Bill Text: AZ SB1210 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Statutory drafting and revision

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-26 - Chapter 66 [SB1210 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2015-SB1210-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: statutory drafting and revision

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

First Regular Session

2015

 

 

SB 1210

 

Introduced by

Senators Biggs, Allen, Griffin, Yarbrough

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending Title 1, chapter 2, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 1-255; AMENDING section 41‑1304.02, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to STATUTORY drafting and revision.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 1, chapter 2, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 1-255, to read:

START_STATUTE1-255.  Adopting statute by reference; subsequent amendments

A reference to a statute or portion of a statute applies to all REENACTMENTS, revisions or AMENDMENTS of the statute or portion of the statute. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.  Section 41-1304.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1304.02.  Preparing the statutes for publication; revisions

A.  The director of the Arizona legislative council, in carrying out the provisions of section 41‑1304.01, subsection A, paragraphs 2 and 4 and 5, shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any law but may:

1.  Renumber sections and parts of sections of newly enacted text.

2.  Rearrange sections, parts of sections, articles, chapters and titles.

3.  Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered sections, parts of sections, articles, chapters or titles.

4.  Substitute the proper section, article, chapter or title for the terms "the preceding section", "this article",  and "this act" and similar terms.

5.  Substitute the actual date for the terms "the effective date of this section" and "the effective date of this AMENDMENT to this section" and similar terms.

5.  6.  Strike out figures where they are merely a repetition of written words.

6.  7.  Change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity.

7.  8.  Correct manifest clerical, typographical and electronic data base database errors in statutory and nonstatutory text.

B.  The director shall:

1.  Omit from the statutes all temporary laws, all titles to acts, all enacting and repealing clauses, all declarations of emergency, and all purpose, validity and construction clauses unless, from their nature, it may be necessary to retain some of them to preserve the full meaning and intent of the law.

2.  Include in the statutes any provision that was enacted as temporary law but that, by its nature, will have continuing application or effect.

C.  The director shall not undertake to make any change of:

1.  Existing laws, it being the intention of this section that the director shall in no manner assume to exercise legislative power.

2.  A provision that is subject to a referendum until the provision becomes law as provided in the Constitution of Arizona. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3.  Retroactivity

Section 41-1304.02, Arizona Revised Statutes as amended by this act, applies retroactivity to from and after April 20, 2015. END_STATUTE