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California Assembly Bill 882 (2014)
| Assembly Bill 882 | |
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| Legislature: | California State Assembly |
| Text: | AB 882 |
| Sponsor(s): | Asm. Richard Gordon (R-35) |
| Legislative history | |
| Introduced: | February 22, 2013 |
| State house: | April 25, 2013, & August 19, 2014 |
| State senate: | August 18, 2014 |
| Governor: | Jerry Brown (D) |
| Signed: | September 26, 2014 |
| Legal environment | |
| State law: | Recall |
| Code: | Elections code |
| Section: | Sections 2153 & 11105 |
| Impact on initiative rights | |
 | Unavailable |
California Assembly Bill 882, which requires a larger sample of recall petition signatures to be verified, was initially introduced and approved in the Assembly in early 2013. After the Senate did not hear a reading of the bill that year, it was carried over to the 2014 year. On August 18, 2014, the Senate approved an amended version and the Assembly agreed to the changes a day later. Gov. Brown (D) signed it into law on September 26, 2014.
Provisions
Assembly Bill 882 amended previous provisions regarding voter registration requirements and recall petitions. Prior to the bill, an elections official processing a recall signature petition was required to verify through a random sampling of the lesser of 3 percent of the signatures submitted and 500, assuming more than 500 signatures were submitted. AB 882 provided that, if 500 or more signatures are submitted to the elections official, the elections official must verify, using a random sampling technique, the greater of 3 percent of the signatures submitted or 500. This requires a larger sampling of signatures to be verified if the raw number of signatures submitted is high.[1]
Since this bill, in some cases, requires local elections officials to perform more work to verify recall petitions, mandating a higher cost, state law requires that these mandated costs be reimbursed to any affected local government agency.[1]
Changes in code
This law amended section 2153, which has to do with voter registration, and section 11105, which concerns the random sampling technique used to verify the sufficiency of recall signature petitions. The full text of the changes made to the election code is available here.[1]
See also
- Changes in 2014 to laws governing ballot measures
- Laws governing ballot measures in California
- Laws governing recall in California
- California State Assembly
- California State Senate
Footnotes
