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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Ballot materials: translations."
+description: "Existing law requires each county elections official to prepare separate sample ballots for each political party and a separate sample nonpartisan ballot, as specified. Existing law requires the elections official to send to each voter, together with the sample ballot, a voter's pamphlet that contains the written statements of each candidate. Existing law requires the elections officials to provide a Spanish translation to those candidates who wish to have one and requires that the person selected to provide that translation be from a list of approved Spanish-language translators and interpreters of the superior court of the county or from an institution accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "SB 366"
+citation: "California SB 366 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Ballot materials: translations."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nguyen"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2015-02-24"
+last_action: "2015-08-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fa33b4c-a074-4278-88cc-4f7ab6d8483e"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB366"
+source_hash: "d61d675a41bfb93e329c05d17656ff799dc99cb202f80efe1e8da666455fce97"
+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 SB 366 (20152016) — Ballot materials: translations.
+
+Existing law requires each county elections official to prepare separate sample ballots for each political party and a separate sample nonpartisan ballot, as specified. Existing law requires the elections official to send to each voter, together with the sample ballot, a voter's pamphlet that contains the written statements of each candidate. Existing law requires the elections officials to provide a Spanish translation to those candidates who wish to have one and requires that the person selected to provide that translation be from a list of approved Spanish-language translators and interpreters of the superior court of the county or from an institution accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB366&version=20150SB36699INT)
+2. **08/07/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB366&version=20150SB36697CHP)
+3. **SB366** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB366)
+4. **07/10/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB366&version=20150SB36698ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper
+- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 366 Nguyen Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nguyen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-24** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
+- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-24** Set for hearing April 7.
+- **2015-04-08** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 523.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 632.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-14** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-07-01** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2328.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-09** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2015-07-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
+- **2015-08-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-08-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 144, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fa33b4c-a074-4278-88cc-4f7ab6d8483e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+