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. shall be reported to the House by the committees having them under consideration, and shall thereupon, without motion, be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means; and said committee shall consider and report thereon the amount of appropriation required, but such bill shall retain its place on file pending its consideration by said Committee on Ways and Means. The Committee on Ways and Means shall, from time. to time, at least once in two weeks, report to the House the exact condition of legislation involving appropriations, and the aggregate amount of all the proposed appropriations pending. (Assembly Rule No. 30.)

N. B. For additional duties of Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment, see also section, 484.

SEC. 214.

ENROLLED BILLS TO RECEIVE SIGNATURES OF PROPER OFFICERS.

After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled and carefully compared by the Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk and Engrossing and Enrolling Committee of the Assembly, or of the Senate, as the bill may have originated, and shall first receive the signatures of the presiding officer and Clerk or Secretary of the House in which it emanated, before it shall be presented to the Governor of the State. (Joint Rule No. 21.)

SEC. 215.

ENROLLING COMMITTEE TO COMPARE.

When the bills are enrolled they shall be re-examined by the Engrossing and Enrolling Committee of the House in which they originated, who shall compare the enrollment with the engrossed bill as passed in the two Houses, and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bill, make their report forthwith to the House in which the bill originated, stating by whom such bill was examined. (Joint Rule No. 22.)

SEC. 216.

PRESIDENT AND SPEAKER TO SIGN BILLS.

After the examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective houses, first by the Speaker of the Assembly, then by the President of the Senate. (Joint Rule No. 23.)

SEC. 217.

ENROLLING COMMITTEE TO PRESENT BILLS TO GOVERNOR. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each House, it shall be presented by the Engrossing and Enrolling Committee of the House in which it originated to the Governor of the State for his approval (it being first endorsed on the back of the bill by the Secretary or Clerk, as the case may be, certifying in which House the bill originated). The said committee shall report the day of presentation to the Governor, which time shall be carefully entered on the journal of the House in which the bill originated. (Joint Rule No. 24.)

SEC. 218.

PROVISION FOR ENGROSSMENT.

It shall be the duty of the Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment to compare all bills, constitutional amendments, and concurrent and joint resolutions, ordered or considered engrossed by this House with the engrossed copies thereof; and, before they pass out of the possession of this House, see that the engrossed bill is a true copy of the original, with such amendments as inay have been made thereto; and said committee shall see that all engrossed bills are reported back in the order in which they were ordered engrossed. (Assembly Rule No. 31.)

SEC. 219.

ORDER OF ENGROSSING AND ENROLLING BILLS.

All bills ordered engrossed shall be delivered by the Secretary of the Senate to the Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment or to the clerk of that committee and a receipt in writing taken therefor, and all said bills shall be engrossed in the order of their receipt by that committee or its clerk. All Senate bills shall, after their final passage by, and receipt from the Assembly, be delivered by the Secretary of the Senate in the order of their receipt from the Assembly, to the Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment or its clerk and a receipt in writing taken therefor; and said bills shall be enrolled in the order of their receipt from the Secretary of the Senate. (Senate Rule No. 29.)

SEC. 220.

ENGROSSED BILLS TO BE EXAMINED AND REPORTED.

All bills, amendments, and resolutions, after being engrossed, in pursuance of the order of the Senate, shall be carefully examined and reported back by the Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment; the engrossed copy to be transmitted to the Assembly with proper endorsements, and the original retained by the Senate. (Senate Rule No. 30.)

SEC. 221.

ORDER OF ENGROSSING AND ENROLLING BILLS.

The Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk shall engross and enroll the bills, constitutional amendments, and joint and concurrent resolutions which shall come to his hands for such purposes, in compliance with the provisions of Section 539 of the Political Code, and in the order of time in which the same shall be acted upon by the House. Said Clerk shall be responsible for every violation of this rule by his assistants or deputies; no clerk of this House, or his deputy or assistant, shall demand or receive from any person any compensation other than that provided by law for any services performed by him in regard to bills or preparation of bills before this House. All Assembly bills, constitutional amendments and joint and concurrent resolutions shall be engrossed before final action is taken on them in the Assembly. (Assembly Rule No. 17.)