Gov. Code, § 9740 · Article 3. Legislative Manual
Gov. Code, § 9740
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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall during the month of December in each even-numbered year, commence to compile a legislative manual or handbook. The compilation shall be completed as soon as practical after the convening of the session, and the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall immediately thereafter publish and distribute the legislative manual or handbook, in such manner as they may determine.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=9740.
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- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
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