BILL NUMBER: AB 149	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        JANUARY 18, 2013

   An act to add Section 2105.5 to the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 149, as amended, Weber. Voting rights:  inmates and
persons formerly incarcerated.   county probation
departments. 
   Existing law provides that in order to be entitled to register to
vote a person must be a United States citizen, a resident of
California, 18 years of age, and not be incarcerated or on parole for
a felony conviction.
   This bill would require  the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, county jails, and county probation departments to
provide specified voting rights information to persons under their
jurisdictions   each county probation department to
either establish and maintain on the county probation department's
Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Secretary of State's voting
rights guide for incarcerated persons or post a notice with the
Internet Web site address that   contains the Secretary of
State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons in each
probation office where probationers are seen  . By imposing new
duties on  county jails and  county probation
departments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares
that many people with criminal convictions, whether they are
presently serving a sentence or have completed a sentence, are
unaware that they may be eligible to vote. It is the intent of the
Legislature to encourage the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, county jails, and county probation departments to
provide voter eligibility information and affidavits of registration
to eligible voters consistent with this act.  
  SEC. 2.    Section 2105.5 is added to the
Elections Code, to read:
   2105.5.  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
shall do all of the following with respect to each parolee under the
jurisdiction of the department upon the completion of his or her
parole:
   (1) Provide the parolee the most recent version of the Secretary
of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons.
   (2) Inform the parolee, at the time the parolee is provided the
guide described in paragraph (1), that he or she may be eligible to
vote.
   (3) Provide the parolee an affidavit of registration.
   (b) Each county jail shall do all of the following with respect to
each inmate of the jail:
   (1) Provide the inmate the most recent version of the Secretary of
State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons.
   (2) Provide the inmate, upon the inmate's request, an affidavit of
registration if the inmate is eligible to register to vote.
   (c) Each county probation department shall do all of the following
with respect to each person under the department's supervision:
   (1) Provide the person the most recent version of the Secretary of
State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons.
   (2) Inform the person, at the time the person is provided the
guide described in paragraph (1), that he or she may be eligible to
vote.
   (3) Provide the person, upon the person's request, an affidavit of
registration if the person is eligible to register to vote.
   (d) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, county
jails, and county probation departments shall obtain affidavits of
registration from county elections officials and the voting rights
guide from the Secretary of State. 
   SECTION 1.    Section 2105.5 is added to the 
 Elections Code   , to read: 
   2105.5.  Each county probation department shall do one of the
following:
   (a) Establish and maintain on the county probation department's
Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Internet Web site at which the
Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may
be found.
   (b) Post, in each probation office where probationers are seen, a
notice that contains the Internet Web site address at which the
Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may
be found. 
   SEC. 3.   SEC. 2.   If the Commission on
State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by
the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for
those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section
17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.