CA AB 287

enacted

Elections: polling places and vote centers.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law authorizes the governing body with jurisdiction over school buildings or other public buildings, as defined, to allow its buildings to be used for polling places, or for vote centers, beginning up to 10 days before the election and continuing through election day, or to store voting machines and other vote-tabulating devices. Once a governing body has approved the use of a building as a polling place or vote center, existing law requires the governing body to instruct the school district or other public administrator to provide the elections official a site with an adequate amount of space that will allow the precinct board or vote center to perform its duties. This bill would require the governing body to instruct the school district or other public administrator to provide the elections official with an adequate amount of space for voting operations and storage of associated supplies. Existing law requires the district administrator to make building parking available at no charge to the precinct or vote center board and voters, as specified. This bill would require the district administrator to also make accessible parking spaces and parking for assisting voters curbside available, if requested by the elections official.

Introduced: —
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-10-03 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 253, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-01-22
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-01-23
From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
2025-02-10
Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
referral-committee
2025-03-26
Coauthors revised.
2025-03-26
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 26).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-03-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-04-07
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1032.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-04-07
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-05-07
Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
referral-committee
2025-06-09
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-07-01
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-07-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-09-09
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2744.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-09
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage
2025-09-16
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-10-03
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-10-03
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 253, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

Versions

01/22/25 - Introduced — 2025-01-22Compare
09/11/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-11Compare
10/03/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-03Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass.
2025-03-26 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Stefani: yes
- Berman: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
AB 287 Lackey Assembly Third Reading
2025-04-07 · pass · 72-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Carrillo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Hart: yes
- Davies: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Fong: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Krell: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Solache: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Patel: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Flora: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Bains: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ward: yes
- Berman: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Calderon: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wallis: other
- Castillo: other
- Ta: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Sanchez: other
- Lee: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
Do pass
2025-07-01 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Allen: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Limón: yes
- Choi: yes
3rd Reading AB287 Lackey et al. By Umberg
2025-09-09 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Richardson: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Jones: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Stern: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Becker: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Grove: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Limón: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Allen: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Choi: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Blakespear: yes

Related bills

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Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB287

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