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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Elections."
+description: "Prior law, the California Voter's Choice Act, required the Secretary of State to establish a taskforce that included certain individuals to review all-mailed ballot or vote center elections and to provide comments and recommendations to the Legislature within 6 months of each all-mailed ballot election or vote center election. The act was repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2022."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20232024"
+identifier: "SB 1450"
+citation: "California SB 1450 (20232024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2024-02-16"
+last_action: "2024-09-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c7b3f64-6a87-400d-8c94-686dc54c3a51"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1450"
+source_hash: "337c7c5e9f0681c650044bd0b442729a3930ea118e9040cbc574e660d506daa1"
+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 1450 (20232024) — Elections.
+
+Prior law, the California Voter's Choice Act, required the Secretary of State to establish a taskforce that included certain individuals to review all-mailed ballot or vote center elections and to provide comments and recommendations to the Legislature within 6 months of each all-mailed ballot election or vote center election. The act was repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2022.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1450&version=20230SB145099INT)
+2. **04/09/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1450&version=20230SB145098AMD)
+3. **08/23/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1450&version=20230SB145097AMD)
+4. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1450&version=20230SB145095CHP)
+5. **SB1450** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1450)
+6. **09/06/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1450&version=20230SB145096ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SB1450 Allen et al. Concurrence — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 1450 Allen Senate Third Reading By Berman — **67–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- [05-16-2024] set for [First] hearing: Reconsideration of favorable vote granted — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2024-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
+- **2024-02-29** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-05** Set for hearing April 16.
+- **2024-04-09** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3631.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-22** Set for hearing April 29.
+- **2024-04-29** April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
+- **2024-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
+- **2024-05-16** May 16 set for first hearing. Reconsideration of favorable vote granted.
+- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3984.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4027.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2024-05-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2024-05-28** Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2024-08-07** August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
+- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-08-23** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2024-08-23** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2024-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 7042.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2024-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2024-08-31** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5782.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 480, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c7b3f64-6a87-400d-8c94-686dc54c3a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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