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SB 130 (Battin-R) Fair Political Practices Commission
Requires the members of the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), other than the chairman, to be compensated at the same rate as the members of the California Medical Assistance Commission. Requires the Chairman of the FPPC to work full time in that capacity and the remaining members to work part time in their capacities.
(In Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 131 (Battin-R) Fair Political Practices Commission
Requires that any communications between the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) and an alleged violator regarding resolution of a violation must be treated by the FPPC as confidential and shall not be disclosed to a third party. Provides, however, that a stipulated order approved by the FPPC may be released to the public.
(In Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 217 (Cogdill-R) Political Reform Act of 1974: conflict-of-interest codes
Transfers the responsibility for reviewing the conflict-of-interest codes of non-county local agencies that are related to education from county boards of supervisors to other government entities, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 298* (Cogdill-R) Political Reform Act: contributions
Increases the amount of campaign contributions that a person or combination of persons must make in a calendar year in order to be considered a committee from $10,000 to $25,000. Increases, from $5,000 to $15,000, the amount of campaign contributions that a candidate or committee must receive from a person before that candidate or committee is required to inform the person that he or she may be required to file campaign reports.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 381 (Calderon-D) Campaign contributions
Increases, from $5,000 to $7,000, the threshold at which an elected officer must report such payments, and requires an inflation adjustment to this threshold biennially, increases, from 30 days to 90 days, the amount of time that an elected officer has to report such payments, exempts these payments from the reporting requirement if made by a local, state, or federal government agency, or if a payment is made in response to a press release or public service announcement, and specifies that an elected officer is only required to report such payments if the elected officer knows, or has reason to know, that a payment was made at his or her behest.
(Held at Assembly Desk)

SB 497 (Ackerman-R) Political Reform Act of 1974: conflict of interest
Allows a local filing officer to permit or to require public officers, candidates for office, and employees to file statements disclosing their investments, interests in real property, and other sources of economic interests electronically in accordance with regulations to be adopted by the Fair Political Practices Commission and requirements established by the local filing officer.
(In Senate Election, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 512 (Senate Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments Committee) Political Reform Act of 1974: elections
Modifies the definition of "investment," for the purposes of the Political Reform Act, to exclude any interest in a government defined-benefit pension plan. Requires every candidate for an elective office that is designated in an agency's conflict of interest code to file a Statement of Economic Interests (SEI) when that candidate files a declaration of candidacy. Requires the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) to forward a copy of any SEI filed by a member of the Legislature or the Board of Equalization (BOE), or by a candidate for the Legislature or BOE, to the elections official of the county that contains the largest percentage of registered voters in the district of the officeholder or candidate, instead of to the clerk of that county, and requires the elections official to retain that copy.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2007

SB 536 (Simitian-D) Political Reform Act of 1974
Enacts the Insurance Commissioner Election Accountability Act of 2007 which authorizes eligible Insurance Commissioner candidates, as defined, to obtain public financing from a fund made up of fees collected from insurers, reimbursements, and interest according to specified procedures and requirements, provided that certain thresholds of public support are shown.
(In Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

SB 662 (Wiggins-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: conflict of interest codes
Designates the county board of education, instead of the county board of supervisors, as the conflict of interest code reviewing body for a school district other than a school district in a county with only one school district, a joint powers authority composed of school districts or other educational agencies, or a regional occupational center or program, if the district, joint powers authority, or regional center or program has jurisdiction wholly within a single county.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCA 9 (Ashburn-R) Political reform
Creates an independent citizens commission to draw legislative and Board of Equalization districts, modifies term limits, revises campaign contributions, prohibits the Legislature from being paid if the Budget Bill is not passed by July 1, and provides for greater oversight of the Legislature by the public.
(At Assembly Desk)

