Lou Correa
- Democratic
Author
(1) Existing law makes the vote by mail ballot available to any registered voter, including military or overseas voters. Existing law requires that those vote by mail ballots, including those vote by mail ballots cast by military or overseas voters, be received by the elections officials from whom they were obtained or by the precinct boards before the polls close on election day in order to be counted. Existing law authorizes certain local, special, or consolidated elections to be conducted wholly by mail, so long as specified conditions are satisfied. Existing law requires ballots cast in these vote by mail elections to be returned to the elections official from whom they were obtained no later than 8 p.m. on election day. This bill would, notwithstanding the above provisions, provide that any vote by mail ballot, including any vote by mail ballot cast by a military or overseas voter, is timely cast if it is received by the voter's elections official via the United States Postal Service or a bona fide private mail delivery company no later than 3 days after election day, and either the ballot is postmarked on or before election day or is time stamped or date stamped by a bona fide private mail delivery company on or before election day or, if the ballot has no postmark, a postmark with no date, or an illegible postmark, the vote by mail ballot identification envelope is date stamped by the elections official upon receipt and is signed and dated by the voter on or before election day. Because the bill would expand the duties of local elections officials, it would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law permits any jurisdiction in which vote by mail ballots are cast to begin processing vote by mail ballot return envelopes 29 days prior to election, and authorizes any jurisdiction having the necessary computer capability to start processing vote by mail ballots 7 business days prior to the election. This bill would instead authorize any jurisdiction having the necessary computer capability to start processing vote by mail ballots 10 business days prior to the election. (3) Existing law requires the elections official to prepare a certified statement of the results of the election and submit it to the governing body within 28 days of the election, except for specified elections. This bill would instead require the elections official to submit the certified statement of the results of the election to the governing body within 30 days of the election. (4) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 15101 of the Elections Code proposed by AB 2530, to be operative only if AB 2530 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. (5) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 618, Statutes of 2014.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 4869.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 6406.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read third time and amended. (Page 6222.)
Ordered to third reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 13).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Hearing postponed by committee.
Hearing postponed by committee.
Hearing postponed by committee.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 25).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1095.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1005.) (May 23).
Set for hearing May 23.
Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing April 8.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 325.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Set for hearing March 19.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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| SB29 | HTML |
| 12/03/12 - Introduced | |
| 03/06/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/10/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/27/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/11/14 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/20/14 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/28/14 - Enrolled | |
| 09/26/14 - Chaptered |
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