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SB 947 (Leno-D) Electrical corporations: political expenditures
Prohibits a specific electrical and gas corporation from spending funds received from ratepayers on political and public affairs related to state or local governments.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 1007 (Hancock-D) Political Reform Act: retirement boards
Requires elected members of and candidates for the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement Board of the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) to file campaign reports in generally the same manner and frequency as other candidates. Makes existing contribution limits for other state offices applicable to candidates for the STRS Board.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2010

SB 1118* (Ashburn-R) Political reform: campaign contribution disclosure
Requires, beginning 1/1/11, the Governor or a Member of the Legislature who receives a contribution(s) totaling $1,000 during a specified state budget time period or a specified period, before or after the end of the first year or second year of a legislative session, to file online a report disclosing the contribution(s) within 24 hours of the time the contribution is made or received, except that the contribution would only be required to comply with this provision if he/she were already required to file online or electronically pursuant to another provision of existing law.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
Similar bills were AB 1322 (Huffman-D) which died on the Senate Floor, AB 1411 (Torrico-D) which died on the Assembly Inactive File, and AB 2622 (Smyth-R) which died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee.

SB 1271 (Romero-D) Political reform: conflict of interest: retirement board
Requires a public retirement board to attach an appendix to its conflict of interest code that lists each position with the board for which an individual occupying the position is required to file a Statement of Economic Interests as a public official who manages public investments.
Chapter 702, Statutes of 2010

AB 741 (Bill Berryhill-R) Political reform: campaign funds
Prohibits funds held by a ballot measure committee from being used for a candidate's or elected officer's attorney's fees or other costs in connection with administrative, civil, or criminal litigation.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 919 (Nava-D) Political activity: corporations
Requires specified corporations that engage in political activity, as defined, to mail their California shareholders a Political Activity Report summarizing their political contributions, and allows shareholders who to object to those contributions to receive a pro rata refund of those contributions.
(Failed passage in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2321 (Nava-D) which died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee.

AB 1181 (Huber-D) Political reform: statements and reports
Lowers the monetary thresholds which trigger mandatory electronic reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures by candidates, officeholders, committees, major donors, and slate mailer organizations. Eliminates the requirement that Members of the Legislature and the Board of Equalization, court of appeal justices, superior court judges, and candidates for those offices file paper copies of campaign reports with the elections official of the county with the largest number of registered voters in the districts affected and instead requires candidates for the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to file campaign reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2010

AB 1262 (Audra Strickland-R) Ethics in government
Exempts from the anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) Law speech-related lawsuits under the Political Reform Act.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1274 (Huber-D) Political reform: lobbyists
Requires lobbyists who file periodic reports with the Secretary of State to include the specific bill numbers lobbied on during the reporting period. Requires the Secretary of State to post the reports on its Internet Web site.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1322* (Huffman-D) Political reform: campaign contribution disclosures
Requires, beginning 1/1/11, the Governor or a Member of the Legislature who receives a contribution(s) totaling $1,000 during a specified state budget time period or a specified period, before or after the end of the first year or second year of a legislative session, to file online a report disclosing the contribution(s) within 24 hours of the time the contribution is made or received, except that the contribution would only be required to comply with this provision if he/she were already required to file online or electronically pursuant to another provision of existing law.
(Died on Senate Floor)
Similar bills were SB 1118 (Ashburn-D) which died at the Assembly Desk, AB 1411 (Torrico-D) which died on the Assembly Inactive File, and AB 2622 (Smyth-R) which died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee.

AB 1334 (Blakeslee-R) Political reform: agents of foreign principals
Expands the definition of "lobbyist" to include an individual who acts as an agent or representative of a foreign principal, as defined, and who communicates with any elective state official, agency official, or legislative official for the purpose of influencing legislative or administrative action.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1411 (Torrico-D) Campaign fundraising: delayed budget bill
Prohibits a member of the Legislature from participating in any campaign fundraising activity from July 1 until August 15, or the date the Budget Bill is passed by the Legislature and sent to the Governor, whichever occurs first.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1412 (Torrico-D) Political reform: gifts
Prohibits a lobbyist employer from making gifts to a Member of the Legislature aggregating more than $10 in a calendar month.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1514 (Hayashi-D) Political reform: reporting
Requires slate mailer organizations to file semi-annual campaign statements regardless of the amount of payments received or expenditures made to produce slate mailers. Double-jointed with AB 1181 (Huber-D), Chapter 18, Statutes of 2010.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2010

