---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ballot materials: electronic access."
description: "Existing law requires elections officials to provide a registered voter with a sample ballot, voter pamphlet, directions to the nearest polling place, and other ballot materials by mail within designated timeframes before a primary or general election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1717"
citation: "California AB 1717 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ballot materials: electronic access."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["De Leon"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2010-02-02"
last_action: "2010-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63dabe94-03fc-4d51-afd6-a20e73f78b38"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1717"
source_hash: "0fe131c11ba93ec626de373621729e8444e15ce9cbc287fd7f671ab5ccf61b81"
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 1717 (20092010) — Ballot materials: electronic access.

Existing law requires elections officials to provide a registered voter with a sample ballot, voter pamphlet, directions to the nearest polling place, and other ballot materials by mail within designated timeframes before a primary or general election.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/02/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1717&version=20090AB171799INT)
2. **02/22/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1717&version=20090AB171798AMD)
3. **03/16/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1717&version=20090AB171797AMD)
4. **06/10/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1717&version=20090AB171796AMD)
5. **07/19/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1717&version=20090AB171794CHP)
6. **AB1717** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1717)
7. **06/30/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1717&version=20090AB171795ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1717 DE LEON Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1717 De Leon — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1717 DE LEON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- De Leon — primary (person)
- Adams — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
- Hill — principal coauthor (person)
- Huffman — coauthor (person)
- Jeffries — coauthor (person)
- Lieu — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Solorio — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-03** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2010-02-11** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2010-02-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-02-23** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-07** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-12** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4598.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** Referred to Com. on E., R., & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., R., & C.A. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-16** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-17** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4056.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-06-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5844.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-07-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2010-07-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 119, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63dabe94-03fc-4d51-afd6-a20e73f78b38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).