Bill Text: CA AB2742 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections: voter identification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-25 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2742 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2742-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2742 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Travis Allen |
February 16, 2018 |
An act to add Section 14216.3 to the Elections Code, relating to elections.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2742, as introduced, Travis Allen.
Elections: voter identification.
Existing law requires polling places to be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day and requires that voting commence as soon as polls are opened. Existing law requires a person desiring to vote to audibly announce his or her name and address, and requires a precinct board member to audibly repeat the voter’s name and address after finding the voters name in the index of voter registration. Existing law then requires the voter to write his or her name and residence address on a roster of voters, except as specified.
This bill would also require a voter to provide photographic identification at the polling place before receiving a ballot. The bill would specify the forms of photographic identification that are acceptable and would authorize the use of a photographic identification that has been expired for less than one year. The bill would
require a precinct board to provide a voter who is unable to provide an acceptable form of photographic identification, and would require a voter who is provided a provisional ballot for this reason to present photographic identification to the elections official in order to have his or her provisional ballot counted. The bill would require that a voter be provided a free registered voter identification card that contains a photograph of the voter if the voter does not have an acceptable form of photographic identification. By expanding the duties of precinct board members and local elections officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the
Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 14216.3 is added to the Elections Code, to read:14216.3.
(a) In addition to Section 14216, a person desiring to vote at a polling place shall present one of the following forms of identification to a member of the precinct board before receiving a ballot:(1) A valid California driver’s license.
(2) A valid California identification card.
(3) Any other form of photographic identification issued by the state or its political subdivisions.
(4) A valid United States passport.
(5) A valid tribal enrollment card containing a photograph of the voter.
(6) A valid student identification card containing a photograph of the voter that is issued by an institution of higher education in the state.
(7) A valid pupil identification card containing a photograph of the voter that is issued by a public or private school in the state.
(8) A valid employee identification card containing a photograph of the voter that is issued by the voter’s employer in the ordinary course of the employer’s business.
(b) A voter who presents one of the forms of identification specified in subdivision (a) that has been expired for less than one year shall receive a ballot.
(c) If a voter is unable to present one of the forms of identification specified in subdivision
(a) to a precinct board member, the precinct board shall furnish the voter with a provisional ballot, in accordance with Section 14310. If a voter is issued a provisional ballot pursuant to this subdivision, the voter must present one of the forms of identification specified in subdivision (a) to the elections official in order for the voter’s provisional ballot to be counted.
(d) A voter who does not have one of the forms of identification described in subdivision (a) shall be provided a free registered voter identification card that contains a photograph of the voter.