AB 65* (Dymally-D) The Political Reform Act of 1974: legislative caucuses
Allows a member of the Senate or Assembly to make expenditures of campaign funds to recognized legislative caucuses. Defines a "recognized legislative caucus" as a group of Assembly Members, Senators, or both Assembly Members and Senators that is organized to pursue its collective interests in legislative action through the legislative process, and that is recognized by the passage of a House Resolution (in the case of a caucus that has only Assembly Members), a Senate Resolution (in the case of a caucus that has only Senators), or a concurrent resolution (in the case of a caucus that has both Assembly Members and Senators). Provides that a caucus is not a committee for the purposes of the Political Reform Act.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 78 (Torrico-D) Political Reform Act of 1974
Requires every candidate-controlled committee to either pay $5,000 to the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) no later than 90 days after the election for which the committee is formed, or remit to the state, at least quarterly, the interest on the average daily balance in its financial accounts. Requires monies received to be deposited into the newly established Interest for Fair Political Practices Account (IFPPA), and continuously appropriates these funds to the FPPC for regulatory provisions of the Political Reform Act (PRA) related to the impact on elections and government operations of political contributions, gifts, and expenditures. Requires monies received from committee accounts containing only contributions related to ballot propositions be deposited in the newly established IFPPA Fair Election Practices Subaccount, and continuously appropriates monies in the subaccount to the FPPC for those provisions of the PRA that regulate electoral and campaign processes relating to ballot propositions.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 108 (Benoit-R) Political Reform Act of 1974
Requires in the case of a candidate for elective state office who is simultaneously running for a local elective office, that contributions to all committees controlled by the candidate be aggregated and that those contributions may not exceed the applicable elective state office limits. Provides an exception for those committees whose primary activity is the support or opposition of one or more ballot measures, committees established for a candidate's legal defense account, and officeholder accounts.
(In Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 357 (Mendoza-D) Legal defense funds
Permits a candidate for elective state office to establish a separate account, which is not subject to contribution limits, to defray attorney's fees and other costs incurred in election recounts and election contests. Provides that expenditures for attorney's fees or other costs incurred in election recounts or election contests do not count as expenditures towards the voluntary expenditure limits for candidates running for elective state office.
(In Senate Elections, Reapportionment, and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 404 (Ruskin-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: disclosure
Requires that an advertisement supporting or opposing a candidate that is paid for by an independent expenditure must include a statement that it was not authorized by a candidate or a committee controlled by a candidate. Provides that if the communication is printed, the disclosure statement must be clearly and legibly printed in no less than 10-point type. Provides that if the communication is broadcast, the disclosure statement must be spoken so as to be clearly audible and understood by the intended public.
Chapter 495, Statutes of 2007

AB 473 (Adams-R) Political Reform Act of 1974: filing campaign statements
Reduces the number of copies of campaign statements that committees must file.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2007

AB 517 (Horton-R) Political Reform Act of 1974: elective state office
Prohibits a candidate for elective state office from soliciting or receiving a contribution during the last 30 days that the Legislature is in session in a given year or during a special session convened during the interim recess.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 583 (Hancock-D) California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2007
Creates a pilot project whereby candidates for Governor, for an unspecified Senate District, and for an unspecified Assembly District will be eligible to receive public campaign funds for the 2010 election, if they agree not to accept most private contributions and if they collect a specified number of $5 contributions.
(In Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 1361 (Karnette-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: civil actions
Limits to 50 the number of civil actions that an individual may file within a 12-month period to enforce certain provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1369 (Adams-R) Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign statements: Internet
Amends the Political Reform Act to require city and county clerks who, under current law, file campaign statements and other related documents for local elections to make these documents available on the Internet.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1430 (Garrick-R) Political Reform Act of 1974: contribution limitations
Prohibits local governments from adopting campaign finance ordinances that restrict communications between an organization and its members unless state law similarly restricts such communications or by regulation by the Fair Political Practices Commission.
Chapter 708, Statutes of 2007

