BILL NUMBER: AB 1680	CHAPTERED  10/12/03

	CHAPTER  868
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 12, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 12, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 13, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 12, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 12, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 16, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Strickland

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2003

   An act to add and repeal Section 7310 of the Elections Code,
relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1680, Strickland.  Elections:  presidential nominations.
   Under existing law, the Secretary of State is required to deliver
certificates of nomination to local elections officials 68 days prior
to a general election.
   This bill would require the Chairperson of the Republican State
Central Committee to notify the Secretary of State of the apparent
nomination, with certain requirements, of the Republican candidates
for President and Vice President of the United States not less than
78 days prior to the election if the Republican National Convention
will conclude after the deadline for the Secretary of State to
deliver certificates of nomination to local elections officials.  The
bill would require the Secretary of State to prepare the
certificates of nomination based on this information.
  This bill would make these provisions inoperative on December 31,
2004, and would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2005.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 7310 is added to the Elections Code, to read:
   7310.  (a) If the Republican National Convention will conclude
after the deadline for the Secretary of State to deliver certificates
of nomination to local elections officials pursuant to Section 8148,
the Chairperson of the Republican State Central Committee shall
notify the Secretary of State of the apparent nomination of the
Republican candidates for President and Vice President of the United
States not less than 78 days prior to the election, if all of the
following conditions apply:
   (1) A candidate for President has attained a sufficient number of
delegate votes to assure his or her nomination at the Republican
National Convention.
   (2) The candidate described in paragraph (1) has identified a
person who will be nominated to run for the office of Vice President.

   (3) The Republican National Convention is likely to nominate the
person who is the choice of the candidate for President in the Vice
Presidential nomination.
   (b) The Secretary of State shall prepare the certificates of
nomination required in Section 8148 to include the names of the
Republican candidates for President and Vice President as notified by
the Chairperson of the Republican State Central Committee.
   (c) This section shall become inoperative on December 31, 2004,
and, as of January 1, 2005, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2005, deletes
or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is
repealed.