BILL NUMBER: SB 49	CHAPTERED  02/04/99

	CHAPTER   2
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   FEBRUARY 4, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   FEBRUARY 4, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   FEBRUARY 4, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 28, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 26, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Johnson and Assembly Member Longville
   (Coauthor:  Senator Costa)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Granlund, Leonard, Nakano, Olberg,
and Soto)

                        DECEMBER 7, 1998

   An act to amend Section 1000 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 49, Johnson.  Elections:  regular election dates.
   Former law included among various established regular election
dates the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June of each year.
That date was deleted as a regular election date by legislation
enacted in 1998 and operative January 1, 1999.
   This bill instead would establish the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in June of each odd-numbered year as a regular election
date.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 1000 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

   1000.  The established election dates in each year are as follows:

   (a) The second Tuesday of April in each even-numbered year.
   (b) The first Tuesday after the first Monday in March of each
odd-numbered year.
   (c) The first Tuesday in March in each even-numbered year.
   (d) The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each
year.
   (e) The first Tuesday after the first Monday in June of each
odd-numbered year.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order for local elections scheduled for June 8, 1999, to take
place, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.