AB 1441 (Garrick-R) Political Reform Act of 1974: legal defense
Allows candidates for local elective office and local elected officials to establish legal defense funds.
Chapter 283, Statutes of 2007

AB 1682 (Benoit-R) Political Reform Act: State Compensation Insurance Fund
Specifies that the governance of the State Compensation Insurance Fund is subject to the Political Reform Act of 1974.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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SB 37 (Migden-D) Electoral college: interstate compact
Ratifies an interstate compact whereby the state agrees to award its electoral votes to the Presidential ticket that received the most popular votes nationwide, if certain conditions are met. Ratifies the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 113 (Calderon-D) Elections: Presidential primary elections
Requires that the Presidential primary be held on the first Tuesday in February in any year evenly divisible by four. Provides that there will still be a June primary for other state offices in those years. States legislative intent to fully reimburse counties for costs resulting from the presidential primary elections added by the bill in an expeditious manner upon certification of those costs.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2007

SB 173 (Harman-R) Elections: voting identification
Requires a voter to present proof of his/her identity to a member of the precinct board before receiving a ballot.
(In Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 217 (Cogdill-R) Political Reform Act of 1974: conflict-of-interest code
Transfers the responsibility for reviewing the conflict-of-interest codes of non-county local agencies that are related to education from county boards of supervisors to other government entities as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 293 (Ackerman-R) Presidential nominees
Requires the Chairperson of the Republican State Central Committee to indicate the apparent nominees for President and Vice President to the Secretary of State (SOS), if the Republican National Convention concludes after the deadline for the SOS to deliver certificates of nomination to local elections officials.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2007

SB 382 (Oropeza-D) Elections: new citizens
Allows individuals who become citizens after the voter registration deadline to register and vote until the close of polls on election day. Specifically, it (1) defines a "new citizen" as an individual who becomes a United States citizen after the 15th day prior to an election; and (2) allows a new citizen, as defined, to register and vote until the close of polls on election day at locations designated by the county elections official following the date on which that person becomes a citizen.
Vetoed

SB 408 (Oropeza-D) State measures: circulators
Provides that a person may not circulate an initiative or referendum petition unless that person is registered to vote or was eligible to register to vote in the relevant jurisdiction at the time of the most recent established election date. Requires the declaration on an initiative or referendum petition that is completed by the circulator of the petition to contain the length or period of time that the circulator's residence address has been used as a residence if the petition that is submitted to the election official is a statewide initiative or referendum.
Vetoed

SB 439 (Calderon-D) Write-in candidates
Provides that, in the event of a manual recount, provisions of law governing the counting of write-in votes shall be liberally construed to ensure that each ballot is counted if the intent of the voter can be determined, regardless of whether the voting instructions have been literally complied with.
Vetoed

SB 448 (Margett-R) Election procedures
Prohibits a place that is the residence of a registered sex offender, as described, from being used as a polling place, and prohibits a registered sex offender from working in any capacity at the polls.
(In Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 484* (Lowenthal-D) Recall and special elections: City of Lynwood
Requires any recall or special election held in the City of Lynwood during the 2007 and 2008 calendar years to be administered by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, subject to approval by the Board of Supervisors. Requires the City of Lynwood, consistent with a specified provision of state law, to pay the County of Los Angeles, from the city treasury, for any expenses authorized and necessarily incurred in conducting any recall or special election held in the City of Lynwood. Provides a procedure under which the State Controller reallocates to the county amounts otherwise scheduled for distribution to the city from unrestricted funds or moneys, as specified.
Chapter 126, Statutes of 2007

SB 513 (Senate Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments Committee) Voting and district referenda
Deletes the definition of "demonstrator" from the Elections Code relative to voting machines. Requires that district referenda petitions conform to current requirements of other jurisdictions' referenda petitions by including a copy of the targeted ordinance being referended.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 2007

