BILL ANALYSIS
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CONSENT
Bill No: SB 1498
Author: Senate Judiciary Committee
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE : 5-0, 3/25/08
AYES: Corbett, Harman, Ackerman, Kuehl, Steinberg
SUBJECT : Maintenance of the codes: annual cleanup bill
SOURCE : Office of the Legislative Counsel
DIGEST : This bill makes numerous technical changes in
the California codes that have been recommended by the
Office of the Legislative Counsel. The proposed changes
would not make any substantive change in the law.
ANALYSIS : 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 Office of the Legislative Counsel.
Proposed Section 261 on page 443 of this 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
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occur and escape the notice of staff.
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 bill, 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.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 3/27/08)
Office of the Legislative Counsel (source)
RJG:mw 3/27/08 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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