AB 1743 (Hernandez-D) Political reform: public retirement boards: placement agents
Prohibits a person from acting as a placement agent in connection with any potential investment made by a state public retirement system unless that person is registered as a lobbyist in accordance with, and is in full compliance with, the requirements of the California Political Reform Act (PRA). Requires placement agents connected with investments made by local public retirement systems to comply with any applicable requirements imposed by a local government agency on lobbyists pursuant to the PRA.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2010

AB 1921 (Davis-D) Political reform: electronic filing of statement
Allows Santa Clara and Ventura Counties and the City of Long Beach to participate in an ongoing pilot project that allows certain local jurisdictions to permit statements of economic interest to be filed electronically.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2010

AB 2007 (Adams-R) Political reform: gifts
Requires the Fair Political Practices Commission, on or before February 1 of each year, to post information on its Internet Web site regarding gifts to Members of the Legislature and designated employees of the Legislature that are reported on lobbying disclosure reports.
Vetoed

AB 2164 (Norby-R) Political reform: contributions
Exempts officials who are elected to local and state agencies from provisions of state law limiting contributions to those officials from entities with business before the agency involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 2321 (Nava-D) Political reform: corporations
Requires a corporation that makes a contribution or expenditure for a "political activity" in the State of California, as defined, to prepare a report within 30 days after the close of the corporation's fiscal year containing specified information regarding all contributions or expenditures made by the corporation for political activities in the State of California during that fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
A similar bill was AB 919 (Nava-D) which failed passage in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee.

AB 2357 (Saldana-D) Political reform: committee expenditure
Amends the Political Reform Act to require a committee primarily formed for the qualification or support of, or opposition to, an initiative or ballot measure, to include in its filed campaign statements, the amount of each expenditure made in connection with a poll or survey used to influence voters regarding an initiative or ballot measure, or used to gauge the public's opinion on the ballot title and summary of an initiative or ballot measure.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2368 (Blakeslee-R) Political reform: lobbyists: gifts
Amends the Political Reform Act to prohibit a lobbyist employer from making gifts of $10 or more in a calendar month to a Member of the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 2697 (Hagman-R) Political reform: former regulatory board employee
Prohibits a member of a state regulatory board, for a period of one year after leaving his/her position, from accepting employment with an entity that was regulated by the regulatory board.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

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SB 211 (Simitian-D) Elections: special elections
Revises procedures for holding special elections to fill vacancies in the California Congressional delegation when a large number of vacancies occur in Congress.
Chapter 306, Statutes of 2010

SB 370 (Runner-R) Elections: voting
Provides that a person on probation for the conviction of a felony is not eligible to register to vote. Requires that the identification (return) envelope for a vote by mail ballot include the last four digits of the voter's California driver's license or identification card number or, if unavailable, the last four digits of the voter's social security number and requires this information be verified before counting the ballot. Provides that a vote by mail ballot of uniformed services voters or their spouses or dependents must be cast by Election Day but may be received by elections officials up to 21 days after the election. Requires a person who desires to vote at the polls on Election Day to show specified proof of identification and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to waive the fee for an identification card requested for satisfying this requirement.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 465 (Huff-R) Voter identification: proof of identity
Requires a person desiring to vote to present proof of his/her identity to a member of the precinct board before receiving a ballot. Requires the proof of identity to contain the person's name and photograph, to be either unexpired or expired after the last general election, and to be issued by the United States, the State of California, or a tribal government.
(Failed passage in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 582 (Dutton-R) Voting by mail: military personnel
Provides that the vote by mail ballot of a member of the United States Armed Forces who is an "absent uniformed services voter" and which is postmarked or signed and dated by election day may be received by the elections officials up to 21 days after an election.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 617 (Harman-R) Intervention: initiatives
Provides that the official proponent of a state initiative statute or constitutional amendment, that has been approved by the voters, would have the right to intervene and participate in any court action challenging the constitutionality of the initiative statute or constitutional amendment.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 631 (Walters-R) Voting: felons
Provides that a person on probation for conviction of a felony is also ineligible to register to vote in California and, commencing in 2011, requires county elections officials to cancel the voter registration for these probationers upon notice from the clerk of the superior court.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 970 (Corbett-D) Vote by mail dropoff
Permits the Secretary of State, in conjunction with county elections officials, the University of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and the California Community Colleges (CCC) to establish vote by mail ballot dropoff locations on three college campuses in the state for at least one general election held between 1/1/11 and 12/31/16. Requires one of the college campuses to be a campus within the UC system with at least 20,000 registered students, one of the college campuses to be a campus within the CSU system with at least 13,000 registered students, and one of the college campuses to be a campus within the CCC system with at least 10,000 registered students.
Vetoed

