California Government Code CHAPTER 5 - Enactment of Statutes and Adoption of Resolutions

• Section 9500.
  As used in this chapter, “clerk” means the engrossing and enrolling clerk or the employee who performs the duties of engrossing and enrolling clerk when...
• Section 9501.
  As used in this chapter, “committee” means the engrossing and enrolling committee of the house ordering the engrossing or enrolling of a bill or other...
• Section 9501.5.
  The enacting clause of every law shall be “The people of the State of California do enact as follows:”.(Added by Stats. 1966, 1st Ex. Sess.,...
• Section 9502.
  All bills and other documents ordered engrossed or enrolled by the Senate or Assembly shall be delivered by the Secretary of the Senate or Chief...
• Section 9503.
  The clerk shall deliver the bills and documents without delay, in the order of their receipt, to the State Printer.(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
• Section 9504.
  The State Printer shall receipt for the bills or documents, and without delay engross or enroll (print) them in the order of their receipt by...
• Section 9505.
  The State Printer shall deliver the engrossed or enrolled copy of the bill or document, with the original thereof, to the clerk from whom he...
• Section 9506.
  All bills and documents that have been printed shall be considered engrossed if no amendments have been made after being printed. The original bill or...
• Section 9507.
  If the enrolled copy of a bill or other document is found to be correct, the committee shall present it to the proper officers for...
• Section 9508.
  Enrolled bills shall be transmitted to the Governor for his approval. Until otherwise provided by the joint rules of the Legislature, enrolled constitutional amendments and...
• Section 9509.
  As soon as an enrolled bill is delivered to the Governor, it shall be endorsed as follows: “This bill was received by the Governor this...
• Section 9510.
  When the Governor approves a bill, he shall affix his name thereto, with the date of signing, and deposit it in the Office of the...
• Section 9510.5.
  There shall be two series of bill chapter numbers for each two-year regular session of the Legislature. Bills deposited with the Secretary of State from...
• Section 9511.
  If a bill presented to the Governor contains an item or several items of appropriation, he may object to one or more items while approving...
• Section 9512.
  When a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature and is returned by the Governor without his signature, and with objections thereto, or if...
• Section 9513.
  The certificate shall be indorsed on or attached to the bill, or indorsed on or attached to the copy of the statement of objections. It...
• Section 9514.
  The bill or statement so authenticated shall then be delivered to the Governor, and by him deposited with the laws in the Office of the...
• Section 9515.
  If on the day the Governor desires to return a bill without his approval and with his objections thereto the house in which it originated...
• Section 9516.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, every bill which has passed both houses of the Legislature, and has not been returned by the Governor...
• Section 9517.
  The Legislature shall finish its actions on the budget required by the Constitution by June 15th of each year.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 980.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018