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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Voting."
+description: "Existing law permits a voter who is unable to mark a ballot to receive the assistance of not more than 2 persons, selected by the voter, at a polling place. In addition, existing law imposes criminal penalties on specified activities that interfere with another person's right to vote, including defrauding a voter who cannot read the ballot by deceiving and causing him or her to vote for a candidate that he or she did not intend to vote for."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "AB 547"
+citation: "California AB 547 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Voting."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gatto"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2011-02-16"
+last_action: "2011-09-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a608a63-34e7-43da-822d-8d7b615d2431"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547"
+source_hash: "8244b1d7e52d15c8c246a12ffeb795cdb578d9febb173355aaba437153e612ba"
+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 547 (20112012) — Voting.
+
+Existing law permits a voter who is unable to mark a ballot to receive the assistance of not more than 2 persons, selected by the voter, at a polling place. In addition, existing law imposes criminal penalties on specified activities that interfere with another person's right to vote, including defrauding a voter who cannot read the ballot by deceiving and causing him or her to vote for a candidate that he or she did not intend to vote for.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54799INT)
+2. **03/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54798AMD)
+3. **04/07/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54797AMD)
+4. **04/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54796AMD)
+5. **05/05/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54795AMD)
+6. **06/07/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54794AMD)
+7. **06/21/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54793AMD)
+8. **09/06/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54791CHP)
+9. **AB547** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547)
+10. **08/19/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547&version=20110AB54792ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 547 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+- Be referred to Committee on Elections and Redistricting. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 547 GATTO Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent #7 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gatto — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2011-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2011-03-31** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-04-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-04-14** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E. & R. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2011-04-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-05-05** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-05-09** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-05-18** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1568.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-06-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2011-06-20** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-06-21** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2011-07-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
+- **2011-07-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-07-13** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2011-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1915.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2011-08-18** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2443.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
+- **2011-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2011-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 260, Statutes of 2011.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a608a63-34e7-43da-822d-8d7b615d2431`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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