Pennsylvania Act 1919-371 — LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL PROVIDED FOR

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LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL PROVIDED FOR
                 Act of Jul. 12, 1919, P.L. 941, No. 371              Cl. 46
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the preparation, contents, style, printing and
        binding of the Legislative Journal and its delivery and
        distribution; providing for the preparation, printing and
        binding of the Journals of the Senate and House of
        Representatives; authorizing the appointment of official
        reporters, expert typewriters, clerks and other employes, and
        providing for their compensation and mileage; providing for
        the making of an appendix and index, the printing of wrappers
        or envelopes for mailing the Legislative Journal; and
        repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the legislative journal,
     as authorized by the act, approved the twenty-third day of
     April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and nine, shall be
     published through the Department of Public Printing and Binding,
     either by special contract or included in the general contract
     for the State printing and binding, whichever the superintendent
     may deem expedient, and, in the event of a special contract, the
     same shall be advertised and let at the same time and for the
     same number of years as the general contract for the State
     printing and binding. The maximum prices for the composition,
     press work, and all other work on said legislative journal, not
     specially provided for by act of Assembly, shall be fixed by the
     Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding.
        Section 2.  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.
        (2 amended Nov. 30, 1959, P.L.1599, No.578)
        Section 3.  The Legislative Journal shall be published daily
     and the appendix and index whenever determined by the General
     Assembly, size of the pages and type as well as the weight and
     color of the paper shall be as determined by the General
     Assembly. The style shall conform generally to that of the
     present Legislative Journal. The printing of the proceedings of
     the Senate and the House of Representatives may be done
     separately.
        (3 amended Feb. 19, 1963, P.L.3, No.1)
        Section 4.  Six thousand five hundred and fifty copies of
     each number (except the appendix and index) of the Legislative
     Journal shall be printed and delivered by the printer thereof as
     follows: two hundred and seventy-five copies of each number to
     the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate; five hundred copies of each
     number to the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives;
     one thousand seven hundred and fifty copies to the
     superintendent of the folding room of the Senate; three thousand
     six hundred copies of each number to the superintendent of the
     folding room of the House of Representatives; twenty-five copies
     of each number to the Legislative Reference Bureau; and four
     hundred copies of each number shall be retained by the printer
     of the Legislative Journal, and be bound by him, together with a
     like number of copies of the appendix and index, as herein
     provided; the same to be bound in half sheep, or as the
     Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding shall deem most
     expedient, and be delivered by the Legislative Journal printer
     to the Division of Distribution of Documents, and to be
     distributed as follows: five copies shall be labeled "Property
     of the Senate," five copies shall be labeled "Property of the
     House of Representatives," and shall be for the use of those
     respective branches of the General Assembly. Each Senator and
     officer of the Senate, and each Member and officer of the House
     of Representatives, may requisition one copy; the State
     Librarian, one hundred copies; the Legislative Reference Bureau,
     five copies; the Senate library, five copies; and the Chief of
     the Division of Distribution of Documents shall deliver one copy
     to each of the official reporters, expert typewriters, and
     Legislative Journal clerks of the Senate and House of
     Representatives, respectively, unless otherwise directed by the
     said chief official reporters.  All unbound numbers of the
     Legislative Journals delivered to the Senate, House of
     Representatives, and Legislative Reference Bureau shall be
     folded, wirestitched, trimmed, and eyeleted ready for filing and
     mailing.
        Section 5.  That all copy for the said Legislative Journal is
     to be furnished to the Superintendent of Public Printing and
     Binding, daily, in typewritten form where practicable, by the
     Legislative Journal clerks of the Senate and House of
     Representatives, respectively, whose duty it is to assist in the
     preparation of the same,---said copy to be prepared under the
     direction of the chief clerks of the Senate and House of
     Representatives,---and the proceedings of both Houses are to be
     printed in the said Legislative Journal and delivered, as herein
     provided, not later than the day following the receipt of said
     copy from the chief clerk of either or chief clerks of both
     Houses, by the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding,
     whose duty it shall be to see that the same is printed as
     speedily as possible. Any failure of the contractor or
     contractors to print and deliver the said Legislative Journal to
     the sergeant-at-arms, and the superintendents of the folding
     rooms of the two Houses, and the Legislative Reference Bureau,
     within twenty-four hours from the receipt by him of the complete
     copy, shall, unless otherwise ordered by the Superintendent of
     Public Printing and Binding for reasonable cause, subject said
     contract or contractors to a fine of five hundred dollars for
     each and every day such failure occurs, to be paid to the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use of said Commonwealth,
     and to be collected as other fines are now collectible by law.
     The Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding shall have all
     the copy of the Legislative Journal returned to the chief
     official reporter of the House from which received, at least
     once a week, and whenever so required by the said chief official
     reporter; and the same shall be kept on file in the offices of
     the official reporters of the respective Houses for a period of
     one year after the final adjournment of the Legislature.
        Section 6.  (6 repealed Jan. 21, 1947, P.L.3, No.1)
        Section 7.  The librarian of the Senate and the resident
     clerk of the House of Representatives shall receive from the
     Senators and principal officers of the Senate and the Members
     and principal officers of the House of Representatives,
     respectively, the names and post-office addresses of the persons
     to whom the copies of the Legislative Journal are to be
     regularly transmitted; and the librarian of the Senate and the
     resident clerk of the House of Representatives shall transmit
     said names with the post-office addresses, the name of the
     Senator, Member, or officer sending the same, to the
     Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, who shall cause
     the same to be printed on wrappers or envelopes, on such paper
     as may be designated by the Superintendent of Public Printing
     and Binding, under the contract existing or that may hereafter
     exist between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the
     contractor or contractors for the State printing and binding
     upon the same terms and rates as other State printing.
        Section 8.  (8 repealed Mar. 24, 1943, P.L.22, No.11)
        Section 9.  All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the
     provisions of this act are hereby repealed: Provided, however,
     That nothing herein contained shall in any manner interfere with
     or abrogate the present contract or contracts for the printing
     and binding of the Legislative Journal, or affect the time and
     manner of letting of future contracts.