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                                                                  AB 1417
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          Date of Hearing:   May 1, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

           AB 1417 (Elections Committee) - As Introduced:  March 20, 2013 

          Policy Committee:                              ElectionsVote:7-0  
          (Consent)

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes various minor and technical changes to the  
          Elections Code, including:
           
          1)Conforming state law to federal law by requiring elections  
            officials to send ballots and ballot materials to all military  
            and overseas voters by the 45th day before the election if  
            they have made a request for a ballot by that day, regardless  
            of whether the 45th day before the election is a weekend or  
            holiday.   

          2)Requiring the Secretary of State (SOS), not less than 73 days,  
            and not more than 90 days before a general election, to notify  
            each candidate for partisan and voter-nominated office of the  
            names, addresses, offices, ballot designations, and party  
            preferences of all other persons whose names are to appear on  
            the ballot for the same office at the general election.  

          3)Repealing a requirement that county elections officials  
            prepare and post a list of the names of candidates for  
            delegates for each political party prior to each presidential  
            primary.

          4)Repealing a limitation that the SOS may employ not more than  
            three expert electronic technicians to examine a voting  
            system.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible fiscal impact.









                                                                  AB 1417
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           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . This is one of the Assembly Elections and Redistricting  
          Committee's omnibus bills, specifically containing various minor  
          and technical changes to provisions of the Elections Code, all  
          of which have been requested by either the California  
          Association of Clerks and Election Officials (CACEO) or the SOS,  
          or are technical changes identified and suggested by the policy  
          committee staff.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081