Bill Text: CA AB938 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-25 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB938 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB938-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 938	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Sections 2101, 2106, and 2212 of the Elections
Code, relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 938, as amended, Weber. Voting: felons: parolees.
   The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide
for the disqualification of electors while imprisoned or on parole
for the conviction of a felony. Existing statutory law specifies the
qualifications for registration as a voter and excludes from
eligibility a person who is in prison or on parole for the conviction
of a felony.
   Existing law establishes a program of postrelease community
supervision, under which certain persons who were convicted of a
felony, upon release from prison, may be subject to community
supervision provided by a designated county agency. Existing law also
establishes mandatory supervision, under which a person convicted of
a felony that is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail may
serve a concluding portion of his or her sentenced term under the
supervision of a county probation officer.
   This bill would provide that a person is excluded from voter
eligibility if he or she is in state  or federal  prison or
on state  or federal  parole  or federal supervised
release  for the conviction of a felony. This bill would specify
that state parole does not include a person on postrelease community
supervision or mandatory supervision.
   Under existing law, the county elections official is required to
cancel the voter registration of a person who is presently imprisoned
or on parole for conviction of a felony. The clerk of the superior
court of each county, on the basis of the records of the court, is
required to furnish to the chief elections official of the county a
statement showing the names, addresses, and dates of birth of all
persons who have been convicted of a felony since the clerk's last
report. The elections official is then required to cancel the
affidavits of registration of those persons who are currently
imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of a felony.
   This bill would specify that the court clerk's statement must
include only those convicted felons who have been sentenced to state
prison and would  require that the statement also include the
last four digits of the person's social security number, if
available. The bill  also  would  specify that the
county elections official  is required to  cancel the
affidavit of registration of a person imprisoned or on state parole
for a felony conviction whose name, address,  and 
date of birth  , and the last four digits of his or her social
security number, if available,  are the same as reported on the
court clerk's statement.
   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 2101 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   2101.  (a) A person entitled to register to vote shall be a United
States citizen, a resident of California, not in state  or
federal  prison or on state  or federal  parole  or
federal supervised release  for the conviction of a felony, and
at least 18 years of age at the time of the next election.
   (b) "State parole" does not include a person on postrelease
community supervision pursuant to Section 3451 of the Penal Code or
on mandatory supervision pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph
(5) of subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code.
  SEC. 2.  Section 2106 of the Elections Code, as enacted by Section
2 of Chapter 920 of the Statutes of 1994, is amended to read:
   2106.  A program adopted by a county pursuant to Section 2103 or
2105, that is designed to encourage the registration of electors,
shall, with respect to any printed literature or media announcements
made in connection with these programs, contain this statement: "A
person entitled to register to vote must be a United States citizen,
a resident of California, not in state  or federal  prison
or on state  or federal  parole  or federal supervised
release  for the conviction of a felony, and at least 18 years
of age at the time of the election."
  SEC. 3.  Section 2212 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   2212.  The clerk of the superior court of each county, on the
basis of the records of the court, shall furnish to the chief
elections official of the county, not less frequently than the first
day of April and the first day of September of each year, a statement
showing the name, address,  and  date of birth 
, and, if available, the last four digits of the social security
number  of each person who has been convicted of a felony and
sentenced to state prison since the clerk's last report. The
elections official shall, during the first week of April and the
first week of September in each year, cancel the affidavit of
registration of each person who is currently imprisoned or on state
parole for the conviction of a felony whose name, address, 
and  date of birth  , and, if available, the last four
digits of his or her social security number  is the same as
reported on the court clerk's statement. The clerk shall certify the
statement under the seal of the court.