BILL NUMBER: AB 400	CHAPTERED  09/05/02

	CHAPTER  364
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 5, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 4, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 12, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 25, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 10, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 10, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Simitian

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2001

   An act to add Section 13107.5 to the Elections Code, relating to
ballots.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 400, Simitian.  Ballot designations.
   Existing law allows a candidate for elective office, with the
exception of specified judicial offices, to designate, in not more
than 3 words, the principal professions, vocations, or occupations of
the candidate currently or during the preceding calendar year.
   This bill would provide that a candidate's ballot designation as
"community volunteer" shall constitute a valid principal vocation or
occupation for purposes of existing law, if not otherwise in
violation of any of the restrictions set forth in that law, and
subject to specified conditions.  It would require the Secretary of
State to adopt implementing regulations.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 13107.5 is added to the Elections Code, to
read:
   13107.5.  (a) A candidate's ballot designation as "community
volunteer" shall constitute a valid principal vocation or occupation
for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 13107, if not otherwise in
violation of any of the restrictions set forth in that section, and
subject to the following conditions:
   (1) A candidate's community volunteer activities constitute his or
her principal profession, vocation, or occupation.
   (2) A candidate is not engaged concurrently in another principal
profession, vocation, or occupation.
   (3) A candidate may not use the designation of "community
volunteer" in combination with any other principal profession,
vocation, or occupation designation.
   (b) The Secretary of State shall by regulation define what
constitutes a community volunteer for purposes of this section.