BILL NUMBER: AB 2233	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Donnelly

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 5100 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2233, as introduced, Donnelly. Primary elections: party
eligibility.
   Existing law specifies conditions under which a party is qualified
to participate in a primary election.
   This bill would make technical, 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 5100 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   5100.  A party is qualified to participate in  any
  a  primary election under any of the following
conditions:
   (a)  If at   At  the last preceding
gubernatorial election there was polled for any one of its candidates
for any office voted on throughout the state, at least 2 percent of
the entire vote of the state.
   (b)  If on   On    or before
the 135th day before  any   the  primary
election, it appears to the Secretary of State, as a result of
examining and totaling the statement of voters and their political
affiliations transmitted to him or her by the county elections
officials, that voters equal in number to at least 1 percent of the
entire vote of the state at the last preceding gubernatorial election
have declared their intention to affiliate with that party.
   (c)  If on   On  or before the 135th day
before  any   the  primary election, there
is filed with the Secretary of State a petition signed by voters,
equal in number to at least 10 percent of the entire vote of the
state at the last preceding gubernatorial election, declaring that
they represent a proposed party, the name of which shall be stated in
the petition, which proposed party those voters desire to have
participate in that primary election. This petition shall be
circulated, signed,  and  verified  ,  and the
signatures of the voters on it shall be certified to and transmitted
to the Secretary of State by the county elections officials
substantially as provided for initiative petitions. Each page of the
petition shall bear a caption in 18-point boldface type, which
caption shall be the name of the proposed party followed by the words
"Petition to participate in the primary election."