Bill Text: CA AB1457 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Petition circulator: certification: use of signatures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1457 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1457-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1457	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Obernolte

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 9610 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1457, as introduced, Obernolte. Petition circulator:
certification: use of signatures.
   Existing law requires a petition circulator, prior to soliciting
signatures on an initiative petition, to execute and submit to the
person, company official, or other organizational officer who is in
charge of signature gathering a signed statement, as specified.
Existing law requires the person, company official, or other
organizational officer who is in charge of signature gathering for
the proposed initiative measure to keep the certification on file for
not less than eight months after the certification of the results of
the election for which the measure qualified, or if the measure, for
any reason, is not submitted to the voters, eight months after the
deadline for submission of the petition to the elections official.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   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 9610 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   9610.  (a)  Prior to   Before 
soliciting signatures on an initiative petition, a circulator shall
execute and submit to the person, company official, or other
organizational officer who is in charge of signature gathering a
signed statement that reads as follows:
   I, ___, acknowledge that it is a misdemeanor
under state law (Section 18650 of the Elections
Code) to       knowingly or willfully allow the
signatures on an initiative petition to be used
for any purpose other than qualification of the
proposed measure for the ballot. I certify that
I will not knowingly or willfully allow the
signatures for this initiative to be used for
any purpose other than qualification of the
measure for the ballot.
__________________________
(Signature of Circulator)
Dated this ________ day of __________, 20___


   (b) The certification required by subdivision (a) shall be kept on
file by the person, company official, or other organizational
officer who is in charge of signature gathering for the proposed
initiative measure for not less than eight months after the
certification of the results of the election for which the measure
qualified, or if the measure, for any reason, is not submitted to the
voters, eight months after the deadline for submission of the
petition to the elections official.
   (c) This section shall not apply to unpaid circulators of state or
local initiative petitions.
   (d) Failure to comply with this section shall not invalidate any
signatures on a state or local initiative petition.