---
type: "Bill"
title: "Voter notification."
description: "Existing law requires a county elections official, upon receipt of a properly executed affidavit of registration or address correction notice or letter, to send a voter a voter notification stating that he or she is registered to vote and providing additional information. If a person under 18 years of age submits an affidavit of registration, the county elections official is required to send that person a voter preregistration notification stating that he or she is preregistered to vote and providing additional information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 4"
citation: "California AB 4 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Voter notification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-12-05"
last_action: "2017-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04b7ba68-7e81-4581-97b9-81919d971b36"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB4"
source_hash: "a33c9dc3b974232b1afded3876e9ff76d02ca1f6b49ff799744c20b240f08a6e"
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 4 (20172018) — Voter notification.

Existing law requires a county elections official, upon receipt of a properly executed affidavit of registration or address correction notice or letter, to send a voter a voter notification stating that he or she is registered to vote and providing additional information. If a person under 18 years of age submits an affidavit of registration, the county elections official is required to send that person a voter preregistration notification stating that he or she is preregistered to vote and providing additional information.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/05/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB4&version=20170AB499INT)
2. **03/29/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB4&version=20170AB498AMD)
3. **06/28/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB4&version=20170AB496CHP)
4. **AB4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB4)
5. **06/13/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB4&version=20170AB497ENR)

## Votes

- AB 4 WALDRON Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Waldron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-12-06** From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1015.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1487.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2017-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 29, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04b7ba68-7e81-4581-97b9-81919d971b36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).