§ 9.129. Effective date of statutes.
(a) General rule.—Statutes enacted at any regular or special session are effective 60 days after final enactment unless a different date is specified in the statute itself. If a statute is finally enacted after the date specified in the statute, the statute is effective 60 days after final enactment. Different rules apply to various statutes finally enacted prior to June 6, 1969.
(b) Statutes making appropriations.—Appropriation statutes, or statutes having appropriation items, are effective on the first day of July next following their final enactment, unless a different date is specified in the statute itself, or unless any such statute is enacted finally after the first day of July in any year, or after the date specified in the statute, in which case it is effective immediately upon final enactment.
(c) Statutes affecting political subdivision budget.—Statutes affecting the budget of any political subdivision are effective on the date specified in the statute, or if no date is specified, then at the beginning of the fiscal year of the political subdivision affected following the date of final enactment of the statute.
(d) Provisions changed by amendment.—Whenever a section or part of a statute is amended, the amendment is construed as merging into the original statute, becomes a part thereof, and replaces the part amended, and the remainder of the original statute and the amendment are read together and viewed as one statute passed at one time; but the portions of the statute which were not altered by the amendment are construed as effective from the time of their original enactment, and the new provisions are construed as effective only from the date when the amendment became effective.
(e) Provisions of reenacted statute.—Whenever a statute reenacts a former statute, the provisions common to both statutes date from their first adoption. Such provisions only of the former statute as are omitted from the reenactment are deemed abrogated, and only the new or changed provisions are deemed to be the law from the effective date of the reenactment.
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