46 Pa. Stat. § 83

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 83 - Preparation and contents of Journal; appendix; index; distribution

The Legislative Journal shall be prepared, under the direction of the chief clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, by the official reporters, clerks and employes of each House, authorized to supervise and prepare the same, and shall contain the following matters; namely, motions, resolutions (simple and concurrent), in full; petitions, remonstrances, and memorials, by brief reference; debate in full; bills and joint resolutions on first, second and third reading and final passage in the House, by title, in the Senate by number only; reports of conference committees, by title, in the proceedings of both Houses; the yeas and nays, in full, messages and communications from either House to the other or to the Governor, or messages and communications from the Governor to the House, in full, and to the Senate, by brief reference; the biennial messages and inaugural address of the Governor, and tabulated returns of elections for State officers, in full, in the proceedings of the Senate, and by reference only in the proceedings of the House; returns of elections for Senators and Members, in full, in the proceedings of the respective Houses to which returns are made; annual communications of the several State departments, by brief reference; reports of institutions and organizations required by law to be made to the Legislature, by brief reference in the proceedings of the day on which presented; reports of committees on bills in the House, by title, and in the Senate, by number only; bills introduced, by title only; executive nominations, when confirmed at the same time and by the same vote, with but one list of yeas and nays appended, in full, in the proceedings of the Senate; and, generally, what is actually said, read, or done, under the limitations heretofore prescribed. A list of the standing committees of the House of Representatives shall be printed, in solid form, at the end of the proceedings in the last number of each month. The reports of all special committees presented in either House shall be printed in an appendix, unless authorized by resolution to be printed in the same day's Journal on which the report is presented, in which case the said report shall be printed but once, in separate form, following the proceedings of both Houses. The Legislative Journal shall include an appendix, which shall contain an index to the Legislative Journal and said appendix; the index to be compiled under the direction of the librarian of the Senate, and shall be prepared as concisely as possible; the said appendix and index to be part of the Legislative Journal. The reports and other matters in the appendix shall be printed in separate sections: Provided, That the chief clerks of the respective Houses may each order not more than three thousand extra copies of any particular report or matter appearing in the appendix, to be delivered by the printer to the Division of Distribution of Documents, subject to requisition as follows: by the Senate, three-twelfths; by the House of Representatives, five-twelfths; and four-twelfths by the Legislative Reference Bureau. The appendix shall be printed in the manner and style provided in section three of this act. Five hundred and fifty copies of the appendix and four hundred copies of the index shall be printed. Fifty copies of the complete unbound appendix shall be furnished and delivered by the printer to the Senate, fifty copies to the House of Representatives, and fifty copies to the Legislative Reference Bureau. Four hundred copies each of the appendix and index shall be retained by the printer of the Legislative Journal and bound by him, together with a like number of each copy of the Legislative Journal, as hereinafter provided, and be delivered by him to the Division of Distribution of Documents, and be subject to requisition as herein provided.

46 P.S. § 83

1919, July 12, P.L. 941, § 2; 1939, June 19, P.L. 411, § 1; 1956, April 3, P.L. (1955) 1367, § 1; 1959, Nov. 30, P.L. 1599, § 1.