Bill Text: CA AB2369 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Elections: voter-requested recounts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 904, Statutes of 2014. [AB2369 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2369-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2369	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 15624 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2369, as amended, Hagman. Elections: voter-requested recounts.
   Existing law establishes procedures by which a voter may request a
recount of the votes cast in an election following completion of the
official canvass. Under existing law, the voter seeking the recount
is required, before the recount is commenced and at the beginning of
each subsequent day, to deposit with the elections official the
amount of money required by the elections official to cover the cost
of the recount for that day.
   This bill would modify and apply these provisions to the 
candidate-controlled  campaign committee  or
primarily formed committee  , as defined, that is
represented by the voter filing the request to seek a recount.
 The bill would also specify that the money deposited with
the elections official be from the voter's own personal funds, funds
of the candidate-controlled campaign committee of the candidate on
whose behalf the recount is being requested, or funds of a primarily
formed committee. 
   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 15624 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

   15624.  The voter or the  candidate-controlled 
campaign committee  or primarily formed committee  ,
as defined in Section  82047.5   82013  of
the Government Code, represented by the voter filing the request
seeking the recount shall, before the recount is commenced and at the
beginning of each day following, deposit with the elections official
a sum as required by the elections official to cover the cost of the
recount for that day.  The money deposited shall be from the
voter's own personal funds, funds of the candidate-controlled
campaign committee of the candidate on whose behalf the recount is
being requested, or funds of a primarily formed committee. 
The money deposited shall be returned to the depositor if, upon
completion of the recount, the candidate, slate of presidential
electors, or the position on the measure (affirmative or negative)
for which the declaration is filed is found to have received the
plurality of votes cast which it had not received according to the
official canvass or, in an election where there are two or more
candidates, the recount results in the candidate for whom the recount
was requested appearing on the ballot in a subsequent runoff
election or general election who would not have so appeared in the
absence of the recount. The depositor shall be entitled to the return
of any money deposited in excess of the cost of the recount if the
candidate, slate, or position on the measure has not received the
plurality of the votes cast or, in an election where there are two or
more candidates, the recount does not result in the candidate for
whom the recount was requested appearing on the ballot in a
subsequent runoff or general election as a result of the recount.
Money not required to be refunded shall be deposited in the
appropriate public treasury.