BILL ANALYSIS
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Senator Ellen M. Corbett, Chair
2007-2008 Regular Session
SB 1498 S
Senate Committee on Judiciary B
As Introduced
Hearing Date: March 25, 2008 1
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SUBJECT
Maintenance of the Codes: Annual cleanup bill
DESCRIPTION
This bill would make numerous technical changes in the
California codes that have been recommended by the
Legislative Counsel's Office. The proposed changes would
not make any substantive change in the law.
BACKGROUND
Each year, Legislative Counsel's Office identifies
grammatical errors and other errors of a technical nature
that have been inadvertently enacted into statutory law.
The annual "Maintenance of the Codes" bill is the vehicle
for implementing the wholesale corrections. For inclusion
into the measure, the change must be technical only and may
not affect or enact substantive law. Any proposed change
which is identified as having a substantive change is
automatically excised from the bill.
Compared with last year's code maintenance bill, AB 299
(Tran), which consisted of 264 sections and 543 pages, this
year's code maintenance bill consists of 261 sections and
only 443 pages.
CHANGES TO EXISTING LAW
None
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SB 1498 (Senate Comm. On Judiciary)
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COMMENT
1. Commitment to delete any substantive provision
A condition for inclusion in the annual code maintenance
bill is that the change must be nonsubstantive.
Consequently, any provision that is identified as making
a substantive law change will be deleted without question
by the Legislative Counsel's Office.
2. "All-purpose" yielding clause avoids chaptering problems
Proposed Section 261 on page 443 of the bill provides
that any other bill enacted by the Legislature during the
2008 calendar year that takes effect on or before January
1, 2009 and that amends, adds, repeals, or otherwise
affects any section affected by this bill, shall prevail
over the provisions of this bill. This "all-purpose"
yielding clause avoids any chaptering problems that might
otherwise occur and escape the notice of inattentive
staff.
Support: None Known
Opposition: None Known
HISTORY
Source: Office of Legislative Counsel
Related Pending Legislation: None Known
Prior Legislation: None Known
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