Bill Text: CA AB1539 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Elections: double voting.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 692, Statutes of 2023. [AB1539 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1539-Amended.html
NOYES
Local Program:
NOYES
SECTION 1.
Bill Title: Elections: double voting.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 692, Statutes of 2023. [AB1539 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1539-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 23, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1539
Introduced by Assembly Member Berman |
February 17, 2023 |
An act to add Section 18560.1 to the Elections Code, relating to elections.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1539, as amended, Berman.
Elections: double voting.
Existing law permits a person to vote at any election held within the territory within which the person resides and the election is held if the person is qualified and registered to vote. If a person is entitled to vote at an election, existing law makes voting more than once, or attempting to vote more than once, a crime.
This bill would make it a misdemeanor for any person to vote or to attempt to vote both in an election held in this state and in an election held in another state on the same date. The bill would not prohibit a voter from voting in an election held in this state and in another state if one of the elections is an
election held in a landowner voting district or any other district for which an elector is not required to be a resident of the district. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law permits a person to vote at any election held within the territory within which the person resides and the election is held if the person is qualified and registered to vote. If a
person is entitled to vote at an election, existing law makes voting more than once, or attempting to vote more than once, a crime.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that prohibits a person from voting in certain elections or for certain offices in both California and another state.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 18560.1 is added to the Elections Code, to read:18560.1.
(a) A person who votes or attempts to vote in an election held in this state and in an election held in another state on the same date shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.(b) This section does not prohibit a voter from voting in an election held in this state and in an election held in another state on the same date if one of the elections is an election in a landowner voting district or any other district for which an elector is not required to be a resident of the district.
SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that prohibits a person from voting in certain elections or for certain offices in both California and another state.