---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elections: special elections."
description: "Elections: special elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2760"
citation: "California AB 2760 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections: special elections."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simitian"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2002-02-25"
last_action: "2002-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29dd31c4-8a3c-47e4-8778-8dd8ea04847d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760"
source_hash: "1f01034251510f5627bb852c47eb803c675cd9e6d7ab74bbe9ebe2b465bd342f"
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 2760 (20012002) — Elections: special elections.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760&version=20010AB276099INT)
2. **04/22/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760&version=20010AB276098AMD)
3. **05/13/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760&version=20010AB276097AMD)
4. **06/17/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760&version=20010AB276096AMD)
5. **08/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760&version=20010AB276095AMD)
6. **09/18/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760&version=20010AB276093CHP)
7. **AB2760** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760)
8. **08/21/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2760&version=20010AB276094ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2760 Simitian By Poochigian — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2760 Simitian Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2760 Simitian Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Simitian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 658, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-29** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2002-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 57. Noes 22. Page 7858.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-08-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 5518.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-13** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-08-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (August 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-20** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-04** Referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 20. Page 6529.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 6.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-14** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-13** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-05-09** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 7). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-02** Joint Rule 61(b)(5) suspended. (E.,R. & C.A.)
- **2002-04-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-22** Referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2002-02-25** Joint Rule 54 (a) suspended. Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29dd31c4-8a3c-47e4-8778-8dd8ea04847d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).