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          Date of Hearing:  June 27, 2006

                           ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
                                  Dave Jones, Chair
                   SB 1852 (Judiciary) - As Amended:  June 20, 2006

                                  PROPOSED CONSENT
           
          SENATE VOTE  :  37-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL "MAINTENANCE OF THE CODES"  
          BILL

           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?

                                      SYNOPSIS

          This non-controversial bill makes numerous technical changes in  
          the California codes that are recommended this year by the  
          Legislative Counsel's Office.  The proposed changes are  
          technical and non-controversial and make no substantive changes  
          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

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           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 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  








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          bill.
           
          A condition for inclusion in the annual code maintenance bill is  
          that the change must be non-substantive.  Therefore, any  
          provision that is identified as making a substantive 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.



           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          None on file
           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Drew Liebert / JUD. / (916) 319-2334