California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 29 — Vote by mail ballots and election result statements.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 618, Statutes of 2014.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced December 03, 2012. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 78% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 5 sponsors

    1 primary, 4 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 8 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

(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.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 618, Statutes of 2014.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 4869.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 6406.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read third time and amended. (Page 6222.)

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 13).

  11. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. Hearing postponed by committee.

  13. Hearing postponed by committee.

  14. Hearing postponed by committee.

  15. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 25).

  17. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R.

  18. Referred to Com. on E. & R.

  19. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  20. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1095.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  21. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  22. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1005.) (May 23).

  23. Set for hearing May 23.

  24. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  25. Set for hearing April 8.

  26. 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.

  27. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.

  28. Set for hearing March 19.

  29. Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.

  30. From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.

  31. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 4 co-sponsors · 117 not signed on · 6 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Correa

Co-sponsors (4)

Not signed on (117)

117 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Supp 1 SB29 Correa Concurrence

Passed 21 Yea · 11 Nay · 8 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 191107
Democratic 2001
Total 211108
% of votes cast 53%28%0%20%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Monning — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Nay
Wright — Not Voting
Cannella — Not Voting
Evans — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hill — Yea
De León — Not Voting
Hueso — Yea
Anderson — Nay
Huff — Nay
Knight — Nay
Leno — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Liu — Yea
Morrell — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Pavley — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Torres — Yea
Walters — Nay
Wolk — Not Voting
Lara — Not Voting
Corbett — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Correa — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Nay
Yee — Not Voting
Hancock — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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SB 29 Correa Senate Third Reading By MULLIN

Passed 54 Yea · 25 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 502200
Democratic 4000
Republican 0300
Total 542500
% of votes cast 68%32%0%0%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Nay
Alejo — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Harkey — Nay
Levine — Yea
Linder — Nay
Maienschein — Nay
Mullin — Yea
Olsen — Nay
Perea — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Weber — Yea
Williams — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Lowenthal — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Garcia — Yea
Gatto — Nay
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Fong — Yea
Campos — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Hagman — Nay
Hall — Yea
Holden — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Logue — Nay
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Mansoor — Nay
Medina — Yea
Allen — Nay
Melendez — Nay
Bigelow — Nay
Chesbro — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Daly — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Pan — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Ting — Yea
Waldron — Nay
Wieckowski — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Conway — Nay
Donnelly — Nay
Nestande — Nay
Fox — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gorell — Nay
Beth Gaines — Nay
Jim Patterson — Nay
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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Do pass.

Passed 12 Yea · 5 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 11400
Democratic 1000
Republican 0100
Total 12500
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Bradford — Yea
Holden — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Linder — Nay
Campos — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Pan — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Bigelow — Nay
Donnelly — Nay
Eggman — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Weber — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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3rd Reading

Passed 27 Yea · 10 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 241002
Democratic 3000
Total 271002
% of votes cast 69%26%0%5%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Leno — Yea
Nielsen — Nay
Roth — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Emmerson — Nay
Evans — Yea
Correa — Yea
De León — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Lara — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Liu — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Price — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Torres — Yea
Wright — Yea
Fuller — Nay
Cannella — Not Voting
Huff — Nay
Knight — Nay
Anderson — Nay
Corbett — Yea
Monning — Yea
Walters — Nay
Wolk — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Yee — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass.

Passed 5 Yea · 2 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4200
Democratic 1000
Total 5200
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Lara — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Nay
De León — Yea
Hill — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 29 do?
(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.
Who sponsors SB 29?
SB 29 is sponsored by Correa, Mullin, Steinberg, Bonnie Lowenthal, and Vince Fong.
What is the current status of SB 29?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced December 03, 2012. Enacted.
Where can I track SB 29?
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