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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 1536
Author: Committee on Elections and Redistricting
Introduced:3/25/15
Vote: 21
SENATE ELECTIONS & C.A. COMMITTEE: 5-0, 6/16/15
AYES: Allen, Anderson, Hancock, Hertzberg, Liu
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/22/15 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: Elections
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill updates various cross references in the
California Elections Code to reflect a reorganization of federal
laws dealing with elections and makes various technical changes.
ANALYSIS: Existing law makes numerous references to federal
laws related to elections.
This bill makes nonsubstantive, technical changes to update
provisions referencing federal law to reflect a recent
reclassification of federal law.
Background
Various provisions of the California Elections Code include
cross-references to relevant provisions of federal law related
to voting and elections. Due to the editorial reclassification
of federal law, those cross-references can become out of date.
This bill updates the cross-references to federal law contained
in 40 different sections of the California Elections Code in
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order to conform with the federal reorganization of laws related
to elections.
Comments
According to the author, last summer, the federal Office of the
Law Revision Counsel announced that various provisions of
federal law relating to voting and elections would be
transferred from titles 2 and 42 of the United States Code to a
new title 52. The Office of Law Revision Counsel, which is
responsible for maintaining and publishing the United States
Code, reorganized these provisions pursuant to an "editorial
reclassification" under which provisions of law are relocated
from one place to another in the Code without substantive change
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:NoLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/16/15)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/16/15)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/22/15
AYES: Achadjian, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla,
Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau,
Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly,
Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina
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Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez,
Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low,
Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,
Nazarian, Obernolte, Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark
Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Alejo, Jones, O'Donnell, Olsen, Waldron,
Weber
Prepared by:Frances Tibon Estoista / E. & C.A. / (916) 651-4106
6/17/15 10:01:44
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