Bill Text: CA SB518 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections: certification of results.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-07-05 - July 5 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB518 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB518-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 518

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Introduced by Senator Wilk

February 14, 2023

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An act to amend Section 15372 of the Elections Code, relating to elections.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 518, as introduced, Wilk. Elections: certification of results.

Existing law requires the canvass of an election to commence no later than the Thursday following the election and shall be continued daily, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays excepted, for not less than 6 hours each day until completed. Existing law requires the elections official to prepare a certified statement of the results of the election and submit that certified statement to the governing body within 30 days of the election, except as specified.

This bill would instead require the elections official to submit the certified statement of the results of the election on the 30th calendar day following the election. By increasing the duties of local elections officials relative to the days on which they would be required to certify election results, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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 the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 15372 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

15372.

 (a) The Notwithstanding Section 15301, the elections official shall prepare a certified statement of the results of the election and submit it to the governing body within 30 days of on the 30th calendar day following the election or, in election. In the case of school district, community college district, county board of education, or special district elections conducted on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of odd-numbered years, the elections official shall prepare and submit the certified statement of the results of the election to the governing body no later than the last Monday before the last Friday of that month.

(b) The elections official shall post the certified statement of the results of the election on his or her Internet Web site the official’s internet website in a downloadable spreadsheet format that may include, but is not limited to, a comma-separated values file or a tab-separated values file and that is compatible with a spreadsheet software application that is widely used at the time of the posting. The certified statement of the election results shall be posted and maintained on the elections official’s Internet Web site internet website for a period of at least 10 years following the election. This subdivision shall apply only to an elections official who uses a computer system that has the capability of producing the election results in a downloadable spreadsheet format without requiring modification of the computer system.

SEC. 2.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.