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Authors Essayli  
Subject Elections: residency: displacement by natural disaster.
Relating To relating to elections.
Title An act to amend Section 2021 of the Elections Code, relating to elections.
Last Action Dt 2025-02-20
State Introduced
Status Died
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2026-02-02     From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2026-01-31     Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
2025-03-10     Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
2025-02-21     From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20     Read first time. To print.
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Introduced     2025-02-20
Analyses TBD
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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 provides that a person who leaves their home to go into another state or precinct in this state for temporary purposes, with the intention of returning, does not lose their domicile.

This bill would additionally provide that a person who leaves their home for temporary purposes because of a natural disaster, and who intends to return to that home or to another address within the same jurisdiction, does not lose their domicile at that home.