---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elections."
description: "Existing law requires the gathering of a specified number of signatures by petition to nominate a candidate or qualify a measure or recall for the ballot, among other purposes. Existing law requires elections officials to verify the signatures on a petition in accordance with specified procedures."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 3197"
citation: "California AB 3197 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c020eae-b63d-4f23-bcdf-cc8ddc9b6da1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3197"
source_hash: "1a2e32616106f633001567c9079da9df4ed11c25aa62dee011bbb9e92c8a12ff"
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 3197 (20232024) — Elections.

Existing law requires the gathering of a specified number of signatures by petition to nominate a candidate or qualify a measure or recall for the ballot, among other purposes. Existing law requires elections officials to verify the signatures on a petition in accordance with specified procedures.

## 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=202320240AB3197&version=20230AB319799INT)
2. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3197&version=20230AB319798AMD)
3. **04/11/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3197&version=20230AB319797AMD)
4. **06/03/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3197&version=20230AB319796AMD)
5. **07/15/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3197&version=20230AB319794CHP)
6. **AB3197** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3197)
7. **06/26/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3197&version=20230AB319795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 3197 Lackey Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3197 Lackey Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lackey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2024-03-11** Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-04-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-03** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-06-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-12** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4530.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-06-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5987.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 120, 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/8c020eae-b63d-4f23-bcdf-cc8ddc9b6da1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).