California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2243

Introduced by Assembly Member Weber

February 21, 2014

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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2243, as introduced, Weber. Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated persons.

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. Existing law also requires 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.

This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to either establish and maintain on the 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 or post in each parole office a notice that contains the Internet Web site address at which the voting rights guide may be found.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 2105.5 of the Elections Code is amended
to read:

2105.5.  

begin delete Each end delete begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation shall do one of the following: end insert

begin insert

(1) Establish and maintain on the 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.

end insert begin insert

(2) Post, in each parole office where parolees 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.

end insert

begin insert (b) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert Each end insert county probation department shall do one of the
following:

begin delete

(a)

end delete

begin insert (1) end insert  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.

begin delete

(b)

end delete

begin insert (2) end insert  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.