9500-9517
GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 9500-9517
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 no employee is so designated by name.
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 document or the committee of such house
which performs the duties of engrossing and enrolling committee when
no committee is so designated by name.
9501.5. The enacting clause of every law shall be "The people of
the State of California do enact as follows:".
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 Clerk of the Assembly, as the case may be, to the
clerk of the house ordering the engrossment or enrollment.
9503. The clerk shall deliver the bills and documents without
delay, in the order of their receipt, to the State Printer.
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 him. So soon as printed, at least one enrolled copy,
with proper blanks for the signatures of the officers whose duty it
is to sign enrolled bills and documents, shall be printed on bond
paper.
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 received the original. The clerk shall carefully
compare the engrossed or enrolled copy with the original. If
correctly engrossed or enrolled, he shall report it back with the
original to the committee.
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 document shall be delivered to the
clerk of the house where it originated. He shall compare the original
with the printed bill or document, and forthwith deliver it to the
committee for return to the house in the same manner as engrossed
bills.
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
their signatures. When the officers sign their names thereon, as
required by law, it is enrolled.
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 enrolled joint
and concurrent resolutions shall be transmitted to the Governor and
then filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
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 ____ day of ____, 20__." The endorsement shall be signed by the
private secretary of the Governor or by any other person designated
by the Governor whose designation has been reported to the Speaker of
the Assembly and the President pro Tempore of the Senate.
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 Secretary of State, where it becomes the official record. Upon
the receipt of any such bill, the Secretary of State shall give it a
number, to be known as the chapter number. He shall number each bill
in the order in which it is received by him, and the order of
numbering shall be presumed to be the order in which the bills were
approved by the Governor.
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 the beginning of the two-year session
through December 31 of the odd-numbered year shall be designated
"Statutes of