Bill Text: CA AB938 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-25 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB938 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB938-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 938	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Sections 2101, 2106, and 2212 of the Elections
Code, relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 938, as introduced, Weber. Voting: felons: parolees.
   The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide
for the disqualification of electors while imprisoned or on parole
for the conviction of a felony. Existing statutory law specifies the
qualifications for registration as a voter and excludes from
eligibility a person who is in prison or on parole for the conviction
of a felony.
   Existing law establishes a program of postrelease community
supervision, under which certain persons who were convicted of a
felony, upon release from prison, may be subject to community
supervision provided by a designated county agency. Existing law also
establishes mandatory supervision, under which a person convicted of
a felony that is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail may
serve a concluding portion of his or her sentenced term under the
supervision of a county probation officer.
   This bill would provide that a person is excluded from voter
eligibility if he or she is in state prison or on state parole for
the conviction of a felony. This bill would specify that state parole
does not include a person on postrelease community supervision or
mandatory supervision.
   Under existing law, the county elections official is required to
cancel the voter registration of a person who is presently imprisoned
or on parole for conviction of a felony. The clerk of the superior
court of each county, on the basis of the records of the court, is
required to furnish to the chief elections official of the county a
statement showing the names, addresses, and dates of birth of all
persons who have been convicted of a felony since the clerk's last
report. The elections official is then required to cancel the
affidavits of registration of those persons who are currently
imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of a felony.
   This bill would specify that the court clerk's statement must
include only those convicted felons who have been sentenced to state
prison and would also specify that the county elections official
cancel the affidavit of registration of a person imprisoned or on
state parole for a felony conviction whose name, address, and date of
birth are the same as reported on the court clerk's statement.
   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 2101 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   2101.   (a)    A person entitled to register to
vote shall be a United States citizen, a resident of California, not
in  state  prison or on  state  parole for the
conviction of a felony, and at least 18 years of age at the time of
the next election. 
   (b) "State parole" does not include a person on postrelease
community supervision pursuant to Section 3451 of the Penal Code or
on mandatory supervision pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph
(5) of subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 2106 of the Elections Code, as enacted by Section
2 of Chapter 920 of the Statutes of 1994, is amended to read:
   2106.   Any   A  program adopted by a
county pursuant to Section 2103 or 2105, that is designed to
encourage the registration of electors, shall, with respect to any
printed literature or media announcements made in connection with
these programs, contain this statement: "A person entitled to
register to vote must be a United States citizen, a resident of
California, not in  state  prison or on  state 
parole for the conviction of a felony, and at least 18 years of age
at the time of the election."
  SEC. 3.  Section 2212 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   2212.  The clerk of the superior court of each county, on the
basis of the records of the court, shall furnish to the chief
elections official of the county, not less frequently than the first
day of April and the first day of September of each year, a statement
showing the  names, addresses,   name, address,
 and  dates   date of birth of
 all persons   each person  who 
have   has  been convicted of  felonies
  a felony and sentenced to state prison  since the
clerk's last report. The elections official shall, during the first
week of April and the first week of September in each year, cancel
the  affidavits   affidavit  of
registration of  those persons   each person
 who  are   is  currently imprisoned
or on  state  parole for the conviction of a felony 
whose name, address, and date of birth is the same as reported on the
court clerk's statement  . The clerk shall certify the
statement under the seal of the court.