SB 994 (Price-D) Special elections: reimbursement
Requires the state to reimburse counties for the costs of special elections to fill vacancies of State Senator, Member of the Assembly, United States Senator, or Representative in the Congress.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1102 (Liu-D) Elections: vote by mail
Allows a special general or primary election called to fill a vacancy in an office of Representative in Congress, State Senate, or Member of the Assembly to be conducted wholly by mail within a county if certain conditions are satisfied, including that the board of supervisors of the county authorizes the all-mail ballot election. Revises and recast the procedures applicable to elections conducted wholly by mail, including procedures relating to notifying voters of information relating to the election, the distribution of election materials, and the establishment of locations for the return of ballots.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1140 (Yee-D) Elections: registration
Allows a person, after the state has deployed a new voter registration database (VoteCal), to register and vote and then vote at any office of a county elections official at any time between 29 days before election day and up to and including election day.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1581 (Portantino-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 1202 (DeSaulnier-D) Elections: ballot pamphlet
Requires the statewide ballot pamphlet to include, immediately below the analysis by the Legislative Analyst, a list of the five highest contributors of $50,000 or more to each primarily formed committee supporting each state measure and the total amount of each of their contributions. For purposes of this requirement, if a contributor is a committee controlled by a candidate, the name of the candidate must be listed and if a contributor is a sponsored committee, the name of the sponsor shall be listed. Requires a statement following the list that reflects only the highest contributors of the 110 days before election day.
Vetoed

SB 1342 (Simitian-D) Election precincts
Allows a local election official to subtract permanent vote by mail voters from the total number of voters when creating election precincts, as specified.
Chapter 111, Statutes of 2010

SB 1346 (Hancock-D) Instant runoff elections
Authorizes county election officials to use an instant runoff voting method for elections that are held to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Representative in Congress, State Senator, or Member of the Assembly.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2732 (Eng-D) which died in Senate Elections and Redistricting Committee.

SB 1404 (Pavley-D) Elections: ballot cards and voting systems
Requires a voting system vendor that knows of, or becomes aware of, a defect, fault, or failure with a voting system or a fault of the voting system, to notify the Secretary of State and all local election officials who use the system of that defect, fault or failure only to the extent that the specific issue could impact future voting or tallying of an election.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2010

SB 1434 (Price-D) Voter registration
Provides that if an affiant of voter registration fails to identify his/her place of birth, the county elections official shall apply a rebuttable presumption that the affiant is eligible to register to vote if he/she marked the box on the affidavit of registration, executed under penalty of perjury, that he/she is a citizen of the United States.
Vetoed

SCA 10 (Ducheny-D) Initiative measures: legislative amendment
Requires the Secretary of State to transmit qualified initiatives to the Legislature for review and recommendation prior to being placed before the voters.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

SCA 14 (Ducheny-D) Initiative measures: funding source
Prohibits an initiative measure that will result in a net increase in state or local government costs from being submitted to the electors or having any effect unless and until the Legislative Analyst and the Director of the Department of Finance jointly determine that the initiative measure provides for additional revenues in an amount that meets or exceeds the net increase in costs.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

SCA 16 (DeSaulnier-D) Indirect initiatives
Provides an alternate to the initiative process by authorizing a measure to qualify with less signatures, providing that the measure be reviewed by the Legislature prior to its being placed on the ballot.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 46 (Monning-D) Elections: official canvass: Senate District 15
Permits the counties of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara to conduct separate post-election manual tallies of one percent of the polling place ballots and the mailed ballots for the June 8 statewide primary election as well as the special primary and run-off elections to fill the vacancy in Senate District 15.
Chapter 28, Statutes of 2010

AB 106 (Price-D) Elections: voter registration
Allows a person to register to vote when they apply for a new or renewed driver's license, state identification card, instruction permit, junior permit, or files a personal income tax return.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 257 (Adams-R) Elections: reporting irregularities
Requires the Secretary of State to establish a uniform format that county elections officials will use to report election incidents and voting irregularities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 319 (Niello-R) Elections: ballot titles
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to prepare the title and summary for state initiatives and referenda, the fiscal estimates for proposed state initiative measures, and the ballot titles for state measurers that will appear on the ballot. Makes the bill contingent upon the approval of ACA 20 (Niello-R).
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 419 (Caballero-D) Elections: local boundary changes
Requires a local agency formation commission to also notify the local elections official when it notifies a county board of supervisors of city council regarding the need to hold a boundary change election.
Chapter 35, Statutes of 2010

