Pennsylvania Act 1943-11 — RELATING TO LEGISLATURE: KEEPING AND PUBLICATION OF JOURNALS

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RELATING TO LEGISLATURE: KEEPING AND PUBLICATION OF JOURNALS
                  Act of Mar. 24, 1943, P.L. 22, No. 11               Cl. 46
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to the journals of the proceedings of the Senate and of
        the House of Representatives; requiring the keeping thereof
        and their publication in the Legislative Journal, and
        abolishing the separate publication of such journals.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The Senate and the House of Representatives shall
     each keep a journal of its proceedings as now required by the
     Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. The Journal of the
     Senate and the Journal of the House of Representatives shall
     both be published in the Legislative Journal now provided for by
     law, which shall serve as the Journals of the Senate and of the
     House of Representatives respectively, in compliance with the
     requirements of section twelve of article two of the
     Constitution.
        Section 2.  No separate publications shall be made of the
     proceedings of either the Senate or of the House of
     Representatives of the legislative session of one thousand nine
     hundred forty-three, or of any legislative session thereafter.
        Section 3.  Section eight of the act, approved the ninth day
     of June, one thousand nine hundred eleven (Pamphlet Laws, eight
     hundred forty-nine), entitled "An act providing for the
     preparation, contents, style, printing, and binding of the
     Legislative Journal, and the preparation, printing, and binding
     of the Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives;
     authorizing the appointment of official reporters; typewriters,
     clerks, and other employes; 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," and section eight of the act,
     approved the twelfth day of July, one thousand nine hundred
     nineteen (Pamphlet Laws, nine hundred forty-one), entitled "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," are hereby
     repealed.
        All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
     hereby repealed in so far as they provide for the separate
     printing, binding, and distribution of the Journal of the Senate
     and the Journal of the House of Representatives.
        Section 4.  This act shall become effective immediately upon
     final enactment.