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          CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
          AB 2080 (Gordon)
          As Amended  August 14, 2012
          Majority vote
           
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          |ASSEMBLY:  |     |(April 26,      |SENATE: |22-14|(August 22,    |
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                 (vote not relevant)

          Original Committee Reference:    E. & R.  

           SUMMARY  :  Deletes the requirement that a vote by mail (VBM) 
          voter be ill or disabled in order to have a family member or a 
          person in the same household return the ballot for that voter.

           The Senate amendments delete the Assembly version of the bill, 
          and instead:

          1)Eliminate a requirement that a voter must be ill or disabled 
            in order for that voter to be able to designate his or her 
            spouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, 
            sister, or other person residing in the same household as the 
            voter, to return the voter's VBM ballot to the elections 
            official from whom it came or to the precinct board at a 
            polling place within the jurisdiction.

          2)Add double-jointing language to avoid chaptering problems with 
            AB 2054 (Fong).
           
          AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY  , this bill provided that if 500 or 
          more signatures were submitted to an elections official on a 
          petition for the recall of a state officer, the elections 
          official could verify, using a random sampling technique, either 
          3% of the signatures submitted or 500 signatures, whichever is 
          greater, instead of verifying the lesser of the two amounts.  

          FISCAL EFFECT  :  Unknown.  This bill is keyed non-fiscal by the 
          Legislative Counsel.
           
          COMMENTS  :  This bill was substantially amended in the Senate and 
          the Assembly-approved provisions of this bill were deleted.  
          This bill, as amended in the Senate is inconsistent with 
          Assembly actions.  The language in this bill is similar to a 








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          portion of the Assembly-approved version of AB 867 (Swanson).  
          Subsequent to its approval by the Assembly in 2011, AB 867 was 
          amended to address a different issue, and it failed passage in a 
          Senate policy committee.


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Ethan Jones / E. & R. / (916) 319-2094 


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