---
type: "Bill"
title: "County of San Diego: local elections."
description: "Existing law authorizes the amendment of a county charter by proposals submitted by the governing body or by a petition signed by 10% of the qualified electors of the county, as specified. Existing law also provides that a candidate for a nonpartisan office at a primary election who receives votes on a majority of all the ballots cast for candidates for that office shall be elected to that office."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 901"
citation: "California AB 901 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County of San Diego: local elections."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gloria"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/924c4b18-b400-4aaf-ab64-11ae0cd48d02"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB901"
source_hash: "6a93dbe451f980db024e89536519b2f1a45eb862bba466eb19f17328d98d1f48"
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 901 (20172018) — County of San Diego: local elections.

Existing law authorizes the amendment of a county charter by proposals submitted by the governing body or by a petition signed by 10% of the qualified electors of the county, as specified. Existing law also provides that a candidate for a nonpartisan office at a primary election who receives votes on a majority of all the ballots cast for candidates for that office shall be elected to that office.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB901&version=20170AB90199INT)
2. **03/15/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB901&version=20170AB90198AMD)
3. **03/20/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB901&version=20170AB90197AMD)
4. **05/01/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB901&version=20170AB90196AMD)
5. **10/12/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB901&version=20170AB90194CHP)
6. **AB901** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB901)
7. **09/05/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB901&version=20170AB90195ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB901 Gloria et al. By Atkins — **23–14** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **4–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gloria — primary (person)
- Weber — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** 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`
- **2017-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** 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`
- **2017-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-01** 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`
- **2017-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 1534.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2324.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 713, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/924c4b18-b400-4aaf-ab64-11ae0cd48d02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).