Amended
IN
Senate
August 14, 2018 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1846 |
Introduced by Committee on Budget (Assembly Members Ting (Chair), Arambula, Bloom, Caballero, Chiu, Cooper, |
January 10, 2018 |
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2018.
(a)(1)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the charter of the County of San Diego may be amended as provided in Section 23720 to require that candidates for county office be elected at the general election. Only the candidates who receive the highest or second highest number of votes cast at the primary election shall appear on the ballot as candidates for county office at the ensuing general election. In the event there are two or less candidates for county office, the names of the candidates shall not appear on the primary election ballot and the candidate for county office with the highest number of votes cast shall be elected at the general election.
(2)The amendments to paragraph (1) made by the act adding this paragraph shall be
effective on and after January 1, 2018.
(b)For purposes of this section, “county office” means any of the following offices:
(1)County supervisor.
(2)District attorney.
(3)Sheriff.
(4)Assessor, recorder, and county clerk.
(5)Treasurer and tax collector.
(6)Member of the county board of education.
The Legislature finds and declares that the amendments made to Section 23725 of the Government Code by this act shall apply retroactively to any initiative charter amendment authorized by that section for which proponents submitted petition signatures to the county elections official on or after January 1, 2018. To the extent petition signatures for an initiative measure proposing an amendment to the charter of the County of San Diego pursuant to Section 23725 of the Government Code are submitted to the county elections official before this act becomes law, the elections official shall examine or reexamine whether the number of valid signatures filed by the proponents is sufficient to qualify the measure for the ballot pursuant to this act.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2018.