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Bill	Special absentee voters: voting by facsimile.	Special absentee voters: voting by facsimile.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20032004	AB 2941	California AB 2941 (20032004)	bill	Special absentee voters: voting by facsimile.	enacted	Bates	8	27	8	2004-02-20	2004-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/adf46734-0a6d-42df-b26d-a446a9d61565	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2941	897c6b705901469f0cd2f5c25ae859b2176cfe46cc31562a6ffed4117c6aab00	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2941 (20032004) — Special absentee voters: voting by facsimile.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/04 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/14/04 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/04 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/20/04 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/09/04 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/04 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2941 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/04 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• ab 2941 bates concurrence- urgency added — pass (pass) · lower
• placed on appropriations suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• ab 2941 bates assembly third reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• assembly 3rd reading ab2941 bates by ackerman — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bates — primary (person)
• Benoit — coauthor (person)
• Dutton — coauthor (person)
• Harman — coauthor (person)
• La Malfa — coauthor (person)
• Maddox — coauthor (person)
• Maze — coauthor (person)
• McPherson — coauthor (person)
• Oller — coauthor (person)
• Pacheco — coauthor (person)
• Strickland — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2004-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 821, Statutes of 2004.
• 2004-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2004-08-31 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2004-08-24 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 7607.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2004-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2004-08-19 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 5. Page 5105.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2004-08-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2004-08-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-08-04 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2004-07-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2004-06-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2004-06-17 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2004-06-09 Referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. referral-committee
• 2004-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2004-05-26 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6086.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2004-05-24 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 19). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2004-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. referral-committee
• 2004-04-28 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2004-04-27 Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2004-04-26 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 20). referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage
• 2004-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2004-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-03-15 Referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2004-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2004-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/adf46734-0a6d-42df-b26d-a446a9d61565. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).