Pennsylvania Act 1909-116 — LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL, PRINTING OF

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AN ACT

Providing for the method, contents, style, reporting, and printing of the Legislative Journal; authorizing the appointment of official reporters and typewriters; providing for the making of an appendix and index, the printing of wrappers for said Journal; abolishing the printing of the Legislative Record, and Senate and House of Representatives Journals in separate form; and repealing all acts, or parts of acts, relating to the printing of the Legislative Record and wrappers for the same.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the expiration of the present contracts for publishing the Legislative Record and the Legislative Record wrappers, on the first Monday of June, Anno Domini nineteen hundred and ten, the Legislative Record, and the separate publications known as the Journal of the Senate and Journal of the House of Representatives, are hereby abolished; and there shall be published, through the Department 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, a Legislative Journal.

Section 2. The Legislative Journal shall consist of the journals of the proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives, as prepared by the journal clerks and official stenographers of each House, and shall contain the following matters, viz., motions, resolutions, simple, joint and concurrent; petitions, remonstrances and memorials, by title; debate, in full; bills, on first reading, by title; on second reading, at length, in the House in which said bill originates, only, unless amended; and at length, on third reading and final passage, if amended; reports of Conference Committees, in full, in House in which bill originates; yeas and nays; messages and communications from either House or the Governor, excluding the biennial messages of the Governor, and annual communications of the several State departments; reports of committees on bills, by title 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; and, generally, what is actually said, read, or done, under the limitations heretofore prescribed. The reports of all special committees, presented in either House, shall be printed in an appendix. The Legislative Journal shall contain an index, to be compiled under the direction of the Librarian of the Senate, which shall be prepared as concisely as possible; the said index to be a part of the Legislative Journal, and shall be printed in solid form, as provided in section three of this act. The number of appendix and indices to be printed shall be five hundred and fifty copies of each number.

Section 3. The Legislative Journal is to be printed on a good quality of white book-paper, and to consist of not less than four pages to each number; the pages to be the same size as the Legislative Record for the session of nineteen hundred and nine, and to contain two columns. The styles of type and composition to be the same as used in the Congressional Record of the Sixtieth Congress. The pages to be numbered consecutively from the first page. The said Legislative Journal to be published daily, whenever sufficient matter is on hand to fill not less than four pages.

Section 4. Six thousand five hundred and fifty copies of each number (except the appendix and indices) of the Legislative Journal shall be printed, and be delivered as follows: Two hundred of each number to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, three hundred and fifty to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, one thousand eight hundred to the superintendent of the folding-room of the Senate, three thousand six hundred and fifty to the superintendent of the folding-room of the House of Representatives, and five hundred and fifty shall be retained by the State Printer, for binding; the same to be delivered, when bound, as follows; viz, One hundred copies to the Librarian of the Senate, one copy of which shall be sent to each Senator and principal officers; two hundred and fifty copies to the Resident Clerk of the House of Representatives, one copy of which shall be sent to each member of the House of Representatives and principal officers; and two hundred copies to the State Librarian. All the unbound numbers of the Legislative Journals delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives shall be folded, wire-stitched and eyeleted, ready for filing and mailing.

Section 5. That all copy for said Legislative Journal is to be furnished to the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, daily, in typewritten form where practicable, by the journal clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives; 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 appear in the said Legislative Journal the day following the receipt of said copy, from the journal clerk of either or 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 superintendent of the pasting and folding-rooms of the two Houses, before the opening of the Legislative session on the day following the receipt by him of the copy aforesaid, shall, unless otherwise ordered by the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, for reasonable cause, subject said contractor 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 Journal returned to the chief clerk of the House from which received, and the same shall be kept on file, in the office of said clerks, for a period of two years.

Section 6. The chief clerk of the Senate is hereby authorized to appoint at the beginning of each regular biennial session of the Senate, and at such other times as may be necessary, two expert stenographers, who shall be known as the official reporters of the Senate, and two expert typewriters. The chief clerk of the House of Representatives is hereby authorized to appoint at the beginning of each regular biennial session of the House of Representatives, and at such other times as may be necessary, three expert stenographers, who shall be known as the official reporters of the House of Representatives, and three expert typewriters. The official stenographers shall take the debates, and such other matter as may be required by the chief clerks and journal clerks of either House, and the typewriters shall transcribe the same. The compensation of each of said official stenographers shall be twelve dollars per diem, for every day of each regular biennial, special, or extraordinary session; and the typewriter shall each receive six dollars per diem, for every day of each regular biennial, special, or extraordinary session. Each of the above-named officers and employes shall return, as such, to the next regular biennial session of the Legislature following that for which they were appointed; and those who are not reappointed, or appointed or elected to some other office in the Legislature, shall be allowed their regular per diem compensation. Each of the above-named officers and employes shall be entitled to the same mileage, for each regular biennial, special, or extraordinary session, as is provided for the other officers of the General Assembly, in section four of the act approved April twelfth, one thousand nine hundred and five. The Librarian of the Senate shall appoint a competent person or persons to index the Legislative Journal, and for the payment of the same the sum of one thousand dollars shall be allowed. The Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding is hereby authorized to appoint, at the beginning of each session of the Legislature, a clerk (who shall be a competent printer), whose duty it shall be to supervise, arrange, and measure the composition of the Legislative Journal; for which services he shall receive the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, until the Journal, appendix, and index have been completed.

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 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, on such paper as may be designated by the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, under the contract existing, or that may thereafter 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. That an act, entitled "An act to carry out the provisions of article three, section twelve, of the Constitution, relative to contracts for reporting and printing the Legislative Record," approved May fifteenth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; and the act, entitled "An act to provide for printing and furnishing the wrappers for the Legislative Record," approved the twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and all other acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed.