 | Topic | Supporters | Opponents | Bill number | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voter registration. | 5 | 2 | AB 526 (2003-2004) | Chan | |
| This bill allows the County of Alameda to establish a pilot program enabling voters to register and vote during the 14-day period up to and including Election Day. | |||||
| Statewide primary election. | 2 | 2 | SB 430 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |
| This bill requires that the statewide direct primary election be held on the last Tuesday in June of each even-numbered year. It retains the requirement that the presidential primary election be held on the first Tuesday in March in any year evenly divisible by the number four, but instead requires that the statewide direct primary election not be consolidated with the presidential primary election in those years. This bill sunsets January 1, 2005. | |||||
| Elections: voting identification. | 1 | 3 | SB 1370 (2003-2004) | Oller | |
| This bill requires all California voters to present identification before receiving a ballot at a polling place. | |||||
| Voter registration. | 2 | 1 | AB 587 (2003-2004) | Ridley-Thomas | |
| This bill requires voter registration cards to include a space where the voter may state his or her race, ethnicity or both. | |||||
| Absentee voting: ballots. | 1 | 1 | SB 1371 (2003-2004) | Oller | |
| This bill requires that any person who is designated by an absentee voter to return that voter's absentee ballot do the following: present valid identification to an elections official, and sign a login sheet, under penalty of perjury, with his or her full name, address, telephone number, and relationship to the voter. | |||||
| Elections: voter registration. | 1 | 1 | AB 1689 (2003-2004) | Levine | |
| This bill repeals the requirement that a provisional voter who has moved from one precinct to another within the same county show proof of residency prior to casting a provisional ballot. | |||||
| Write-in candidates. | 1 | 0 | SB 152 (2003-2004) | Oller | |
| This bill prohibits a candidate who loses a partisan primary election from registering and becoming a write-in candidate for that same office in the ensuing general election. | |||||
| Gov/voter registrations | 4 | 0 | SB 448 (2003-2004) | Poochigian | |
| This bill requires the Franchise Tax Board to include a voter registration card with the personal income tax filing forms that are mailed annually to California taxpayers. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974. | 1 | 0 | SB 604 (2003-2004) | Perata | |
| This bill makes revisions to the Political Reform Act concerning methods for filing of various documents, redefining cumulative contributions, and updates references to state primary and state general elections to reflect current practices. | |||||
| Candidates: campaign practices. | 1 | 0 | SB 724 (2003-2004) | Scott | |
| This bill requires the Secretary of State to post on his Internet web site, the names of candidates for state and federal offices who have voluntarily subscribed to the Code of Fair Campaign Practices. | |||||
| Elections: omnibus provisions. | 1 | 0 | SB 1024 (2003-2004) | ||
| Makes various revisions to the Elections Code concerning the filling of a vacancy in the governing board of a school district and recall notice of intention. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974: late contributions. | 1 | 0 | SB 1072 (2003-2004) | Burton | |
| Defines "late contribution" to include any contribution, including a loan, that totals $1,000 or more that is made to or received by a political party committee before the date of any state election but after the closing date of the last campaign statement required to be filed before that election. | |||||
| Elections: voting identification. | 0 | 4 | SB 1282 (2003-2004) | Morrow | |
| Requires a voter to present proof of his or her identity and residency to a member of the precinct board before receiving a provisional ballot. | |||||
| Voting systems. | 0 | 1 | SB 1376 (2003-2004) | Perata | |
| This bill authorizes the Secretary of State, Attorney General, and any local elections official in the county in which the Act occurs, to bring a civil action against an individual, business, or other legal entity that commits one of the specified acts of tampering before, during, or after an election. | |||||
| Elections: voting systems. | 0 | 4 | SB 1438 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |
| This bill prohibits the use of a direct recording electronic voting system unless that system has an accessible voter verified paper audit trail. | |||||
| Voting age. | 0 | 2 | SB 1606 (2003-2004) | Vasconcellos | |
| This bill allows a person who is 14 years of age or older to register and vote. | |||||
| Elections/polling locations | 1 | 0 | SB 1670 (2003-2004) | Romero | |