AB 491 (Garrick-R) Political signs: vandalism
Establishes a $1,000 fine for knowingly destroying a campaign sign.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 496* (Davis-D) Elections: payment of expenses
Requires the state to reimburse counties for the costs of special elections to fill vacancies of State Senator, Member of the Assembly, United States Senator, or Representative in Congress.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 624 (Monning-D) Election precincts
Allows a local elections official to subtract permanent vote by mail votes from the total of an election precinct.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 780 (John Perez-D) Elections: failsafe ballots
Allows a voter who is away from his/her precinct on election day, due to unforeseen circumstances, to cast a provisions ballot in a jurisdiction other than where the voter resides.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 814 (Hill-D) Elections: ballots: notification
Requires county elections officials to provide voters with a notification that the voter should receive a voter information guide containing detailed information on the candidates and measures that will be on the ballot for the election.
Vetoed

AB 895 (Furutani-D) Elections: primary election ballots
Requires an elections official to provide a sufficient number of ballots of each qualified political party in each precinct to reasonably meet the needs of the voters not registered as intending to affiliate with any one of the political parties participating in the election who request a partisan ballot.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1133 (Niello-R) Gifts for voting
Makes it a felony punishable by 16 months, two or three years in the state prison for a person to offer, give, or receive money or other valuable consideration in exchange for voting or registering to vote, or as an inducement for voting or registering to vote.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1278 (Harkey-R) Elections: initiatives
Requires the Legislative Analyst to include additional information in the ballot pamphlet for an election for each state initiative measure that proposes the issuance of a state bond.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1308 (Hagman-R) Elections: registration
Prohibits a person who is on probation for conviction of a felony from voting.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1335 (Lieu-D) Elections: write-in candidates
Requires write-in candidates for the office of superior court judge to include on their statements of write-in candidacy, a statement that they satisfy the eligibility requirements for a judge.
Vetoed

AB 1340 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Special absentee voters
Allows special absentee voters to have their ballot counted if it is postmarked on or before election day and received by the county elections official on or before the sixth day after the election. Requires counties to report to the Secretary of State on the number of absentee ballots received, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1356 (Bill Berryhill-R) Elections: proof of identification
Requires a voter to present photo identification before receiving a ballot at the polling place.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1415 (Adams-R) Elections: voting procedures
Prohibits a person who is on probation for the conviction of a felony from registering to vote. Requires a voter who is returning a vote by mail ballot to provide the last four digits of his/her California's driver's license number or California identification card number or, if the voter has neither, the last four digits of his/her social security number on the vote by mail ballot identification envelope. Requires a voter to present proof of identification prior to receiving a ballot at the polls on election day.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1424 (Knight-R) Elections: vote by mail
Requires a completed vote by mail ballot identification envelope to contain the last four digits of the voter's California driver's license number, identification card number, or social security number in order for that ballot to be counted.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1519 (De La Torre-D) Elections: vote by mail ballots
Requires elections officials to include a business reply envelope for vote by mail voters to return their completed vote by mail ballots. Establishes a State Vote by Mail Postage Fund for deposit of any General Fund monies appropriated by the Legislature to fund the provision of business reply envelopes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1531 (Portantino-D) Elections: one-stop voting
Establishes one-stop voting to enable a person to register to vote and immediately vote a ballot at any office of a county elections official.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1140 (Yee-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 1619* (Assembly Budget Committee) Elections: ACA 4 or SCA 10
Places SCA 10 (Ashburn-R) or ACA 4 (Feuer-D) which relates to budget reform on the March 2012 presidential primary election ballot. Additionally specifies the ballot title and the ballot summary for the measure. The ballot title would read: STATE BUDGET. CHANGES CALIFORNIA BUDGET PROCESS. LIMITS STATE SPENDING. INCREASES 'RAINY DAY' BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 859 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee) which died on the Assembly Floor.

