Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Whenever the Senate or the Assembly undertakes to publish in a separate volume the Constitution of the State of California and related documents, the text of such a volume shall be specified by the Joint Rules Committee.

The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall determine what is a sufficient number of copies to supply the members of both houses and chief officers daily during the session with the Journal of the previous day’s proceedings of each house.

A sufficient number of copies, with proper repaging, as determined by the Secretary and Chief Clerk, shall also be bound at the end of the session of the Legislature as the Journals of the Senate and Assembly.

Each daily Journal and the Journals of the Senate and Assembly shall be printed by the State Printing Office. Each daily Journal shall be printed in book form separately, and the Journals of the Senate and Assembly shall be bound in book form.

One copy of the daily Journal of each house, upon its approval by the house, shall be authenticated as so approved by the chief clerk or secretary of the house.

Upon final adjournment of the Legislature, the authenticated copy of the daily Journal of each house for the entire session shall be properly bound in separate volumes and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State as the official journals of both houses of the Legislature…

The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall during the month of December in each even-numbered year, commence to compile a legislative manual or handbook. The compilation shall be completed as soon as practical after the convening of the session, and the…

The legislative manual shall be uniform in size and style with similar publications of previous sessions. It shall include: (a) A list of State officers. (b) Members and officers of both houses. (c) Lists of committees. (d) The rules of both houses and the joint rules. (e) Other …

The manual shall be distributed as follows: (a) To each Senator and Assemblyman as determined by the Rules Committee of the respective houses. (b) Each elective state officer, one copy. (c) The State Library, five copies. (d) Each free public library in the state, one copy. (e) T…

The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall each retain the number of manuals needed for use in the respective houses and for distribution to the Members of the Senate and Assembly for the succeeding session of the Legislature.

The remainder shall be sold at a price to be fixed by the Joint Rules Committee. The price shall be sufficient to cover the cost of printing and binding the manual.

Whenever a law is signed by the Governor, official notice of the fact shall be forwarded, in writing, to the State Printing Office.

Upon the receipt of the notice, the State Printing Office shall print for the use of the Legislature such number of copies of the law, or joint or concurrent resolution, as is provided for by the rules of the Legislature and the necessary number of sheets to make the number of co…

When a new or a revised code is established, it shall be prepared by the Legislative Counsel with all amendments and superseding sections enacted during the session properly inserted, and with proper notes indicating the original text and any intermediate amendments. The code, as…

The Department of General Services shall direct the preparation of the statutes of each session of the Legislature after each regular session. The statutes for each special session shall be cumulated and prepared with the statutes for the next succeeding regular session, except t…

The statutes of each session shall be prepared for printing and publication by the Legislative Counsel, the State Librarian, or such other state agency authorized or required by law to render the service when directed or requested, as the Department of General Services directs or…

Preparation of the statutes shall include the making of an index and statutory record, and the delivery thereof to the State Printing Office as soon as practicable after final adjournment of the Legislature. The date of approval or adoption of each act and its effective date shal…

At the beginning of each volume of the statutes there shall be printed: (a) The Constitution of the state. (b) The name and place of residence of: (1) The Governor. (2) The Lieutenant Governor. (3) The other executive officers of the state. (4) The Senators and Members of the Ass…

The Office of State Printing shall print the number of copies of the statutes of each session prepared at the direction of the Department of General Services that the Joint Rules Committee determines is necessary. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9768 or any other provis…

The statutes shall be bound in law buckram binding.

The Department of General Services shall maintain a bill-filing room for the Senate and Assembly, and file all bills, resolutions, journals and other documents ordered by the Senate or Assembly. It shall also place all such bills, resolutions, journals and other documents in bind…

The laws, resolutions and journals of the Legislature shall be distributed by the Department of General Services as follows: (a) To the Library of Congress, two copies. (b) To the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, each Member of the Legislature, the Secretary of the Senate, the Chie…

All other copies of the laws, resolutions and journals shall be sold by the Department of General Services at such price as it may fix.

(a) (1) Any report required or requested by law, or identified in the Legislative Analyst’s Supplemental Report of the Budget Act, to be submitted by a state or local agency to a committee of the Legislature or the Members of either house of the Legislature generally, shall inste…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Performance and Results Act of 1993.

