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          Bill No:  SB 1852
          Author:   Senate Judiciary Committee
          Amended:  As introduced
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE  :  5-0, 5/9/06
          AYES:  Dunn, Morrow, Ackerman, Escutia, Kuehl


           SUBJECT  :    Maintenance of the codes

           SOURCE  :     Office of Legislative Counsel


           DIGEST  :    This 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.

           ANALYSIS  :    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. 

          A condition for inclusion in the annual code maintenance  
          bill is that the change must be nonsubstantive.  Therefore,  
          any provision that is identified as making a substantive  
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          law change will be deleted without question by the  
          Legislative Counsel's Office.

          Proposed Section 735 on page 882 of the bill provides that  
          any other bill enacted by the Legislature during the 2006  
          calendar year 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.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  No    
          Local:  No

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  5/11/06)

          Office of Legislative Counsel (source) 


          RJG:nl  5/15/06   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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