2005 California Government Code Sections 9500-9517 CHAPTER 5. ENACTMENT OF STATUTES AND ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS

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 (odd-numbered year), Chapter ____."  Bills deposited
with the Secretary of State after December 31 of the odd-numbered
year shall be designated "Statutes of (even-numbered year), Chapter
____."  Concurrent resolutions, joint resolutions, and proposed
constitutional amendments adopted by the Legislature shall be
chaptered as resolution chapters with a different series of numbers
than those assigned to bills but shall otherwise be numbered and
designated in the same manner as bills enacted into law.
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 other portions of the bill.  In such case he shall
append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the
items to which he objects, and the reasons therefor.  If the
Legislature is in session, the Governor shall transmit to the house
in which the bill originated a copy of the statement.  The items so
objected to shall be separately reconsidered in the same manner as
bills which have been disapproved by the Governor.
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 it be a bill containing an item or several items of
appropriation which is returned with objections to one or more items,
and upon reconsideration the bill, item, or items pass both houses
by the constitutional majority, the bill, item, or items shall be
authenticated as having become a law by a certificate.
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 shall be in the following form:  "This bill having
been returned by the Governor with his objections thereto, and, after
reconsideration, having passed both houses by the constitutional
majority, has become a law this ____ day of ____, ____"; or, "The
following items in the within statement (naming them) having, after
reconsideration, passed both houses by the constitutional majority,
have become a law this ____ day of ____, ____."  A certificate signed
by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly is a
sufficient authentication thereof.
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 Secretary of State.  Bills so deposited in the Office
of the Secretary of State shall be given a chapter number in the
manner provided in Section 9510.
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 has adjourned for the day, he may deliver the bill with
his message to the Secretary of the Senate if it originated in the
Senate, Chief Clerk of the Assembly if it originated in the Assembly,
or any member of the house in which it originated.  Such delivery is
as effectual as though returned when the house was meeting.
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 within 12 days, thereby becoming a law, is
authenticated by the Governor causing the fact to be certified
thereon by the Secretary of State in the following form:  "This bill
having remained with the Governor 12 days, and the Legislature being
in session, it has become a law this ____ day of ____, ____."  The
certificate shall be signed by the Secretary of State and deposited
with the laws in his office.
   Upon the receipt of such a bill and certificate, the Secretary of
State shall assign a chapter number to the bill in the manner
provided in Section 9510.
   Every bill which has been passed by the Legislature before
September 1 of the second calendar year of the biennium of the
legislative session, which was in the possession of the Governor on
or after September 1, and which has not been returned by the Governor
on or before September 30 of that year, thereby becoming a law, is
authenticated by the Governor causing the fact to be certified
thereon by the Secretary of State in the following form:  "This bill
having been passed by the Legislature before September 1 of the
second calendar year of the biennium of the legislative session,
having been in the possession of the Governor on or after September 1
of such year, and having remained with the Governor through
September 30 of such year, it has become a law this ______ day of
______."  The certificate shall be signed by the Secretary of State
and deposited with the laws in his office.
   Upon the receipt of such a bill and certificate, the Secretary of
State shall assign a chapter number to the bill in the manner
provided in Section 9510.
9517.  The Legislature shall finish its actions on the budget
required by the Constitution by June 15th of each year.