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All printing ordered by the Legislature or the Senate or Assembly, and all printing to be charged to legislative printing shall be governed by the joint rules and by the rules of the respective houses insofar as applicable. After final adjournment, the rules in effect at the time of adjournment shall continue to govern until the adoption of rules at the subsequent session.

The receipt of the Secretary of the Senate or Chief Clerk of the Assembly is a sufficient voucher for printing for any work done for the house of which the person issuing the receipt is an officer.

The Secretary of the Senate, in the case of Members and Members-elect of the Senate, and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, in the case of Members and Members-elect of the Assembly, shall, prior to the convening of any session of the Legislature, order the printing of all legislative bills and constitutional amendments which have been approved for printing by the Committee on Rules of the Senate, upon the request of Members and Members-elect of the Senate, or the Committee on Rules of the Assembly, upon the request of Members and Members-elect of the Assembly; provided, that such approval shall not be required as to requests for the printing of bills where such requests are made after the general election by members or members-elect who certify in writing that they intend to introduce such bills at the convening of the session. They shall be printed by the State Printing Office, and the cost paid out of the appropriation for legislative printing.

The State Printing Office shall print the laws, including initiative measures adopted by the people, public documents ordered to be printed by the Legislature, the Journals of the Senate and Assembly, and bills, resolutions, and other printing ordered by the Senate or Assembly.

Proceeds from sales of all documents, the cost of publication of which is or has been paid from any appropriation for legislative printing, shall be credited to the General Fund.

The general officers of the Assembly whose names and titles shall appear on the frontpiece of all publications sponsored in whole or in part by the Assembly, are:
  (a) The Speaker
  (b) The Speaker pro Tempore
  (c) The Majority Floor Leader
  (d) The Minority Floor Leader
  (e) The Chief Clerk.

The Legislative Printing Fund in the State Treasury is abolished. The Controller, on the effective date of this section, shall transfer the balance in that fund to the General Fund. Any reference in state law to the Legislative Printing Fund shall be construed to refer to the General Fund.

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.