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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Voter registration."
+description: "Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration. Existing law provides for an affidavit of registration to be included on a multipart card, to be known as a voter registration card. Existing law also expresses the Legislature's intent to promote and encourage voter registration."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "AB 1357"
+citation: "California AB 1357 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Voter registration."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Swanson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2011-02-18"
+last_action: "2011-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe6723cb-d0d0-4bea-bf48-f8193c286c16"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1357"
+source_hash: "ba718637c199406585eabac6d3da12ec9145489c1a973f0e30d99cae72ddd61d"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 1357 (20112012) — Voter registration.
+
+Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration. Existing law provides for an affidavit of registration to be included on a multipart card, to be known as a voter registration card. Existing law also expresses the Legislature's intent to promote and encourage voter registration.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1357&version=20110AB135799INT)
+2. **06/02/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1357&version=20110AB135798AMD)
+3. **08/08/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1357&version=20110AB135796CHP)
+4. **AB1357** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1357)
+5. **07/15/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1357&version=20110AB135797ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 1357 SWANSON Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent #6 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 1357 SWANSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Swanson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2011-04-28** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1351.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2011-05-26** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-06-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2011-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-07-06** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2011-07-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1786.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-07-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2011-07-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 2327.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-07-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2011-08-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2011-08-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 192, Statutes of 2011.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe6723cb-d0d0-4bea-bf48-f8193c286c16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+