California Senate Bill 280

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Broadly Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on August 21 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-08-21 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 97, Statutes of 2025.
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

An act to add and repeal Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 8160) of Part 1 of Division 8 of the Elections Code, relating to elections, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

Elections.

Asm. Gail Pellerin [D]	Sen. Sabrina Cervantes [D]	Asm. Dawn Addis [D]	Asm. Cecilia Aguiar-Curry [D]
Asm. Patrick Ahrens [D]	Sen. Bob Archuleta [D]	Sen. Josh Becker [D]	Asm. Steve Bennett [D]
Asm. Marc Berman [D]	Asm. Blanca Rubio [D]	Asm. Isaac Bryan [D]	Sen. Christopher Cabaldon [D]
Sen. Anna Caballero [D]	Asm. Jessica Caloza [D]	Asm. Juan Carrillo [D]	Asm. Celeste Rodriguez [D]
Asm. Damon Connolly [D]	Sen. Dave Cortese [D]	Sen. Maria Durazo [D]	Asm. Sade Elhawary [D]
Asm. Mike Fong [D]	Asm. Robert Garcia [D]	Asm. Mike Gipson [D]	Sen. Lena Gonzalez [D]
Sen. Tim Grayson [D]	Asm. Matt Haney [D]	Asm. John Harabedian [D]	Asm. Corey Jackson [D]
Asm. Ash Kalra [D]	Sen. John Laird [D]	Sen. Monique Limon [D]	Asm. Josh Lowenthal [D]
Asm. Mark Gonzalez [D]	Sen. Mike McGuire [D]	Asm. Tina McKinnor [D]	Asm. Michelle Rodriguez [D]
Asm. Al Muratsuchi [D]	Asm. Stephanie Nguyen [D]	Asm. Liz Ortega [D]	Sen. Steve Padilla [D]
Sen. Sasha Renee Perez [D]	Asm. Sharon Quirk-Silva [D]	Asm. Rhodesia Ransom [D]	Sen. Eloise Reyes [D]
Asm. Robert Rivas [D]	Asm. Chris Rogers [D]	Asm. Catherine Stefani [D]	Sen. Henry Stern [D]
Sen. Tom Umberg [D]	Asm. Avelino Valencia [D]	Sen. Aisha Wahab [D]	Asm. Chris Ward [D]
Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson [D]	Asm. Buffy Wicks [D]	Sen. Scott Wiener [D]	Asm. Rick Zbur [D]
Asm. Anamarie Farias [D]

2025-08-21 - Assembly - SB 280 Cervantes Third Reading Urgency By Pellerin (Y: 57 N: 20 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-08-21 - Assembly - SB 280 Cervantes Third Reading Urgency By Pellerin Amend By TANGIPA Set #4 Motion to Lay on the Table By AGUIAR-CURRY (Y: 54 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2025-08-21 - Assembly - SB 280 Cervantes Third Reading Urgency By Pellerin Amend By GALLAGHER Set #3 Motion to Lay on the Table By AGUIAR-CURRY (Y: 56 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2025-08-21 - Assembly - SB 280 Cervantes Third Reading Urgency By Pellerin Amend By CASTILLO Set #1 Motion to Lay on the Table By AGUIAR-CURRY (Y: 56 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2025-08-21 - Assembly - SB 280 Cervantes Third Reading Urgency By Pellerin Amend By GALLAGHER Set #2 Motion to Lay on the Table By AGUIAR-CURRY (Y: 54 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2025-08-21 - Senate - Unfinished Business SB280 Cervantes et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence (Y: 30 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-08-20 - Assembly - Do pass (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-08-19 - Assembly - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-07-16 - Assembly - Do pass. To Consent Calendar (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-07-02 - Assembly - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-05-29 - Senate - Senate 3rd Reading SB280 Cervantes et al (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-04-01 - Senate - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-08-21		Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 97, Statutes of 2025.
2025-08-21		Approved by the Governor.
2025-08-21		Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
2025-08-21	Senate	Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2232.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2025-08-21	Senate	Urgency clause adopted.
2025-08-21	Senate	In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-08-21	Assembly	Senate Rule 29.10(d) suspended. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2226.)
2025-08-21	Assembly	Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 20. Page 2693.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-08-21	Assembly	Amendments by Assembly Member Tangipa tabled on motion by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 2692.)
2025-08-21	Assembly	Amendments by Assembly Member Gallagher tabled on motion by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 2691.)
2025-08-21	Assembly	Amendments by Assembly Member Castillo tabled on motion by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 2690.)
2025-08-21	Assembly	Amendments by Assembly Member Gallagher tabled on motion by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 2689.)
2025-08-20	Assembly	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-20	Assembly	From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 20).
2025-08-19	Assembly	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-08-18	Assembly	Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2188.)
2025-08-18	Assembly	Assembly Rule 63 and 66 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 2647.)
2025-08-18	Assembly	Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 2646.)
2025-08-18	Assembly	Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 2646.)
2025-08-18	Assembly	Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 2645.)
2025-08-18	Assembly	Re-referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
2025-08-18	Assembly	Read third time and amended.
2025-08-18	Assembly	Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-18	Assembly	From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Pellerin.
2025-07-17	Assembly	Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
2025-07-16	Assembly	From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 16).
2025-07-02	Assembly	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-02	Assembly	Coauthors revised.
2025-06-05	Assembly	Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
2025-05-29	Assembly	In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-05-29	Senate	Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1332.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-04-22	Senate	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-04-21	Senate	From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
2025-04-10	Senate	From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-04	Senate	Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-01	Senate	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 609.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-25	Senate	From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
2025-03-20	Senate	Set for hearing April 1.
2025-02-14	Senate	Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
2025-02-06	Senate	From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8.
2025-02-05	Senate	Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Chapter	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Elections Code	8160	Repealed Code	Citation Text

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