CONTENTS. Part 1. General Constitutional and Code Provisions Affecting Drafting of Bills, etc. Secs. 123-140. Part 2. Drafting of Appropriation Bills. Secs. 141-150. Part 3. Drafting of Code Sections and General Laws. Part 4. Drafting of Constitutional Amendments and Joint and Concurrent Resolutions. Secs. 158-162. Part 5. Introduction of Bills. Secs. 163-175. Part 1. Appointment and Organization. Secs. 176-180. Part 2. Reference of Bills to Committees. Secs. 181-191. Part 5. Provisions Governing Individual Committee. Part 1. The Governor. Secs. 423-440. Part 2. Presiding Officers. Secs. 441-457. Part 3. Other Officers and Attaches. Part 4. Printing. Secs. 482-507. Secs. 458-481. Part 5. Use of and Admission to Senate and Assembly Part 6. Attendance, Remuneration, Privileges and Duties of Part 7. Order of Business. Secs. 524-526. Part 8. Changing and Suspending the Rules. Secs. 527-530. I. Chart prepared by L. B. Mallory, Showing the Progress of a Bill after Introduction, follows page 178. II. Suggestions for Guidance of Presiding Officers, page 179. Sec. 1. Number and designation of members. (Political Code.) Sec. 2. Term of office of members. (Political Code.) Sec. 3. Sessions of the Legislature. (Constitution.) Sec. Sec. 5. Transmission and publication of election returns. Sec. 6. Certificate of election evidence of right to seat. Sec. 7. Organization of the Legislature. (Constitution.) Sec. 8. Temporary officers of the Senate and Assembly. Sec. 9. Organization of Senate. (Political Code.) Sec. 12. Oath of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. (Political Code.) Sec. 17. Elections and appointments by the Legislature. (Political Code.) Sec. 18. What officers of Legislature may administer oaths. Sec. 19. What number constitutes a quorum. (Constitution.) Sec. 20. Rules for government of the Legislature. (Constitution.) Sec. 21. Adjournment from day to day. (Constitution.) Sec. 22. Adjournment for constitutional recess and sine die. Sec. 23. Hour of meeting of Legislature. (Senate rule.) Sec. 24. House called to order by Speaker. Sec. 27. Second day (when there has been a gubernatorial election). (Form.) Sec. 28. Convening of Senate (Daily). (Form.) Sec. 29. (Change of presiding officer) Lieutenant Governor (et al.) in the chair. Sec. 40. Adjournment (for constitutional recess or sine die). (Form.) The Legislature consists of 1. Forty senators; and, 2. Eighty members of the Assembly. (Political Code, sec. 225.) 12 SEC. 2. LEGISLATIVE MANUAL AND FORM BOOK. TERM OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS. The term of office of a senator is four years; of a member of the Assembly, two years. (Political Code, sec. 226.) SEC. 3. SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE. The sessions of the Legislature shall be biennial, unless the Governor shall, in the interim, convene the Legislature, by proclamation, in extraordinary session. All sessions, other than extraordinary, shall commence at twelve o'clock m., on the first Monday after the first day of January next succeeding the election of its members, and shall continue in session for a period not exceeding thirty days thereafter; whereupon a recess of both Houses must be taken for not less than thirty days. On the reassembling of the Legislature, no bill shall be introduced in either House without the consent of three-fourths of the members thereof, nor shall more than two bills be introduced by any one member after such reassembling. (Constitution, art. IV, sec. 2.) SEC. 4. TIME AND PLACE OF MEETING OF LEGISLATURE. The Legislature shall assemble at the seat of government at twelve o'clock m., on the first Monday after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and on the first Monday after the first day of January every two years thereafter. (Political Code, sec. 235.) SEC. 5. TRANSMISSION AND PUBLICATION OF ELECTION RETURNS. The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, directed to the Speaker of the Assembly, who shall, during the first week of the session, open and publish them in the presence of both Houses of the Legislature. The person having the highest number of votes shall be Governor; but in case any two or more have an equal and the highest number of votes, the Legislature shall, by joint vote of both Houses, choose one of such persons so having an equal and the highest number of votes for Governor. (Constitution, art. V, sec. 4.) SEC. 6. CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION EVIDENCE OF RIGHT TO SEAT. The certificate of election is prima facie evidence of the right to membership. (Political Code, sec. 236.) SEC. 7. ORGANIZATION OF THE LEGISLATURE. Each house shall choose its officers and judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of its members. (Constitution, art. IV, sec. 7.) SEC. 8. LEGISLATIVE MANUAL AND FORM BOOK. 13 TEMPORARY OFFICERS OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY. The Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the Assembly, the Minute Clerks and Sergeant-at-Arms of each House, for any session, must, at the next succeeding session of the body, perform the duties. of their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. Said officers, and no others, shall be allowed mileage. The Secretary of the Senate may appoint a postmaster, three gatekeepers, and three pages. The Chief Clerk of the Assembly may appoint a postmaster, three gatekeepers, and three pages. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and of the Assembly may each appoint an Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms. There shall be no other officers or employees of either House until the permanent organization is completed. Such officers shall serve only until said permanent organization is completed. (Political Code, sec. 237.) SEC. 9. ORGANIZATION OF SENATE. At the hour of twelve o'clock m., on the day appointed for the meetng of any regular session of the Legislature, the President of the Senate, or in case of his absence or inability, then the senior member resent, must take the chair, call the members and members-elect to order, and then cause the Secretary to call over the senatorial disricts, in their order, from which members have been elected at the. preceding election, and as the same are called the members-elect must resent their certificates, take the constitutional oath of office, and ssume their seats. The Senate may thereupon, if a quorum is present, roceed to elect its officers. (Political Code, sec. 238.) EC. 10. ORGANIZATION OF ASSEMBLY. At the time specified in section two hundred and thirty-eight the lerk of the Assembly, or in case of his absence or inability, then the nior member-elect present, must take the chair, call the members-elect order, and then call over the roll of counties in alphabetical order, d as the same are called the members-elect must present their cerficates, take the constitutional oath of office, and assume their seats. ne Assembly may thereupon, if a quorum is present, proceed to elect officers. (Political Code, sec. 239.) C. 11. OATH OF OFFICE. Members of the Legislature, and all officers, executive and judicial, rept such inferior officers as may be by law exempted, shall, before ey enter upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe e following oath of office: 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will oport the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of |