BILL NUMBER: AB 1343	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fong

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 3206 of the Elections Code, relating to
vote by mail procedures.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1343, as introduced, Fong. Vote by mail: procedures: permanent
vote by mail voters: failure to return ballot.
   Existing law provides for a voter to become qualified as a
permanent vote by mail voter. Under existing law, a permanent vote by
mail voter will be deleted from the list of qualified permanent vote
by mail voters if the voter fails to return an executed vote by mail
ballot in 2 consecutive statewide general elections.
   This bill would, instead, require that a permanent vote by mail
voter be removed from the list of qualified permanent vote by mail
voters if the voter fails to return an executed vote by mail ballot
in 4 consecutive statewide general elections.
   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 3206 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   3206.  A voter whose name appears on the permanent vote by mail
voter list shall remain on the list and shall be mailed a vote by
mail ballot for each election conducted within his or her precinct in
which he or she is eligible to vote. If the voter fails to return an
executed vote by mail ballot in  two   four
 consecutive statewide general elections in accordance with
Section 3017 the voter's name shall be deleted from the list.