The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The Legislature has an interest in improving the delivery of governmental services through the use of strategic planning and performance measurement. (b) Strategic plans and budget contracts will provide managerial accountabil…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Pension Restructuring Bond Act of 2004.

It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to provide for an efficient, equitable, and economical means of satisfying certain pension obligations of the state. Bonds shall be issued pursuant to this chapter only when the Director of Finance determines that the…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the state’s obligation to pay its pension obligations to the Public Employees’ Retirement System in the amounts established by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, cannot be deferred by the state; t…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) “Ancillary obligation” means the obligation of the state under any credit enhancement or liquidity agreement, including any of the following: (1) An obligation in t…

The committee is authorized and empowered, for and in the name and on behalf of the state, to do all of the following: (a) Upon the request of the Director of Finance, and following receipt of the determination of the Director of Finance pursuant to Section 16941, issue taxable o…

Every issue of bonds, and any ancillary obligation entered into with respect to those bonds, shall be a debt and liability of the state payable from the General Fund of the state or, in the case of bond anticipation notes, payable from the proceeds of bonds to be issued pursuant …

(a) The cumulative amount of outstanding bonds issued pursuant to this chapter may not exceed the lesser of (1) the sum of two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000); or (2) the amount which, when added to all anticipated interest and related costs of the bonds, does not exceed the ant…

(a) The resolution, certificate, or other instrument of the committee authorizing the issuance of the bonds may provide, or the committee may delegate to the Treasurer, as agent for sale of the bonds, responsibility to determine, any or all of the following for the bonds: (1) The…

The proceeds of the bonds shall be applied to the funding or refunding of pension obligations, or refunding of bonds previously issued under this chapter, together with all costs of issuing the bonds and refunding pension obligations or prior bonds and the costs of any ancillary …

When proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are used to pay the state’s pension obligations to the retirement system for members whose compensation is paid from a fund other than the General Fund, the Controller shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, transf…

When proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are used to pay the state’s pension obligations to the retirement system for members whose compensation is paid from the General Fund, the Controller shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, abate quarterly to the G…

In the discretion of the committee, any bonds issued under this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement, indenture, or resolution between the state and any trustee, which may be the Treasurer or any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company chartered under th…

The committee may provide for the issuance of bonds any portion of which is to be used for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds issued to fund or refund pension obligations, including the payment of the principal thereof and interest and redemption premiums, if any. The pro…

The net proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Pension Obligation Bond Fund established pursuant to Section 16929.

This chapter, being necessary for the health, welfare, and safety of the state and its residents, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes.

This chapter shall be deemed to provide a complete and alternative authorization to take the actions necessary to implement this chapter, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to the powers conferred by other laws. The issuance of the bonds and their terms, the app…

Section 10295 of the Public Contract Code and Article 4 (commencing with Section 10335) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code do not apply to agreements entered into by the committee, or any individual to whom the committee delegates contracting authori…

Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are a legal investment for any state special fund or trust fund, notwithstanding any provision of law limiting the investments that may be made by the fund. The bonds shall be legal investments in which all public officers and public bodies o…

The committee may bring an action to determine the validity of any bonds to be issued, or any ancillary obligations and other contracts to be entered into, under this chapter pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.…

Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal year, from the General Fund for the purposes of this chapter, an amount, subject to the limitations of this chapter, that equals the sum annually that is necessary to pay all obliga…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, separate rates of contributions for male and female members shall not be established or maintained, nor shall different benefit factors be established for male and female members in the same category. However, this section shall n…

For purposes of this chapter, the age of entry into this system as a member in any membership category for a person who enters on or after October 1, 1957, and within 90 days after last rendering service as a member of a county retirement system and who retains his or her members…

Whenever a member’s contribution rate is temporarily reduced by statute, a memorandum of understanding, or the Director of Human Resources, those reductions shall be limited to the payment of member contributions during the reduction period and do not apply to the purchase of ser…

The normal rate of contribution for a local safety member subject to Section 21368 who after December 1, 1968, enters that membership or enters employment more than one year following termination of previous employment in which he or she was a local safety member shall be the rat…