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Bill	Elections: recounts.	Existing law permits a voter to request a recount in an election, other than a statewide election, within 5 days after the election date by filing a request with the elections officials who conducted the election.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1525	California AB 1525 (20092010)	bill	Elections: recounts.	enacted	Beall	6	24	6	2009-02-27	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/ec2eda86-8d0e-4fbd-9063-e577c4df597c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1525	069f926ebb9bc4cbaf550d7f99acf2f36069e1832ed1a834fdada79541c026fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1525 (20092010) — Elections: recounts.

Existing law permits a voter to request a recount in an election, other than a statewide election, within 5 days after the election date by filing a request with the elections officials who conducted the election.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/09/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/25/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1525 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/10/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1525 BEALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1525 Beall — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1525 BEALL Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beall — primary (person)
• Harkey — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-04-02 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2009-04-22 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-30 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-04 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1367.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Referred to Com. on E., R., & C.A. referral-committee
• 2009-06-09 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
• 2009-06-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-06-25 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
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-08-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-20 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2009-09-02 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2123.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3106.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-29 Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 541, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec2eda86-8d0e-4fbd-9063-e577c4df597c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).