| This bill requires that uniform standards for the training of precinct board members address procedures concerning the opening and closing of polling locations on election day so that all eligible voters who arrive at the polling location prior to closing time are allowed to cast a ballot. | |||||
| Elections: direct recording electronic devices. | 0 | 3 | SB 1723 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |
| This bill prohibits, until January 1, 2005, a city or county from using any form of direct recording electronic device as part of the city or county's voting system for the November 2, 2004, general election. | |||||
| Primary elections. | 2 | 0 | SB 1730 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |
| This bill requires the statewide direct primary election and the presidential primary election both be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June and makes other related changes to other sections of law. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974. | 1 | 0 | SB 1849 (2003-2004) | Karnette | |
| This bill lowers the monetary thresholds which trigger mandatory online or electronic reporting of contributions and expenditures of specified persons, as of July 1, 2006. | |||||
| Absentee voting. | 2 | 0 | AB 188 (2003-2004) | Maze | |
| This bill makes special and absentee voters permanent absentee voters and provides that they will be mailed a ballot on or after 60 days before each election. | |||||
| Provisional ballots. | 1 | 0 | AB 190 (2003-2004) | Negrete McLeod | |
| This bill requires elections officials to count those votes on a provisional ballot for candidates and measures on which the provisional voter was entitled to vote, even if the ballot contains candidates or measures on which the voter was not entitled to vote. | |||||
| Elections: voting identification. | 0 | 3 | AB 247 (2003-2004) | Cox | |
| This bill requires a voter to present proof of his or her identity and residency before receiving a ballot. | |||||
| Elections: local government seals. | 1 | 0 | AB 255 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |
| This bill prohibits the use of local government seals on campaign literature. | |||||
| Election contests. | 1 | 0 | AB 346 (2003-2004) | Longville | |
| This bill provides that an election may be challenged if eligible voters who attempted to vote in accordance with state law were denied the right to vote, and if the number denied is sufficient to have changed the election results. | |||||
| Provisional voting. | 2 | 0 | AB 461 (2003-2004) | Longville | |
| This bill makes it easier for provisional voters to vote; regulations are to be construed liberally. | |||||
| Voter registration. | 4 | 0 | AB 593 (2003-2004) | Ridley-Thomas | |
| This bill requires that all public schools and universities be provided with voter registration cards, requires digitized signatures for driver's licenses, and makes other changes to voter registration. | |||||
| Elections: municipal elections. | 1 | 0 | AB 718 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |
| This bill makes numerous substantive and technical changes to state law governing municipal elections. | |||||
| Elections: election day procedures. | 2 | 0 | AB 828 (2003-2004) | Leno | |
| This bill requires counties using a direct recording electronic voting system to establish and implement alternative voting procedures for use when a DRE voting system fails. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974: late contributions. | 1 | 0 | AB 890 (2003-2004) | Wesson | |
| This bill defines "late contribution" to include contributions received by a political party committee. | |||||
| Elections: polling places. | 2 | 0 | AB 915 (2003-2004) | Dutra | |
| This bill prohibits a person from photographing, videotaping, or otherwise recording a voter entering or exiting a polling place within 100 feet of a polling place, with the intent of dissuading another person from voting. | |||||
| Public schools and election days. | 4 | 0 | AB 1472 (2003-2004) | Berg | |
| This bill specifies ways in which a governing board having jurisdiction over school buildings may comply with existing law that provides for the governing board to make school buildings available for use as polling places. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974. | 1 | 0 | AB 1501 (2003-2004) | Levine | |
| This bill allows a candidate to change his or her statement of acceptance or rejection of voluntary expenditure limits if the candidate has not already exceeded those limits. | |||||
| Special recall election expenses. | 0 | 1 | AB 1531 (2003-2004) | Longville | |
| This bill would require the state to pay expenses incurred by local elections officials in the preparation for and conduct of the October 7, 2003, special recall election to recall Governor Gray Davis. | |||||
| Elections. | 1 | 0 | AB 1544 (2003-2004) | Simitian | |
| This bill allows cities with a population of less than 100,000, school districts, and special districts to hold all-mail elections in order to fill a vacancy on the legislative or governing body, as specified. | |||||