SB 653 (Calderon-D) False or misleading information: penalties
Makes it a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, two or three years, for every person who acts under color of law and who knowingly or with reckless disregard for the truth provides, distributes, produces, disseminates, sponsors, authorizes, or finances the provision, distribution, or dissemination of any false or misleading information regarding either the time, place, or manner of any election, or the qualifications for, or restrictions on, voter eligibility for any election, as specified.
(In Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 768 (Corbett-D) Misuse of voter registration information
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a voter registration affiant's driver's license, identification card number, and social security number are confidential and makes it an infraction for any person, individual, or organization to knowingly disclose this information from an affidavit of registration or a voter registration card that was distributed to a voter or entrusted by the elector to another person.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 2007

SB 813 (Wiggins-D) Elections: death of a candidate
Clarifies that Section 8026 of the Election Code, which cancels, or renders null and void, a primary election where the incumbent has only one challenger and one of them dies prior to the primary, applies only to a primary election and not a runoff election.
Chapter 97, Statutes of 2007

SB 854 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Voter registration: students
Requires every California Community College (CCC) and California State University (CSU) campus that operates an automated class registration system, on or before 1/1/08, to provide an automated program by 1/1/10, operated in coordination with the Secretary of State (SOS), that will permit students to elect, during the class registration process, to receive a preprinted voter registration form containing their personal information. Requires any CCC or CSU campus that does not operate an automated class registration system on or before 1/1/08 to comply with the provisions of this bill within two years of implementing an automated class registration system through an automated program in coordination with the SOS that will permit students to elect to request preprinted voter registration materials during class registration. Encourages the University of California to provide an automated voter registration program.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2007

SB 924 (Perata-D) Iraq war: advisory election
Places before the voters, in the presidential primary election on 2/5/08, an advisory question asking whether the President, in support of the men and women serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, should end the United States occupation of Iraq and achieve the immediate, complete, safe, and orderly withdrawal of United States Forces, and whether the President and the Congress should provide the necessary diplomatic and nonmilitary assistance to promote peace and stability in Iraq and the Middle East.
Vetoed

SB 967 (Simitian-D) Election precincts
Permits an elections official to subtract the number of permanent absentee voters from the total number of voters when creating precincts.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 9 (Huff-R) Voter identification: proof of identity
Requires a person who desires to vote in person at a polling place to present proof of identity to a member of the precinct board at the time of voting. Requires a precinct board member to visually confirm the photograph and signature of the person desiring to vote and to record in the roster of voters the identifying number and the form of identification presented. Provides that any violation or attempted violation of the identification requirement shall constitute fraud, a felony punishable by imprisonment for 16 months, two or three years. Permits a voter, who desires to vote in person, to vote a provisional ballot if he/she is unable to present one of the forms of photo identification required, and requires such a voter to provide valid photo identification to the county registrar of voters within five business days of voting.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 18 (Blakeslee-R) Elections: signature stamps: authorized users
Enacts the Warren Mattingly Signature Stamp Act. Permits a disabled person who is unable to provide a handwritten signature to use a signature stamp for situations when the Elections Code requires a signature. Specifies the user must be an "authorized person," as defined, and provide valid identification. Specifies that the use of a signature stamp is in addition to existing law allowing use of a mark instead of a handwritten signature.
Chapter 485, Statutes of 2007

AB 44 (Mendoza-D) Absentee voters: ballot materials
Requires all voter registration cards to contain a box that a registrant can check to become a permanent absentee voter, and requires ballots that are sent to absentee voters be accompanied by a sample ballot or a voter's pamphlet that contains candidates' statements. Double-jointed with AB 1243 (Karnette).
Vetoed

