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Authors Pellerin  
Subject Elections: duties of election officials: voter information guides.
Relating To relating to elections.
Title An act to amend Sections 15371, 15372, 15375, 15400, and 18568 of, and to add Sections 9094.6 and 13318 to, the Elections Code, relating to elections.
Last Action Dt 2025-04-21
State Amended Assembly
Status In Committee Process
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Bill Actions
2025-08-29     In committee: Held under submission.
2025-08-18     In committee: Referred to suspense file.
2025-07-15     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-01     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-06-11     Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and PUB. S.
2025-06-03     In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-02     Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 1819.)
2025-05-27     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23     From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 23).
2025-05-14     In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
2025-04-23     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-22     Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-04-21     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
2025-04-03     Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-04-02     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-26     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-02-18     Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and PUB. S.
2025-01-28     From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
2025-01-27     Read first time. To print.
Versions
Amended Assembly     2025-04-21
Amended Assembly     2025-04-02
Introduced     2025-01-27
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(1) Existing law requires an elections official, upon completion of the count, to add the results of write-in votes and any paper ballots used as certified by the precinct board, and thereupon declare the vote. Existing law requires the elections official to prepare a certified statement of the results of the election and submit it to the governing body within 30 days of the election, as specified. Existing law requires the elections official to send to the Secretary of State within 31 days of the election in an electronic format a complete copy of specified election results, including the vote given for persons for electors of President and Vice President of the United States, all candidates voted for statewide office, and all statewide measures.

This bill would specify that the duties described above imposed on elections officials are ministerial and nondiscretionary.

Existing law, if the Secretary of State determines that state election laws are not being enforced, requires the Secretary of State to call the violation of those laws to the attention of the district attorney of the county or to the Attorney General.

This bill, if an elections official fails to prepare a certified statement of the results of the election, would require the Secretary of State to call the violation to the attention of the district attorney of the county or to the Attorney General and authorize the Secretary of State to assist the county elections official in discharging their duties, consistent with those provisions.

(2) Existing law requires a governing body to declare elected or nominated the person having the highest number of votes for each office voted on at an election under its jurisdiction and to declare the results of each measure voted on at an election under its jurisdiction.

This bill would specify that these duties are ministerial and nondiscretionary.

(3) Existing law requires the Secretary of State to prepare a state voter information guide that includes, among other things, a complete copy of each state measure, the Voter Bill of Rights, and information on candidates for the office of United States Senator and the offices of President and Vice President, as specified. Existing law requires county elections officials to prepare a county voter information guide that contains, among other things, voluntary statements by a candidate for nonpartisan elective office.

(4) Existing law makes it a crime to display a container for the purpose of collecting ballots, with the intent to deceive a voter into casting a ballot in an unofficial ballot box. Existing law also makes it a crime to direct or solicit a voter to place a ballot in such a container. Existing law makes these crimes punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000, by imprisonment for 16 months or two or three years, or by both fine and imprisonment.

This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.