BILL NUMBER: AB 906	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 21000 of the Elections Code, relating to
reapportionment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 906, as introduced, Galgiani. Elections: reapportionment.
   Existing law requires the county elections official in each county
to compile and make available to the Legislature, or an appropriate
committee of the Legislature, information and statistics that may be
necessary in connection with the reapportionment of legislative
districts, as specified.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 21000 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

   21000.  The county elections official in each county shall compile
and make available to the Legislature or any appropriate committee
of the Legislature any information and statistics that may be
necessary for use in connection with the reapportionment of
legislative districts, including, but not limited to, precinct maps
indicating the boundaries of municipalities, school districts,
judicial districts, Assembly districts, senatorial districts and
congressional districts, lists showing the election returns for each
precinct, and election returns for each precinct reflecting the vote
total for all ballots cast, including both vote by mail ballots and
ballots cast at polling places, compiled pursuant to 
subdivision (a) of  Section 15321 in the county at each
statewide election. If the county elections official stores the
information and statistics in data-processing files, he or she shall
make the files available, along with whatever documentation 
shall be   is  necessary  in order
 to allow the use of the files by the appropriate committee
of the Legislature and shall retain these files until the next
reapportionment has been completed.
   Each precinct shall be identified according to the census tract or
enumeration district in which it is located. When a precinct is
divided among two or more census tracts or enumeration districts, the
county elections official shall include an estimate of the
proportion of the precinct's registered voters in each census tract
or enumeration district. If the United States Census Bureau divides
or alters any census tract or enumeration district between the time
of an election and the census upon which the reapportionment is
based, the county elections official shall provide whatever
corrections or additional information may be necessary to reflect
those changes.