BILL ANALYSIS Ó SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Senator Noreen Evans, Chair 2011-2012 Regular Session AB 1023 (Wagner) As Introduced Hearing Date: June 7, 2011 Fiscal: No Urgency: No SK:jg 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 Every 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 (more) AB 1023 (Wagner) Page 2 of ? has been or will be deleted without question by the Legislative Counsel's Office. AB 1023 (Wagner) Page 3 of ? 2. "All-purpose" yielding clause avoids chaptering problems Proposed Section 351 on page 680 of the bill provides that any other bill enacted by the Legislature during the 2011 calendar year that takes effect on or before January 1, 2012 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 Floor (Ayes 77, Noes 0) Assembly Judiciary Committee (Ayes 10, Noes 0) **************