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

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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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 193	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 14, 2013

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 amended, 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  ,
for a measure placed on the ballot by the legislative body,  to
give preference and priority to the  arguments 
 argument  of  the legislative body, or  a
member or members of the legislative body authorized by that body
 ,   only  if the  arguments are in
favor of a measure that is placed on the ballot by the legislative
body   argument is consistent with the position taken by
the legislative body on the measure  .
   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 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.
   (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:
   (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.
   (2) Bona fide associations of citizens.
   (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
 member's  argument is  in favor of  
consistent with the position taken by that body on  the measure.

   (2) Bona fide associations of citizens.
   (3) Individual voters who are eligible to vote on the measure.