| Voting age: primary and special elections. | 2 | 0 | AB 1608 (2003-2004) | Liu | |
| This bill allows an individual, who is 17 years old and will be 18 years old by the date of the next general election, to register for and vote in any intervening primary or special election. | |||||
| Absent voter ballots. | 1 | 0 | AB 1677 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill revises the time limit for individuals, organizations or groups to return completed absentee ballot applications from 36 to 72 hours after receiving the completed form, or before the deadline for application, whichever is sooner. | |||||
| Elections. | 1 | 0 | AB 1687 (2003-2004) | Longville | |
| This bill authorizes the Secretary of State to investigate and make a determination that elections within a voting jurisdiction have been conducted inefficiently or illegally and will irreparably or imminently fail. | |||||
| Voter information: privacy. | 0 | 1 | AB 2079 (2003-2004) | Oropeza | |
| Requires the Secretary of State and local elections officials to inform voters of the permissible uses of information supplied on voter registration affidavits. | |||||
| Nomination documents. | 2 | 0 | AB 2091 (2003-2004) | Longville | |
| Clarify that someone other than the candidate may return the declaration of candidacy and nomination papers to the county elections official. | |||||
| Elections. | 2 | 0 | AB 2790 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |
| This bill makes various changes to state law governing municipal elections with regard to all-mail ballot elections, ballot arguments and rebuttal arguments, nomination papers, the publishing of municipal ballot measures, and requiring the Secretary of State to conduct two randomized alphabet drawings if a charter city holds an election and a runoff election. | |||||
| Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century. | 0 | 1 | AB 2865 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |
| Postpones, until 2008, the scheduled 2004 vote on the scheduled 2004 vote on the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century. | |||||
| Special absentee voters: voting by facsimile. | 3 | 0 | AB 2941 (2003-2004) | Bates | |
| This bill permits a special absentee voter who is temporarily living outside of the United States to return his/her ballot by facsimile transmission. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974: California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2004. | 4 | 0 | AB 2949 (2003-2004) | Hancock | |
| Provides public funds to participating candidates for state office who collect a specified number of $5 contributions as the only funds those candidates may use on their campaigns for state office. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign contributions. | 2 | 0 | AB 3006 (2003-2004) | Haynes | |
| Prohibits members of the Legislature and constitutional officers from accepting any campaign contribution during the period between the submission of the Governor's Budget and the enactment of a Budget Bill. | |||||
| Recall elections: vote count. | 1 | 0 | AB 3099 (2003-2004) | ||
| Repeals a provision that no vote cast in a recall election shall be counted for any candidate unless the voter also voted for or against the recall itself. | |||||
| Elections: voting systems. | 1 | 0 | AB 3102 (2003-2004) | ||
| Requires the Secretary of State to meet with the chairs and vice-chairs of the Senate and Assembly Elections Committees annually, to report on the status, use and approval of voting systems. | |||||
| Overseas absentee voting. | SB 240 (2003-2004) | McPherson | |||
| This bill provides that for the November 4th, 2004 Statewide General Election, Monterey County and San Diego County shall allow overseas voting. | |||||
| Elections: direct recording electronic devices. | SB 530 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |||
| This bill requires the Chairperson of the Republican State Central Committee to indicate the "apparent" nominees for President and Vice President to the Secretary of State (SOS), if the Republican National Convention will conclude after the deadline for the SOS to deliver certificates of nomination to local elections officials. | |||||
| Elections: county initiatives. | SB 539 (2003-2004) | Perata | |||
| This bill requires the circulator of a county initiative petition to declare that he or she is a voter of the county or is qualified to register to vote in the county. | |||||
| Elections: voting information. | SB 613 (2003-2004) | Perata | |||
| This bill requires precinct boards to post instruction cards in and around polling places and requires an expanded set of specified materials in each polling place on the day of an election, pursuant to the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). | |||||
