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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Elections: initiative and referendum petitions: signature verification."
+description: "Existing law sets forth procedures for the verification of signatures on initiative and referendum petitions by elections officials."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "AB 698"
+citation: "California AB 698 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections: initiative and referendum petitions: signature verification."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Obernolte"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-02-19"
+last_action: "2019-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/535cdd27-37c3-4bc2-96df-7f931984bc9e"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB698"
+source_hash: "1c89cd6fea9abef910487cebbac10059a8a61e862ffcb2adc49697ab67566208"
+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 698 (20192020) — Elections: initiative and referendum petitions: signature verification.
+
+Existing law sets forth procedures for the verification of signatures on initiative and referendum petitions by elections officials.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/19/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB698&version=20190AB69899INT)
+2. **06/26/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB698&version=20190AB69897CHP)
+3. **AB698** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB698)
+4. **06/18/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB698&version=20190AB69898ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Consent Calendar AB698 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 698 Obernolte Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Obernolte — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1587.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-06-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1605.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-06-18** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2019-06-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 14, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/535cdd27-37c3-4bc2-96df-7f931984bc9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+