Bill Text: CA AB193 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Local ballot measures: arguments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB193 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB193-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 193	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        JANUARY 28, 2013

   An act to amend Section 9287 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 193, as introduced, Logue. Municipal ballot measures:
arguments.
   Existing law permits a city ballot measure to be placed on the
ballot and submitted to the voters of the city by petition or by the
legislative body of the city. Existing law specifies procedures
applicable to the preparation, submittal, and printing of arguments
for and against a city ballot measure that qualifies for a place on
the ballot. If more than one argument for or more than one argument
against a city measure is submitted, existing law requires the city
elections official to select one of the arguments for and one of the
arguments against the measure for printing and distribution to the
voters. In selecting the arguments, existing law requires the city
elections official to give preference and priority, in the order
named, to the arguments from specified persons, first of which are
the arguments from the legislative body of the city, or a member or
members of the legislative body authorized by that body.
   This bill would instead require the city elections official to
give preference and priority to the arguments of the legislative
body, or a member or members of the legislative body authorized by
that body, if the arguments are in favor of a measure that is placed
on the ballot by the legislative body.
   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 9287 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   9287.   (a)    If more than one argument for or
more than one argument against  any   a 
city  ballot  measure is submitted to the city elections
official within the time prescribed, he or she shall select one of
the arguments in favor and one of the arguments against the measure
for printing and distribution to the voters.  In 
    (b)     In  selecting the argument
 in favor of or against a measure placed on the ballot by
petition,  the city elections official shall give preference and
priority, in the order named, to the arguments of the following:

   (a) The legislative body, or member or members of the legislative
body authorized by that body.  
   (b) 
    (1)  The individual voter, or bona fide association of
citizens, or combination of voters and associations, who are the bona
fide sponsors or proponents of the measure. 
   (c) 
    (2)  Bona fide associations of citizens. 
   (d) 
    (3)  Individual voters who are eligible to vote on the
measure. 
   (c) In selecting the argument in favor of or against a measure
placed on the ballot by the legislative body, the city elections
official shall give preference and priority, in the order named, to
the arguments of the following:  
   (1) The legislative body, or a member or members of the
legislative body authorized by that body, if the argument is in favor
of the measure.  
   (2) Bona fide associations of citizens.  
   (3) Individual voters who are eligible to vote on the measure.