AB 1668 (Knight-R) Special elections: city councils
Extends, from 30 to 90 days, the time for a city council to fill a vacancy by either appointing a replacement or calling a special election.
Chapter 38, Statutes of 2010

AB 1676* (Fuentes-D) Elected officials: residency requirements
Prohibits a person elected to a nonjudicial office for a county, city, or school district, from moving outside the jurisdiction that he/she represents during his/her term of office, as specified.
(Died in Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 1681 (Yamada-D) All-mailed ballot elections: Yolo County
Creates a pilot program allowing Yolo County to conduct not more than three local elections as all-mailed ballot elections.
Vetoed

AB 1689 (Torres-D) Elections: Democratic Party
Aligns provisions of state law governing the selection governing the selection of delegates and alternates to represent the state at a National Convention of the Democratic Party with the standing rules and bylaws of the Democratic National Committee.
Chapter 190, Statutes of 2010

AB 1717 (De Leon-D) Election material
Provides that county and city elections officials may establish procedures designed to permit a voter to opt out of receiving his/her sample ballot, voter pamphlet, notice of polling place, and associated materials by mail and instead receive them electronically by electronic mail or on the county's or city's Internet Web site.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2010

AB 1769* (Tran-R) Special elections
Requires the state to reimburse counties for the costs of all special elections held during 2009 and 2010 to fill vacancies in the State Assembly, State Senate, and United States Congress.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1799 (Fong-D) Voting: replacement ballots
Removes a requirement that a vote by mail voter who requests a replacement ballot must provide a statement under penalty of perjury that he/she has failed to receive, lost, or destroyed the original ballot in order to receive a replacement ballot. Requires the elections official to verify that a replacement ballot will not be counted if a voted original ballot is received.
Vetoed

AB 1832 (Saldana-D) Initiatives
Incrementally increases the fee that proponents of an initiative measure are required to pay at the time of submitting the draft of the measure to the Attorney General from $200 to $2,000. Establishes the following fee schedule: $500 beginning in 2011, $1,000 beginning in 2013, $1,500 beginning in 2015, and $2,000 beginning in 2017.
Vetoed

AB 1968 (Niello-R) Initiatives and referenda: Legislative Analyst
Provides the Legislative Analyst's Office with exclusive responsibilities with regard to state initiatives and referenda, and modifies the time allowed for preparing the title and summary and fiscal estimate for proposed initiative measures.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2023 (Saldana-D) Election results
Authorizes the Secretary of State to conduct a voluntary pilot program in five or more counties evaluating the use of post-canvas "risk-limiting" audits of election results.
Chapter 122, Statutes of 2010

AB 2088 (Adams-R) Recall elections
Establishes a process for filling a vacancy in an office that occurs after a recall petition has been filed against the vacating officer.
Vetoed

AB 2101 (Lieu-D) Elections: prohibiting payments
Authorizes a court, upon finding a person guilty of engaging in prohibited voter registration activities, to order, as a condition of probation, that the person be prohibited from receiving money or other consideration for assisting another person to register to vote. Authorizes a court, upon finding a person guilty of violating provisions of law making certain activities relating to the circulation of an initiative, referendum, or recall petition a criminal offense.
Chapter 372, Statutes of 2010

AB 2154 (Solorio-D) Vote by mail ballots: telephone applications
Allows a local elections official to offer a voter the ability to apply for a vote by mail voter's ballot by telephone. Requires a telephone applicant for a vote by mail voter's ballot to provide specified information to the elections official.
Vetoed

AB 2169 (Gilmore-R) Voter registration: eligibility
Specifies that, for purposes of being eligible to register to vote and all other purposes of the Elections Code, "in prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony" includes incarceration in a county jail, or other alternative sentence, resulting from a felony conviction.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 2330* (Arambula-IN) California Voting Rights Act
Prohibits a voter from bringing an action against a county office of education, a school district or a community college for an alleged violation of the California Voting Rights Act of 2001, unless the voter has first presented a written claim to the office or district. Eliminates the ability of a voter to recover attorney's fees and litigation costs if the office or district accepts the voter's claim.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2369 (Block-D) Elections: ballots
Repeals the 2011 sunset on provisions allowing absentee voters temporarily living outside the United States to return their ballots to elections officials by facsimile transmission.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 2010

AB 2371 (Anderson-R) Secretary of State: voter registration fraud
Requires the Secretary of State, upon receiving a written complaint alleging a violation of the Elections Code, to acknowledge in writing receipt of the complaint to the person who made the complaint within 21 days of its receipt.
Vetoed

