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                             SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
                           Senator Ellen M. Corbett, Chair
                              2009-2010 Regular Session


          AB 1164                                                     
          Assemblymember Tran                                         
          As Amended June 1, 2009
          Hearing Date: June 9, 2009                                  
          Various Codes                                               
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                                        SUBJECT
                                           
                              Maintenance of the Codes

                                      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  
          these wholesale corrections.  In order to be included in the  
          measure, the change must be technical only and may not affect or  
          enact substantive law.  Any proposed change that is identified  
          as having a substantive change is automatically deleted from the  
          bill. 

                                CHANGES TO EXISTING LAW
           
          None
                                        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  
          has been or will be deleted without question by the Legislative  
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          Counsel's Office.

          2.  "All-purpose" yielding clause avoids chaptering problems
                     
          Proposed Section 223 on page 433 of the bill provides that any  
          other bill enacted by the Legislature during the 2009 calendar  
          year that takes effect on or before January 1, 2010 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.


           Support  : None Known 

           Opposition  : None Known

                                        HISTORY
           
           Source  : Office of Legislative Counsel 

           Related Pending Legislation  :  None Known

           Prior Legislation  : Annual Maintenance of the Code bills

           Prior Vote  :

          Assembly Judiciary Committee (Ayes 10, Noes 0)
          Assembly Floor (Ayes 75, Noes 0)

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