CA AB 1512
enactedElections: ballot language.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 1512 pass?
Yes. CA AB 1512 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-03. Latest recorded action (2025-10-03): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 303, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 1512 about?
Existing law specifies the format of language printed on ballots for various ballot measures relating to local governments, including cities, counties, school districts, and other special districts. This bill would revise these ballot language requirements. The bill would generally require the words "Yes" and "No" to be printed on separate lines of the ballot, with voting targets, to the right of or below the description of the proposal to be voted on.
Who sponsors CA AB 1512?
Committee on Elections is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1512.
Description
Existing law specifies the format of language printed on ballots for various ballot measures relating to local governments, including cities, counties, school districts, and other special districts. This bill would revise these ballot language requirements. The bill would generally require the words "Yes" and "No" to be printed on separate lines of the ballot, with voting targets, to the right of or below the description of the proposal to be voted on.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-30
- Latest action
- 2025-10-03 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 303, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Committee on Electionsauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-03-10
Read first time. To print.
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2025-03-11
From printer. May be heard in committee April 10.
2025-03-17
Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
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2025-04-30
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 30).
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2025-05-01
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-05-05
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-05-08
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1488.)
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2025-05-08
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-21
Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
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2025-07-15
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 15).
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2025-07-16
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-08-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2249.).
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2025-08-26
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2025-09-02
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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2025-10-03
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-03
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 303, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar.
2025-04-30 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Macedo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bennett: yes
AB 1512 Elections Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-05-08 · pass · 69-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Gabriel: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Chen: yes
- Haney: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ward: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Davies: yes
- Hart: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Papan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Fong: yes
- Patel: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Lee: yes
- Solache: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Soria: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ta: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Carrillo: other
- Arambula: other
- Irwin: other
- Gallagher: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Wallis: other
- Flora: other
- Boerner: other
- Sanchez: other
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar
2025-07-15 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Umberg: yes
- Allen: yes
- Choi: yes
- Limón: yes
- Cervantes: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd AB1512 ELECTIONS
2025-08-25 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Reyes: yes
- Allen: yes
- Jones: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Niello: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Grove: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Choi: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Limón: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Hurtado: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Rubio: other
Related bills
No related bills recorded for this bill.
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