Bill Text: CA AB1117 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Initiative petitions: electronic access.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-08-30 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1117 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1117-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1117	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Donnelly

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 9014.5 to the Elections Code, relating to
petitions.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1117, as amended, Donnelly. Initiative petitions: electronic
access.
   Existing law specifies the process by which a statewide initiative
 or referendum  measure may be qualified for the ballot,
and requires the Secretary of State to prepare and provide to any
person, on request, a pamphlet describing certain aspects of that
process. 
   This bill would require the Secretary of State to make available
the petition for an initiative or referendum measure that is
currently in circulation in a format that can be downloaded from the
official Internet Web site of the Secretary of State and printed so a
voter may sign the petition and submit it to the proponent or
proponents by mail. The bill would require the Secretary of State to
provide the mailing address where a signed petition can be sent and
make that address available to the public on the Secretary of State's
official Internet Web site.  
   This bill would require the Secretary of State to provide on his
or her Internet Web site an electronic mail address at which the
proponent of a proposed initiative or referendum measure may submit
to the Secretary of State a copy of the petition for the proposed
measure in portable document format. The bill would require the
Secretary of State, within 2 business days of receiving a petition in
this manner, to provide on his or her Internet Web site a hyperlink
by which the petition is available to the public and can be
downloaded and printed. The bill would require that a specified
disclaimer be included on the Internet Web page that makes the
petition available to the public. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9014.5 is added to the Elections Code, to read:

   9014.5.   (a)     The Secretary of State
shall   provide on his or her Internet Web site  
an electronic mail address at which the proponent of a proposed
initiative or referendum measure may submit to the Secretary of State
a copy of the petition for the proposed measure in portable document
format (PDF).   The 
    (b)     Within two business days of
receiving a petition for a proposed initiative or referendum measure
  pursuant to subdivision (a), the  Secretary of State
shall  make available the   provide on his or
her Internet Web site a hyperlink that is easily accessible to the
public and makes available the  petition for  an
  the proposed  initiative or referendum measure
 that is currently in circulation  in a format that
can be downloaded  and printed.   from the official
Internet Web site of the Secretary of State and printed so a voter
may sign the petition and submit it to the proponent or proponents by
mail. The Secretary of State shall provide the mailing address where
a signed petition can be sent and make that mailing address
available to the public on the Secretary of State's official Internet
Web site.   If the Secretary of State maintains an
Internet Web page regarding proposed initiative and referendum
measures currently in circulation, the hyperlink shall be made
available on that Internet Web page.  
   (c) The Secretary of State shall include on the Internet Web page
from which a petition for a proposed initiative or referendum measure
may be downloaded and printed a disclaimer stating that the petition
was prepared by the proponent of the proposed measure, that the
proponent is solely responsible for its contents, and that the
Secretary of State does not warrant or represent that the petition is
in correct legal form.  
   (d) The Secretary of State shall remove a hyperlink to a petition
for a proposed initiative or referendum measure placed on his or her
Internet Web site pursuant to subdivision (b) within two business
days after the final date for circulation of the petition.