Amendments From the Floor
69. (a) Any Member may move to amend a bill during its second or
third reading, and that motion to amend may be adopted by a majority
vote of the Members present and voting.  
Amendments to a bill offered from the ?oor, except committee
amendments reported with bills, amendments offered with a motion
to amend and re-refer a bill to committee, amendments deleting any
number of words, or amendments previously printed in the Journal, are
not in order unless and until a copy of the proposed amendments has
been placed upon the desks of the Members. A copy of a bill that has
been amended only to add coauthors to the bill is not required to be
placed upon the desks of the Members if both the Speaker and Minority
Leader grant an exemption.
Amendments offered from the ?oor during a bill’s second or third
reading shall be prepared, or approved as to form, by the Legislative
Counsel.  Before debate ?ve copies of the proposed amendment to Assembly
bills, and ?ve copies of the proposed amendments to Senate bills,
shall be delivered to the Chief Clerk’s desk. One copy of the proposed
amendment shall be transmitted by the Chief Clerk to the Assembly
Floor Analysis Unit. Bills so amended upon second or third reading
shall be reprinted and re-engrossed. The Chief Clerk shall order printed
as many copies of all amended bills as he or she may determine to be
necessary.
(b) (1) Amendments from the ?oor during a bill’s second or third
reading that would make a substantive change in the bill shall be submitted
to the Chief Clerk’s desk by 5:00 p.m. or the time of adjournment,
whichever is later, the business day before the start of session on the
legislative day at which they are to be considered.
(2) Upon receipt of the proposed amendments by the Chief Clerk,
an analysis shall be prepared by the committee of origin in conjunction
with the Assembly Floor Analysis Unit, and a copy of that analysis shall
be distributed to each Member’s desk prior to the beginning of debate
on adoption of the proposed amendments, unless otherwise ordered by
the Speaker.
(3) As used in this subdivision, “bill” does not include a joint or
concurrent resolution, but does include a constitutional amendment.
(c) Paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) does not apply to (1) amendments
to a bill taken up without reference to ?le, (2) amendments to a bill
to add or delete an urgency clause, (3) amendments to a bill that are
identical to other amendments submitted to the Chief Clerk’s desk in
accordance with the requirements of this rule, (4) amendments to the
Budget Bill or to a bill that is making statutory changes necessary to
implement the Budget Bill, or (5) amendments to a bill to make the
bill contingent upon the enactment of another bill, or to incorporate
one or more statutory amendments proposed in another bill to avoid
superseding those amendments.
(d) Any bill amended on the second or third reading ?le shall be
ordered reprinted and returned to the third reading ? le, and may not be
acted on by the Assembly until the bill, as amended, has been on the
Daily File for one calendar day. This subdivision does not apply to a
bill that is amended to add or delete an urgency clause or to a bill that is
amended to make statutory changes to implement the Budget Bill.
(e) A motion to amend a bill on the second or third reading ? le,
other than committee amendments reported pursuant to Rule 57, is
not in order on (1) the last two legislative days preceding the January
31 bill passage deadline speci?ed by Section 10 of Article IV of
the California Constitution or (2) the last seven days preceding the
scheduled commencement of the interim study recess or the scheduled
commencement of the ?nal recess as speci?ed by the Joint Rules of the
Senate and Assembly. This subdivision may be suspended temporarily
by two-thirds vote of the Members present and voting. This subdivision
does not apply to amendments to a bill pursuant to Joint Rule 23.5,
amendments to a bill to add or delete an urgency clause, or amendments
to a bill to incorporate one or more statutory amendments proposed in
another bill to avoid superseding those amendments.