2016 Delaware Code
Title 29 - State Government
CHAPTER 9. LEGISLATIVE BILLS, LAWS, JOURNALS AND COMMITTEES
§ 905. Legislative journal; compiling; printing; content; disposition of originals.

(a) The legislative journals shall be published following each general election for the 2-year period immediately preceding such election and the pages shall be 6 inches by 9 inches.

(b) The full title of any bill, joint resolution or concurrent resolution shall be printed not more than 3 times in either journal, once when introduced or presented in either House, once when voted upon in either House and once in the index. In the event, however, that a substitute bill should change the wording of the title of any bill, then the full title of the substitute bill shall be printed 3 times only in the same manner as an original bill. The full title of a resolution not hereinbefore mentioned shall be printed in its respective journal only twice, once when introduced and once in the index.

All bills and resolutions shall elsewhere be designated by initial letters and number only.

(c) The journal text of the House of Representatives shall be prepared by the Clerk of the House and the journal text of the Senate shall be prepared by the Secretary of the Senate. The index for the house journal shall be prepared by the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives and the index for the senate journal shall be prepared by the Secretary of the Senate.

(d) [Repealed.]

(e) Committee action on bills and resolutions shall show the title to the bill or resolution by initial and number only and action taken without naming the members of the committee.

(f) The rules of the Senate and of the House shall be printed in its respective journal in full.

(g) The yeas and nays which are required to be published in the journal shall be line in compact form. The certificate of election of no more than 1 member from each county shall be printed in full. A brief record that certificates of election of all other members were duly received and found to be correct shall suffice. Not more than 1 member's constitutional oath of office and not more than 1 attache's or employee's oath shall be printed in full. A brief record that all other oaths were administered shall suffice.

(h) The printing shall be done in accordance with contract made by the Director of Research of the Legislative Council or the Director's designee and under the superintendence of the Clerks of the respective Houses. The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, as soon as their respective journals have been printed and published, shall deliver the originals together with all communications, petitions and other related papers not otherwise provided for to the State Archivist and Records Administrator for proper disposition thereof.

Code 1852, §§ 31, 32; 17 Del. Laws, c. 35, § 2; 23 Del. Laws, c. 82; Code 1915, § 375; 40 Del. Laws, c. 76; Code 1935, § 344; 47 Del. Laws, c. 181; 48 Del. Laws, c. 146; 29 Del. C. 1953, § 905; 55 Del. Laws, c. 384, § 5; 59 Del. Laws, c. 253, § 8; 61 Del. Laws, c. 46, §§ 1-3; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 382, § 5.;