BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 731 Page 1 CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS AB 731 (Gallagher) As Amended July 2, 2015 Majority vote -------------------------------------------------------------------- |ASSEMBLY: | 79-0 | (April 13, |SENATE: |38-0 | (August 20, | | | |2015) | | |2015) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Committee Reference: JUD. 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. The Senate amendments add further non-substantive changes to the codes as recommended by Legislative Counsel. EXISTING LAW: Unaffected FISCAL EFFECT: None AB 731 Page 2 COMMENTS: Each year, the 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 removed from this bill. Analysis Prepared by: Alison Merrilees / JUD. / (916) 319-2334 FN: 0001268