| Ballots. | SB 1023 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Replaces the word "print" with "place" or "appear" in existing law that requires elections officials to provide ballots for any elections within their jurisdictions and "print" on them the name of every qualified candidate. | |||||
| Ballot measures. | SB 1119 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Suspends provision of the elections code to allow a proposed Constitutional Amendment to appear on the November 2, 2004 ballot as Proposition 1A. | |||||
| Recall elections. | SB 1317 (2003-2004) | Perata | |||
| Repeals a provision that no vote cast in a recall election shall be counted for any candidate unless the voter also voted for or against the recall itself. | |||||
| Recall elections. | SB 1326 (2003-2004) | Perata | |||
| This bill requires that a recall petition instead bear the name of the county for which it is circulated. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974. | SB 1340 (2003-2004) | Perata | |||
| This bill makes a number of changes relating to the filing of campaign statements under the Political Reform Act of 1974. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974. | SB 1353 (2003-2004) | Perata | |||
| This bill requires the use of guaranteed overnight delivery service or personal service to file supplemental pre-election statements and makes other technical changes. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974: loans. | SB 1449 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |||
| This bill clarifies that the $100,000 limit on how much a candidate may personally loan to his or her campaign includes the proceeds of a loan obtained by the candidate from a commercial lending institution. | |||||
| Elections: voting. | SB 1577 (2003-2004) | ||||
| This bill prohibits the Secretary of State, from requiring that administrative remedies be exhausted in order to pursue other remedies provided in federal and state law. The bill also makes several changes to the new citizen and new resident voter registration process. | |||||
| Voting age. | SB 1693 (2003-2004) | Vasconcellos | |||
| This bill makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to the provisions governing voting age. | |||||
| Government/campaigns | SB 1712 (2003-2004) | Alpert | |||
| This bill directs the Secretary of State (SOS) to review current filing and disclosure requirements of the Political Reform Act of 1974 (PRA) and to provide a report to the Legislature recommending revisions to promote greater reliance on electronic and online submissions. | |||||
| Presidential primaries. | SB 1724 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |||
| This bill makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions regarding national party conventions. | |||||
| Polling places. | AB 603 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |||
| This bill defines and prohibits electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place. | |||||
| Preelection procedures. | AB 622 (2003-2004) | Hancock | |||
| This bill establishes that if a polling place has been relocated from the site used in the previous election, the election official must post the address of the new polling location at the site of the old location; or, if on private property, they may request that the property owner post the notice. | |||||
| Elections: election day procedures. | AB 714 (2003-2004) | Leno | |||
| This bill requires elections officials to establish and implement alternative voting procedures for use when an electronic voting system fails or when ballots run out. | |||||
| Residence of candidates for state or local office. | AB 892 (2003-2004) | Dymally | |||
| This bill extends a conclusive presumption regarding the residence of a state legislator or member of Congress to all candidates in any state, local or congressional race. | |||||
| Elections. | AB 1030 (2003-2004) | McCarthy | |||
| Technical changes to election law. | |||||
| Municipal elections: voting methods. | AB 1039 (2003-2004) | Hancock | |||
| Allows cities to utilize non-standard voting methods, such as instant-runoff voting. | |||||
| Elections: Polling place workers. | AB 1332 (2003-2004) | Levine | |||
| This bill expresses the intent of the Legislature to simplify the administration of elections at the polling place to increase the retention of experienced polling place workers. | |||||
| Candidates: nomination process. | AB 1574 (2003-2004) | Longville | |||
| This bill states legislative intent to improve the procedures by which candidates are nominated for elective office. | |||||
| Elections: procedures and the Democratic Presidential Primary. | AB 1679 (2003-2004) | ||||
| This bill makes corrective revisions to the Elections code. | |||||
| Elections: absentee voting. | AB 1681 (2003-2004) | ||||
| This bill requires a permanent absentee voter's name to be removed from the list if the voter fails to return an absentee ballot for a statewide general election only, instead of both primary and general elections. | |||||
