BILL ANALYSIS Ó SB 1171 Page 1 Date of Hearing: June 26, 2012 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY Mike Feuer, Chair SB 1171 (Harman) - As Amended: May 21, 2012 PROPOSED CONSENT SENATE VOTE : 37-0 SUBJECT : MAINTENANCE OF THE CODES KEY ISSUE : SHOULD VARIOUS NON-SUBSTANTIVE, TECHNICAL CHANGES BE MADE VIA THE "MAINTENANCE OF THE CODES" BILL SPONSORED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S OFFICE IN THIS ANNUAL TECHNICAL CLEAN-UP BILL? FISCAL EFFECT : As currently in print this bill is keyed non-fiscal. SYNOPSIS This non-controversial bill makes 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. SUMMARY : Makes non-substantive changes to the codes by recommendation of the Legislative Counsel's office. Specifically, this bill makes various grammatical and other technical changes suggested by the Office of Legislative Counsel in order to correct non-substantive errors that exist in the original bill text. EXISTING LAW : Unaffected COMMENTS : 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. SB 1171 Page 2 REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION : Support None on file Opposition None on file Analysis Prepared by : Drew Liebert / JUD. / (916) 319-2334