AB 2467 (Monning-D) Elections: vote by mail
Deletes the requirement that an electronic vote by mail application include the date the application must be received by the elections officials. Requires an electronic application for a vote by mail ballot to inform the voter that the application for the vote by mail ballot must be received by the elections official not later than seven days prior to the date of the election.
Chapter 683, Statutes of 2010

AB 2524 (Evans-D) Elections: initiative measures
Requires the Attorney General to submit a copy of the text of a proposed initiative measure to the Secretary of State for posting on the Secretary of State's Internet Web site for 30 days to facilitate public comment on the measure.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2616 (Hill-D) Elections: vote by mail ballots
Requires the county elections official to a permit vote by mail voter to find out whether his/her ballot was counted and if not, identify the reason why through the use of the county elections division Internet Web site or via a toll-free telephone number.
Vetoed

AB 2642 (Nestande-R) Elections: vote by mail ballots
Requires elections officials to count vote by mail ballots that are postmarked on or before election day that are delivered after the close of the polls as long as the county has not certified the election.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2732 (Eng-D) Special elections: instant runoff voting
Allows counties to choose to use instant runoff voting for special elections held to fill vacancies in the State Legislature and United States Congress.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1346 (Hancock-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 2796 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Elections: ballot measures
Repeals a requirement that a member or members of a school board must be authorized by the board in order to file a written argument for or against any school measure. Makes a corresponding change to a provision of law that governs the priority order that elections officials follow if multiple ballot arguments are submitted in support of or in opposition to a school measure. Makes a technical change to a provision of law that governs the priority order that elections officials follow if multiple ballot arguments are submitted in support of or in opposition to a county measure.
Chapter 401, Statutes of 2010

AB 2797 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Elections: voter registration and ballots
Makes various changes in the existing law governing elections as follows: (1) moves back the deadline for a county to submit claims for reimbursement for costs incurred by the county in complying with various voter registration laws from October 31 to February 15 in the year following the fiscal year in which the costs were incurred; (2) provides that in cases where a precinct board is required to post the results of ballots cast on a voting machine at the precinct, the precinct board shall not do so with respect to any machine on which fewer than 10 voters cast ballots, in order to protect the secrecy of those voters' ballots; and (3) provides that if a precinct board tallies votes manually at the polling place and fewer than 10 voters cast ballots at that polling place, the precinct board shall post only the total number of people who voted at the precinct instead of posting the results of ballots cast at that precinct.
Chapter 402, Statutes of 2010

ACA 2 (Furutani-D) Elections: voting age
Allows a person who is 17 years old and who will be 18 years old at the time of the next general election to register and vote in that general election and in any intervening primary or special election that occurs after the person registers to vote.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

ACA 3 (Blakeslee-R) Initiatives: bond funding source
Prohibits any initiative authorizing general obligation bonds in an amount exceeding $1 billion unless the measure expressly provides for additional tax or fee revenues and/or the elimination of existing programs to fully fund repayment of the bonds, as determined by the Legislative Analyst. The new revenue source or programs eliminated must be clearly identified in the initiative title and summary.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

ACA 5 (Charles Calderon-D) Initiatives: state general obligation bonds
Requires an initiative measure that authorizes the issuance of state general obligation bonds to be approved by at least 55 percent of the voters who vote on the measure.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

ACA 13 (Hernandez-D) Indirect initiative process
Establishes an indirect initiative process.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 14 (Hernandez-D) Elections: initiative measures
Prohibits more than five initiative measures from appearing on the ballot at any statewide election.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

ACA 20 (Niello-R) Elections: initiatives and referenda
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office, instead of the Attorney General, to prepare the title and summary for state initiatives and referenda.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

ACA 21 (Charles Calderon-D) Initiatives: constitutional amendments
Allows the Legislature, by a bill passed by a majority of the membership of each house and enacted into law in the same manner as any other bill, to propose an amendment to any provision of the California Constitution that was added to amended by an initiative measure on or after the effective date of this measure, and allows the Legislature to amend or withdraw its proposal in the same manner.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 26 (Charles Calderon-D) Initiatives: vote requirements
Amends the California Constitution to provide that a proposed initiative statute that authorizes the Legislature to amend that initiative statute without voter approval by the electors may become effective only if approved by the electors by no less than the same percentage of the vote as would be required by the language in that proposed initiative statute for the Legislature to amend it without voter approval.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

AJR 36 (Fong-D) Voter registration
Urges the United States Congress and the President of the United States to enact the Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2009.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

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