---
type: "Bill"
title: "Voting rights: county probation departments."
description: "Existing law provides that in order to be entitled to register to vote a person must be a United States citizen, a resident of California, 18 years of age, and not be incarcerated or on parole for a felony conviction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 149"
citation: "California AB 149 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Voting rights: county probation departments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weber"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-01-18"
last_action: "2013-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf9d1e86-4f8b-4c1a-8795-cf482334ec57"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB149"
source_hash: "a5e89b701fcc6dd601add9aa365e6b2fa4c2b649788460e1cdb819c5ff179ae5"
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 149 (20132014) — Voting rights: county probation departments.

Existing law provides that in order to be entitled to register to vote a person must be a United States citizen, a resident of California, 18 years of age, and not be incarcerated or on parole for a felony conviction.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/18/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB149&version=20130AB14999INT)
2. **03/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB149&version=20130AB14998AMD)
3. **04/10/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB149&version=20130AB14997AMD)
4. **05/24/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB149&version=20130AB14996AMD)
5. **10/05/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB149&version=20130AB14994CHP)
6. **AB149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB149)
7. **08/28/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB149&version=20130AB14995ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB149 Weber By Hancock — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- AB 149 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — **62–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Elections and Redistricting. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **4–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weber — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-01-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-22** From printer. May be heard in committee February 21.
- **2013-03-19** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 13. Page 1802.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-13** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2013-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 1976.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-26** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2013-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 580, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf9d1e86-4f8b-4c1a-8795-cf482334ec57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).