Bill Text: CA AB459 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Electoral college: interstate compact. [Track Bill]

Status: 2011-08-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 188, Statutes of 2011. [AB459 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB459-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 459	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hill

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to amend Section 5100 of the Elections Code, relating to
primary elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 459, as introduced, Hill. Primary elections: party eligibility.

   Existing law specifies conditions under which a party is qualified
to participate in a primary election.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 5100 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   5100.  A party is qualified to participate in  any
  a  primary election under any of the following
conditions:
   (a) If at the last preceding gubernatorial election there was
polled for any one of its candidates for any office voted on
throughout the state, at least 2 percent of the entire vote of the
state.
   (b) If on or before the 135th day before any primary election, it
appears to the Secretary of State, as a result of examining and
totaling the statement of voters and their political affiliations
transmitted to him or her by the county elections officials, that
voters equal in number to at least 1 percent of the entire vote of
the state at the last preceding gubernatorial election have declared
their intention to affiliate with that party.
   (c) If on or before the 135th day before any primary election,
there is filed with the Secretary of State a petition signed by
voters, equal in number to at least 10 percent of the entire vote of
the state at the last preceding gubernatorial election, declaring
that they represent a proposed party, the name of which shall be
stated in the petition, which proposed party those voters desire to
have participate in that primary election. This petition shall be
circulated, signed,  and  verified  ,  and the
signatures of the voters on it shall be certified to and transmitted
to the Secretary of State by the county elections officials
substantially as provided for initiative petitions. Each page of the
petition shall bear a caption in 18-point boldface type, which
caption shall be the name of the proposed party followed by the words
"Petition to participate in the primary election."