AB 46 (Tran-R) Elections: right to vote
Increases the punishment from an alternate felony/misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in the county jail, or by 16 months, two, or three years in state prison, to a felony punishable by 16 months, two, or three years in state prison for any person who knowingly challenges a person's right to vote without probable cause or on fraudulent or spurious grounds, engages in mass, indiscriminate, and groundless challenging of voters solely for the purpose of preventing voters from voting or delaying the process of voting, fraudulently advises any person that he/she is not eligible to vote or is not registered, or violates any of the statutory conditions regarding an oral challenge to a person attempting to vote on election day.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 119* (Price-D) Elections: payment of expenses
Restores, effective 1/1/07, the Elections Code that had required that all expenses authorized and necessarily incurred in the preparation for, and conduct of, elections be paid from the county treasuries, except when an election is called by the governing body of a city.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2007

AB 122 (Solorio-D) Voter intimidation: candidate notification
Requires elections officials to provide a copy of the provisions of law prohibiting voter intimidation and voter fraud, and the penalties for violating those provisions, to an individual at the time they are issued their declaration of candidacy or nomination paper . Requires the Secretary of State to provide to elections officials copies of the materials to be distributed in quantities and at times requested by the elections officials.
Vetoed

AB 157 (Plescia-R) Elections: Presidential primary elections
Requires that the Presidential primary election be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in February in any year evenly divisible by the number four, and provides that the February Presidential primary not be consolidated with the statewide direct primary election.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 183 (Coto-D) Voter registration: high school students
Requires every school district with at least one high school to provide information, beginning with the 2009-10 school year and annually thereafter, on all of the voter registration efforts allowed in existing law. Requires affected school districts to publish the efforts prominently and annually on the Internet web site of each of its high schools and in parent newsletters or other communication vehicles used within the school community.
Vetoed

AB 223 (Sharon Runner-R) Absentee voting: military service
Allows voters called away to military service to be considered special absentee voters and to submit their absentee ballot by fax or by e-mail. Provides a person called away for military service a process by which they can receive an absent voter's ballot after the normal deadline for requesting an absentee ballot.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2007

AB 288 (Price-D) Voter intimidation: Voter Intimidation Restitution Fund
Provides that, in addition to any other fine or penalty provided for by law, every person convicted of violating any of a number of provisions of state law prohibiting voter intimidation may be required to pay a restitution fine, to be determined by the court, and commensurate with the seriousness of the offense. Requires monies derived from any such restitution fines to be deposited into the Voter Intimidation Restitution Fund (VIRF). Establishes the VIRF in the State Treasury, and provides that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, funds in VIRF shall be allocated to the Secretary of State to be used in voter education campaigns addressing the specific crime committed by a person convicted of voter intimidation. Allows funds in the VIRF to be used for the administrative costs associated with distribution of the VIRF.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2007

AB 332 (DeVore-R) Elections: recall petitions: signature certification
Provides that Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays are to be excluded when calculating the 30-day period that elections officials have to validate the number of signatures on a local recall petition.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2007

AB 355 (Price-D) Elections: voter registration: provisional ballots
Permits a person who qualifies to vote under state law, and can provide proof of current residence pursuant to regulations to be adopted by the Secretary of State, to cast a ballot at their precinct or at the office of the county elections official in the same manner as a person who was registered to vote prior to election day.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 452 (Arambula-D) Voter registration
Changes the current voter notification card to also inform voters of any change in their personal party affiliation upon re-registration and allows that there are specific procedures to address complaints related to voter registration.
Chapter 316, Statutes of 2007

AB 466 (Hancock-D) Pupils: average daily attendance
Deems a student serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be participating in independent studies for calculating a school district's average daily attendance for funding purposes.
Vetoed

AB 603 (Price-D) Voter registration: confidentiality
Extends the repeal date of the voter registration provisions of the existing Safe At Home program that protects the addresses of specified individuals. Extends the repeal date from 1/1/08 to 1/1/13.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2007

AB 614 (Eng-D) Voting rights: language assistance
Requires counties to report to the Secretary of State on their compliance with various state and federal laws related to providing voters with language assistance.
Vetoed

