Bill Text: CA AB2624 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2624 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Voter education: citizenship.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-22 - Read first time. [AB2624 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2624-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2624	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Harkey

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 2131 of the Elections Code, relating to
voter education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2624, as introduced, Harkey. Voter education: citizenship.
   Existing state law authorizes the Secretary of State to provide
grants to local elections officials, nonprofit corporations, and
unincorporated associations to conduct voter outreach and voter
education programs, or to increase accessibility for eligible voters
with disabilities, using funding provided by the Help America Vote
Act of 2002.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

   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 2131 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   2131.  The Secretary of State may provide grants to local
elections officials, nonprofit corporations, and unincorporated
associations for  both of  the following purposes:
   (a) To conduct voter outreach and voter education programs, in
accordance with the requirements of the Help America Vote Act of 2002
(P.L. 107-252), using funds provided to the state by Sections 101
and 251 of that act.
   (b) To increase accessibility for eligible voters with
disabilities, in accordance with the requirements of the Help America
Vote Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-252), using funds provided to the state
by Section 261 of that act.