| Candidate controlled ballot measure committees. | AB 1980 (2003-2004) | Wolk | |||
| Imposes campaign contribution limits on ballot measure committees that are controlled by candidates for elective state office. | |||||
| Presidential electors. | AB 2003 (2003-2004) | Longville | |||
| Provides that voters shall vote for Presidential electors, rather than direct election of the President and Vice President at the general election. | |||||
| Elections officials. | AB 2246 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |||
| Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to a law that makes it a misdemeanor to make solicitations and other acts on election day or at any time that a voter may be casting a ballot. | |||||
| Elections: voting systems. | AB 2454 (2003-2004) | Longville | |||
| Prohibits the use of a direct recording electronic voting system beginning January 1, 2006, unless that system has an accessible voter verified paper audit trail. | |||||
| Recall: statewide elected officials. | AB 2487 (2003-2004) | Ridley-Thomas | |||
| Resolves statutory conflicts and to clarify provisions relating to the recall of statewide elected officials. | |||||
| Recall elections: petition gatherers. | AB 2607 (2003-2004) | Jackson | |||
| Requires professional petition circulation firms to post a bond prior to paying an individual to gather signatures on an initiative, referendum, or recall petition. | |||||
| Pleasant Valley School District: unification. | AB 2728 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |||
| This bill would provide that only the electors of the City of Camarillo can vote on a proposition relating to the unification of schools in the City of Camarillo. | |||||
| Precincts: consolidation. | AB 2748 (2003-2004) | Oropeza | |||
| This bill states the intent of the Legislature that the polling place used for a consolidated precinct be established in a facility that is easy to locate, well identified, easily recognizable, large enough to accommodate all the voters and accessible to the elderly and disabled. | |||||
| Campaign contributions. | AB 2818 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |||
| Requires the Fair Political Practices Commission to adjust once every two years a specified threshold on contributions to members of local and state agencies from entities with business before the agency. | |||||
| Voting systems. | AB 2843 (2003-2004) | Levine | |||
| This bill would state that the Legislature's intent that all voting systems used in the State of California produce a written record of the votes cast by each voter, for verification by the voter, that is capable of being audited by election officials. | |||||
| Elections: state mandates. | AB 2854 (2003-2004) | Nunez | |||
| This bill makes optional the requirement that if a county board of supervisors wishes to consolidate specified local elections, it must obtain a report from the county elections official on the cost-effectiveness of consolidation. | |||||
| Limitations on contributions. | AB 2888 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |||
| This bill makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the law that limits contributions from small contributor committees to certain candidates for office. | |||||
| Recall elections. | AB 2898 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |||
| Existing law provides that recall proceedings may be commenced by the service, filing, and publication or posting of a notice of intention to circulate a recall petition. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change. | |||||
| Improper signature gathering tactics. | AB 2917 (2003-2004) | Pavley | |||
| This bill increases the penalties for intentionally making false statements regarding a local initiative, referendum, or recall petition | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974: mandatory campaign spending limits. | AB 2931 (2003-2004) | Koretz | |||
| This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would impose mandatory limits on campaign spending. | |||||
| Precinct formation: voters. | AB 3098 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Extends the sunset date on a provision that allows counties to increase precinct sizes above 1,000 voters under certain circumstances. | |||||
| Political Reform Act of 1974: voluntary expenditure limits. | AB 3101 (2003-2004) | ||||
| Corrects an erroneous reference to nomination papers in a provision allowing candidates for elective state office to change their acceptance or rejection of voluntary expenditure limits. | |||||
| Taxation: vehicle license fee: offset: driving while under the influence. | AB 19 (2003-2004) | Leslie | |||
| This bill would prohibit persons convicted of driving while under the influence from receiving for 5 years the reduction in the full amount of the vehicle license fee by the offset. | |||||
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