AB 643 (Brownley-D) Absentee ballots
Requires the Secretary of State to report to the Legislature, by 9/1/09, on the process of creating absentee ballots, as well as any recommended changes to that process.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 773 (Blakeslee-R) Elections: absentee ballots
Allows absentee voters to return their ballots to any polling place within the state, not just the one within the jurisdiction of the elections officials who issued the ballot. Provides that if an absentee ballot is returned to a polling place in a county other than the county where the ballot was issued, the elections official responsible for the polling place must deliver the ballot to the elections official who issued the ballot.
Vetoed

AB 852 (Krekorian-D) Elections: voting systems
Enacts the Secure, Accurate, Fair Elections Act prohibiting the Secretary of State from approving a voting system unless the details of its operating system and specifications are publicly disclosed.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 917 (Salas-D) Elections
Requires the elections official to deliver additional ballots to a precinct within two hours when a voter is unable to cast a vote due to an insufficient number of ballots. Requires every precinct to develop an alternate method of voting, approved by the Secretary of State, for voters who are waiting for the delivery of additional ballots. Requires every precinct to have paper ballots available to every state and federal election in the following percentages of registered voters for: (1) a statewide general election, at least 10% of the registered voters; (2) a state primary election, at least 5% of each partisan ballot; and (3) other state or federal elections, at least 5% of the registered voters. Allows every voter to be able to use a paper ballot upon request. Provides that the required paper ballots may include provisional ballots. Requires the Secretary of State to conduct parallel monitoring for each statewide election of every direct recording electronic voting system and requires the results to be made available prior to the certification of the election.
Chapter 501, Statutes of 2007

AB 943 (Charles Calderon-D) Initiative petitions
Requires that legislative committees which hold public hearings on proposed initiatives and referendums to hold these hearings on the subject of the measure at least 30 days prior to the measure's placement on the ballot.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 965 (Anderson-R) California Republican Party: organization
Provides that the Republican Party in California is the "California Republican Party" and revises rules relating to the Party's organization.
Chapter 60, Statutes of 2007

AB 970 (Levine-D) Election campaigns: candidates' debates
Requires the Secretary of State to create the California Gubernatorial Debate Commission to invite candidates for Governor to a series of three debates and hold those debates in selected locations, and to establish the rules and formats of each debate.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 984 (Price-D) Election precincts
Provides that a county elections official may subtract permanent absent voters from the total number of voters when complying with the requirement that the number of voters in a precinct may not exceed 1,000 on the 88th day prior to the day of the election when precinct boundaries are formed or changed.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1090 (Spitzer-R) Ballot designation requirements
Requires every candidate who submits a ballot designation when filing their declaration of candidacy to also file a ballot designation worksheet, in a format prescribed by the Secretary of State, supporting the use of the candidate's ballot designation. Requires elections officials to check the ballot designation worksheet for conformance with existing restrictions on ballot designations and to maintain a copy of the worksheet for the same time period as required of a candidate's nomination documents.
Chapter 505, Statutes of 2007

AB 1151 (Lieu-D) Voter registration
Requires elections officials to establish procedures to track and confirm the receipt of affidavits of registration.
Vetoed

AB 1167 (Nava-D) Absentee ballots: voting by mail
Requires the county elections official to negotiate with the United States Postal Service to ensure that all absentee ballots will be delivered to the elections official regardless of whether sufficient postage is provided.
Vetoed

AB 1243 (Karnette-D) Vote by mail voters
Changes the terminology used to refer to a voter who chooses to vote by mail from an "absentee voter" to a "vote by mail voter."
Chapter 508, Statutes of 2007

AB 1273* (Leno-D) State claims
Appropriates $2.5 million from various funds to pay claims against the state as approved by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
Chapter 509, Statutes of 2007

AB 1287 (Jeffries-R) Absentee voting
Provides that when a county emergency or disaster is declared, elections officials are required to provide notice of satellite locations no later than 48 hours prior to voting at satellite locations.
Chapter 63, Statutes of 2007

