Article 4. Preparation And Printing Of Statutes of California Government Code >> Division 2. >> Title 2. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 7. >> Article 4.

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 copies of the Statutes required by law to be printed. One composition of type shall answer the purpose of such printing.

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 enacted, shall not be printed until after thirty days (30) after final adjournment of the Legislature, when it shall be printed by the State Printing Office as prepared by the Legislative Counsel pursuant to this section. The act as so printed shall be included in its proper sequence in the bound volume of the Statutes of the session. This section does not apply to a new or revised code which is enacted as an urgency measure. For the purposes of this section, a code is any act of the Legislature which is entitled a code.

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 that upon the written request of the Legislative Budget Committee the department shall direct the preparation of the statutes of a particular special session after such special session.

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 requests in writing.

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 shall be prefixed to its text. The cost of preparation shall be paid from the same source as the cost of printing and publishing the statutes is paid.

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 Assembly.
  (5) The presiding officers of the Senate and Assembly.
  (c) The certificate of the Secretary of State showing what acts, or sections or parts of acts of the Legislature are delayed from going into effect by a referendum petition properly certified and filed in his office.
  (d) The certificate of the Secretary of State showing the result of all elections upon any initiative or referendum measures submitted to the electors of the state within the previous year.
  (e) The text of all such initiative measures adopted by the electors.

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 provision of law, printed copies of the statutes shall only be bound in the number determined by the Department of General Services to be necessary to meet the demand therefor.

The statutes shall be bound in law buckram binding.