Ben Hueso
- Democratic
Author
Existing law regulates the process of proposing initiative measures to the people and sets forth qualifications for persons who circulate initiative petitions in the state. This bill would require a firm that engages in the business of paying individuals to circulate petitions and gather signatures for state or local ballot initiatives to register with the Secretary of State and pay a registration fee to be established by the Secretary of State. Failure to register would be punishable by a fine, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of State to use the fees collected to maintain a directory of these firms on its Internet Web site, as well as to defray costs associated with other requirements of the bill, as specified. This bill also would require a member of the firm to review the law relating to obtaining petition signatures with each paid petition circulator before the paid petition circulator obtains any signatures for the firm, and to submit to the Secretary of State a statement signed by each petition circulator and the member who conducted the review that the petition circulator has received the review, as well as a copy of the training materials provided to the petition circulator in connection with the review. Failure to submit the required training or verification materials would be punishable by a fine, as specified.
Vetoed by Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 48. Noes 27. Page 2912.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 16. Page 2205.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 1043.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (April 13).
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (March 29).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB651 | HTML |
| 02/16/11 - Introduced | |
| 03/22/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/05/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/01/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/11/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/29/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/12/11 - Enrolled |
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