Joint Legislative Budget Committee: continuing existence at start of new legislative session
California's Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) exists continuously under state law and legislative rules. Pursuant to Government Code Section 9140 (AB 3442, Lowrey: Chapter 1667, Statutes of 1951), the JLBC " has a continuing existence and may meet, act and conduct its business...during the sessions of the Legislature or any recess thereof, and in the interim period between sessions." The Legislature's Joint Rule 37 further declares the JLBC "to be a continuing body." Joint Rule 37 requires the Senate President pro Tempore and the Speaker of the Assembly to appoint the JLBC's 16 members--eight from each of their houses. Under Joint Rule 37, at the beginning of a new legislative session, "those members of the committee who continue to be Members of the Senate and Assembly, respectively, continue as members of the committee until their successors are appointed." Government Code Section 9141 confirms the key parts of this rule. The rule...