republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1436.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Voter registration."
description: "Existing law establishes procedures regarding the registration of voters. Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration, and a voter may not vote in an election unless his or her affidavit of registration is executed and received by the county elections official on or before the 15th day prior to the election. Existing law permits any registered voter to vote by a vote by mail ballot, and further permits any voter using a vote by mail ballot to vote the ballot at the office of the elections official beginning 29 days before the election. Existing law requires that the affidavit of registration show facts necessary to establish the affiant as an elector, as specified, and provides that if the affiant has not been issued a current and valid driver's license or social security number, he or she shall be provided a unique identification number for voter registration purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1436"
citation: "California AB 1436 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Voter registration."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feuer"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2012-01-04"
last_action: "2012-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96dca7fd-d6c4-4b47-882d-e2817558a59d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436"
source_hash: "40b86374cb1929496394935e1547e698ebf6b4fbf68da389c7b080110240b2e4"
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 1436 (20112012) — Voter registration.

Existing law establishes procedures regarding the registration of voters. Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration, and a voter may not vote in an election unless his or her affidavit of registration is executed and received by the county elections official on or before the 15th day prior to the election. Existing law permits any registered voter to vote by a vote by mail ballot, and further permits any voter using a vote by mail ballot to vote the ballot at the office of the elections official beginning 29 days before the election. Existing law requires that the affidavit of registration show facts necessary to establish the affiant as an elector, as specified, and provides that if the affiant has not been issued a current and valid driver's license or social security number, he or she shall be provided a unique identification number for voter registration purposes.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/04/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436&version=20110AB143699INT)
2. **03/20/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436&version=20110AB143698AMD)
3. **04/16/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436&version=20110AB143697AMD)
4. **05/25/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436&version=20110AB143696AMD)
5. **06/18/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436&version=20110AB143695AMD)
6. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436&version=20110AB143694AMD)
7. **09/24/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436&version=20110AB143692CHP)
8. **AB1436** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436)
9. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1436&version=20110AB143693ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **4–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1436 FEUER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **50–29** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1436 Feuer By Calderon — **23–13** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1436 FEUER Assembly Third Reading — **47–26** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **11–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feuer — primary (person)
- Alejo — coauthor (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- De León — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Hill — coauthor (person)
- Lara — coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Solorio — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)
- Yee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-01-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-01-05** From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
- **2012-01-19** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 26. Page 5185.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-14** Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 4743.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 29. Page 6379.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 497, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96dca7fd-d6c4-4b47-882d-e2817558a59d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).