republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010-special-session-3/ab-11.md

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Bill	Special election.	Existing law provides that the Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state and requires the Secretary of State to perform specified duties, including preparing and mailing ballot pamphlets, in connection with any statewide election. Existing law further requires the Attorney General to provide for each ballot measure submitted to the voters of the state a ballot title, an official summary, and a ballot label that shall be a condensed statement of the ballot title. Existing law requires that every measure submitted to the voters comply with a specified schedule leading up to the day of the election.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010 Special Session 3	AB 11	California AB 11 (20092010 Special Session 3)	bill	Special election.	enacted	Evans	6	25	4	2009-01-05	2009-02-20	openstates	ocd-bill/6a6c0d65-70e5-4041-a2b1-f6f64de9156e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920103AB11	60f51fd57269b29203babe3edfb746f783a545c54ef5a7ddf74587141ed3712d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 11 (20092010 Special Session 3) — Special election.

Existing law provides that the Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state and requires the Secretary of State to perform specified duties, including preparing and mailing ballot pamphlets, in connection with any statewide election. Existing law further requires the Attorney General to provide for each ballot measure submitted to the voters of the state a ballot title, an official summary, and a ballot label that shall be a condensed statement of the ballot title. Existing law requires that every measure submitted to the voters comply with a specified schedule leading up to the day of the election.

Version chain

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

1. 01/05/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/07/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/14/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 02/20/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB11 (committee substitute) — source
6. 02/15/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 11 EVANS Assembly Third Reading Third Extraordinary Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB11 Evans — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 11 EVANS Concurrence- Urgency Added Third Extraordinary Session — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-01-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-01-06 From printer.
• 2009-01-07 Referred to Com. on RULES. referral-committee
• 2009-01-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on RULES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-01-08 Re-referred to Com. on RULES. referral-committee
• 2009-01-12 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on third reading file.
• 2009-01-12 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 0. Page 34.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-01-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-01-26 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
• 2009-01-26 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-02-14 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
• 2009-02-14 (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 24.)
• 2009-02-14 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2009-02-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 58.) (February 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-02-14 Ordered returned to third reading.
• 2009-02-14 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 28.). reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-14 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 31.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-02-15 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 5. Page 101.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-02-15 Motion to reconsider on the next Legislative day made by Assembly Member Torrico.
• 2009-02-19 Reconsideration lapsed.
• 2009-02-19 To enrollment.
• 2009-02-19 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2009-02-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-02-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 6, Statutes of 2009-10 Third Extraordinary Session.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a6c0d65-70e5-4041-a2b1-f6f64de9156e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).