Bill Text: CA AB1461 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Voter registration: California New Motor Voter Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 729, Statutes of 2015. [AB1461 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1461-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1461	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1461, as introduced, Gonzalez. Early voting.
   Existing law establishes procedures for voters to apply for a vote
by mail ballot and use the ballot to vote in an election. Existing
law allows a jurisdiction in which vote by mail ballots are cast to
begin processing vote by mail ballots 29 days before the election.
   This bill would declare that it is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation allowing in-person voting at county offices
before the day of the election.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation allowing in-person voting at county offices before the
day of the election.