Bill Text: CA AB1925 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: County and district offices: qualifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 864, Statutes of 2022. [AB1925 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB1925-Chaptered.html

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Assembly Bill No. 1925

CHAPTER 864

An act to amend Section 24001 of the Government Code, relating to local government.

[ Approved by Governor  September 30, 2022. Filed with Secretary of State  September 30, 2022. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1925, Santiago. County and district offices: qualifications.

Existing law generally provides that a person is not eligible to hold a county or district office, unless the person is a registered voter of the county or district in which the duties of the office are to be exercised at the time nomination papers are issued to the person or at the time of the appointment of the person. Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors or any other legally constituted appointing authority in a county or district, if it finds that the best interests of the county or district will be served, to waive the registered voter requirement for an appointed county or district office.

This bill would remove that waiver authority and, instead, apply the registered voter requirement only to elective county or district offices, as specified.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 24001 of the Government Code is amended to read:

24001.

 Except as otherwise provided in Sections 27550.1 and 27641.1 or in this section, or in Section 21123 or 34711 of the Water Code, or in any landowner voting district, as defined in paragraph (8) of subdivision (b) of Section 10500 of the Elections Code, a person is not eligible to an elective county or district office, unless the person is a registered voter of the county or district in which the duties of the office are to be exercised at the time that nomination papers are issued to the person or, if appointed to the elective office to fill a vacancy, at the time of the appointment of the person.