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Digests of each bill enacted in a two-year session, as prepared and compiled by the Legislative Counsel. The measures are listed by chapter number, reflecting the order in which they were signed into law.

See Lay on the Table.

That portion of the Daily File listing the bills that are ready to be taken up for final passage.

The material on the first page of a bill that identifies the provisions of law affected by the bill and the subject matter of the bill.

In the Assembly, 54; in the Senate, 27. Required, for example, for urgency measures and most measures making appropriations from the General Fund.

The consent of all of those Members present, ordinarily presumed to exist in the absence of objection.

A legislature consisting of one house (Nebraska has the only unicameral state legislature).

Section of a bill stating that the bill will take effect immediately upon enactment. A vote on the urgency clause, requiring a two-thirds vote in each house, must precede a vote on the bill.

A limitation in the California Constitution on the maximum amount of tax proceeds that state or local government may appropriate in a fiscal year. The limit is based on 1986-87 fiscal year appropriations, and is adjusted annually.