AB 1294 (Mullin-D) Ranked voting: local elections
Permits any city or county to conduct a local election using ranked voting.
Vetoed

AB 1320 (Carter-D) Pupil attendance: leadership and civic engagement activities
Deems a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election or engaging in other leadership or civic engagement activities to be participating in independent studies for the purpose of calculating a school district's average daily attendance for funding purposes.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1408 (Villines-R) Affidavits of registration: cancellation
Requires the superior court clerk, 32 days before every statewide election, to provide the county elections official with a statement showing information on persons who have been convicted of felonies and requires the elections official to cancel those individuals' names from the voter rolls.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1653 (Horton-R) Insurance Commissioner: election
Provides that the Office of Commissioner of the Department of Insurance shall be non-partisan. Requires these provisions to be submitted to the voters at the 6/3/08 statewide primary election.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1654 (Huffman-D) Mail ballot elections: statewide and local elections
Allows any local, special, primary, or general election to be conducted as an all-mailed ballot election.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

AB 1725 (Lieu-D) Evaluation of judicial candidates: disclosure
States that it is the intent of the Legislature that the ratings of persons appointed or nominated to a judicial office pursuant to Section 12011.5 of the Government Code shall be appropriately disclosed in order to promote public trust and confidence in the judicial branch.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1730 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Partisan Presidential primaries
Makes four technical non-substantive changes to provisions of the Elections Code governing the process for selecting delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1731 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Local elections
Repeals an obsolete provision of law that allows maximum property tax rate elections to be conducted wholly by mail and deletes obsolete references to Elections Code sections that have been repealed, relating to local elections.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2007

AB 1732 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Elections
Redefines the term elections official, as that term is used in the Elections Code, so that the definition does not include a governing board having jurisdiction over elections. Requires a referendum petition for a city ordinance to be submitted to the elections official of the legislative body of the city within 30 days of the date the adopted ordinance is attested by the city clerk or secretary to the legislative body. Prohibits a candidate statement submitted by a candidate for local nonpartisan elective office from making reference to other candidates for that office.
Chapter 125, Statutes of 2007

AB 1733 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Elections: park districts
Makes multiple minor and technical changes to provisions of state law governing park district elections.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2007

AB 1734 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Elections: record format
Requires records maintained by the county elections official indicating which political party's ballot was requested by a decline-to-state voter at a primary election be made available in an electronic format and provides that when county elections officials are required to send election results to the Secretary of State, those results must be submitted in an electronic format and in the manner requested.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2007

ACA 6 (Charles Calderon-D) Initiative measures: legislative review
Increases the signature threshold requirement from 5% to 10% in the case of an initiative amendment to the Constitution.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)

ACR 67 (Price-D) Voter Registration Month
Proclaims January 2008 to be Voter Registration Month.
Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2007

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SCA 9 (Ashburn-R) Term limits: reapportionment commission
Creates an independent citizens commission to draw legislative and Board of Equalization districts. Modifies term limits, revises campaign contributions, prohibits the Legislature from being paid if the Budget Bill is not passed by July 1, and provides for greater oversight of the Legislature by the public.
(Held at Assembly Desk)

SCA 10 (Lowenthal-D) Redistricting commission
Repeals apportionment by the Legislature, provisions of law, and provides for an independent redistricting commission composed of 11 members to reapportion congressional, Assembly, Senate, and Board of Equalization districts by February 28 of each year ending in the number one.
(At Assembly Desk)

ACA 1 (Price-D) Elections: redistricting
Requires redistricting of Assembly, Senate, congressional and Board of Equalization districts to be conducted in the year following the decennial census by the nine public members of the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACA 4 (Villines-R) Reapportionment
Increases the signature threshold requirement, from 5% to 10%, in the case of an initiative amendment to the Constitution.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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