Bill Text: CA AB1227 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Elections: County of Santa Clara.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 362, Statutes of 2023. [AB1227 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1227-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Elections: County of Santa Clara.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 362, Statutes of 2023. [AB1227 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1227-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1227
Introduced by Assembly Member Low |
February 16, 2023 |
An act to add Section 24206 to the Government Code, relating to elections.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1227, as introduced, Low.
Elections: County of Santa Clara.
Under existing law, specified county officers are required to be elected by the voters in that county. Existing law generally requires the election to select county officers to be held with a statewide primary election, but if no candidate for a county office receives a majority of the votes cast for that office at the primary election, the 2 candidates who received the most votes advance to the ensuing statewide general election.
This bill would authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara to adopt, and a voter of that county to propose by initiative, a proposal to elect county officers by ranked choice voting, as specified.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) To date, the Cities of Albany, Berkeley, Oakland, Palm Desert, and San Leandro, as well as the City and County of San Francisco, have successfully conducted elections using ranked choice voting.
(b) The City of Eureka amended its charter to use ranked choice voting, and is expected to use it in 2024.
(c) The voters in the City of Ojai have expressed their desire by way of an advisory measure to use ranked choice voting on the November 2024 ballot.
(d) The County of Santa Clara has
indicated, both by a charter amendment adopted by a vote of its people and by a resolution passed by its board of supervisors, that it would like to use ranked choice voting in its elections.
(e) The state would benefit from learning more about ranked choice voting from charter counties that wish to use it.