Bill Text: CA AB2915 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Voter notifications.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-03 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2915 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2915-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 19, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Low |
February 15, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the Secretary of State to revise and adopt regulations by January 1, 2018, specifying procedures for recounting ballots, including regulations establishing guidelines for the charges a county elections official may impose when conducting a manual recount.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2125 is added to the Elections Code, to read:2125.
In addition to the other voter notification requirements set forth in this chapter and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 2200), the county elections official shall send the voter a voter notification by nonforwardable, first-class mail, including a postage-paid and preaddressed return form, to the voter’s last known address if the registration of the voter is changed, updated, or canceled for any reason. The voter notification shall contain all of the following:SEC. 2.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.(a)The Secretary of State, within the Secretary of State’s existing budget, shall adopt regulations no later than January 1, 2008, for each voting system approved for use in the state and specify the procedures for recounting ballots, including vote by mail and provisional ballots, using those voting systems.
(b)No later than January 1, 2018, the Secretary of State shall revise and adopt regulations specifying procedures for recounting ballots, including regulations establishing guidelines for the charges a county elections official may impose when conducting a manual recount pursuant to this chapter.