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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Primary election date."
+description: "Existing law requires that the statewide direct primary be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March in each even-numbered year. Existing law requires that the presidential primary be held on that same date in any year that is evenly divisible by 4."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "SB 970"
+citation: "California SB 970 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary election date."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Umberg"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2020-02-11"
+last_action: "2020-09-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e646a15-76f0-4c26-949b-8199975572b8"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970"
+source_hash: "3441ef2d00726d970ee4f0cc269612441b24637fc65c11a3069b6dab5b9a3378"
+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 970 (20192020) — Primary election date.
+
+Existing law requires that the statewide direct primary be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March in each even-numbered year. Existing law requires that the presidential primary be held on that same date in any year that is evenly divisible by 4.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/11/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970&version=20190SB97099INT)
+2. **03/17/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970&version=20190SB97098AMD)
+3. **05/11/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970&version=20190SB97097AMD)
+4. **05/29/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970&version=20190SB97096AMD)
+5. **09/18/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970&version=20190SB97094CHP)
+6. **SB970** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970)
+7. **08/25/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970&version=20190SB97095ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **16–1** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 970 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Berman — **66–5** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar SB970 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Umberg — primary (person)
+- Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
+- Berman — author (person)
+- Rendon — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-11** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2020-02-12** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
+- **2020-02-20** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-13** Set for hearing May 19.
+- **2020-05-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3559.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-26** Set for hearing June 1.
+- **2020-05-29** June 1 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2020-05-29** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-03** Set for hearing June 9.
+- **2020-06-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2020-06-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2020-06-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3684.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2020-06-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2020-06-18** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-08** July 13 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2020-07-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2020-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2020-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2020-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 5. Page 5171.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2020-08-24** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2020-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6:30 p.m.
+- **2020-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 111, Statutes of 2020.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e646a15-76f0-4c26-949b-8199975572b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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