Bill Text: CA AB963 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: Student Civic and Voter Empowerment Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 559, Statutes of 2019. [AB963 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB963-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 963

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Introduced by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris

February 21, 2019

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An act to amend Section 2021 of the Elections Code, relating to elections.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 963, as introduced, Petrie-Norris. Voter qualifications: residency.

Existing law defines “residence” for voting purposes as a person’s domicile. Existing law describes the domicile of a person for voting purposes as that place in which their habitation is fixed, wherein the person has the intention of remaining, and to which, whenever they are absent, the person has the intention of returning. Existing law describes the residence of a person as that place in which the person’s habitation is fixed for some period of time, but wherein they do not have the intention of remaining. Existing law provides that a person may have only one domicile at a given time, but may have more than one residence. Existing law guarantees that a person who leaves their home to go into another state or precinct in this state for temporary purposes merely, with the intention of returning, does not lose their domicile.

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 2021 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

2021.

 (a) A person who leaves his or her the person’s home to go into another state or precinct in this state for temporary purposes merely, with the intention of returning, does not lose his or her the person’s domicile.

(b) A person does not gain a domicile in any precinct into which he or she the person comes for temporary purposes merely, without the intention of making that precinct his or her the person’s home.