BILL NUMBER: AB 2243	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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.   Each   (a)    
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall do one of the
following:  
   (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. 

   (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.

    (b)     Each  county probation
department shall do one of the following: 
   (a) 
    (1)  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) 
    (2)  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.