BILL NUMBER: AB 372	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bigelow

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2015

   An act to amend Section 8604 of the Elections Code, relating to
elections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 372, as introduced, Bigelow. Elections: write-in candidates.
   Existing law generally prohibits requiring write-in candidates for
office to pay a fee or charge. Existing law requires other
candidates to pay a filing fee or to submit a petition containing
signatures of registered voters in lieu of a filing fee, as
specified.
   This bill would require write-in candidates for a voter-nominated
office who advance to the general election to pay the prescribed
filing fee in order to appear on the general election ballot.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8604 of the Elections Code is amended to read:
   8604.   No   (a)     Except
as provided in Section 10228 and in subdivision (b), a  fee or
charge shall  not  be required of a write-in 
candidate except in the case of a candidate for city office, as
provided in Section 10228   candidate  . 
   (b) A write-in candidate for a voter-nominated office who receives
the highest or second highest number of votes cast at the primary
election shall pay the filing fee prescribed by Section 8103 to the
Secretary of State to appear on the ballot at the ensuing general
election.