republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1805.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military or overseas voters."
description: "Existing law regulates the voting procedures for special absentee voters, defined as members of the Armed Forces, citizens of the United States temporarily living outside of the territorial limits of the United States or District of Columbia, persons serving on a merchant vessel, and a spouse or dependent of a member of the Armed Forces. Existing law also regulates the voting procedures in federal elections with respect to a citizen of the United States residing outside of the territorial limits of the United States who was domiciled in California immediately prior to leaving the territorial limits of the United States."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1805"
citation: "California AB 1805 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military or overseas voters."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huffman"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2012-02-21"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eeec738d-0701-441e-9eb4-88542afcfccd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805"
source_hash: "dcc84b1955cc916caa4053f4e3261a61e60bfec459bbbe743eec49c2f1b8d48f"
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 1805 (20112012) — Military or overseas voters.

Existing law regulates the voting procedures for special absentee voters, defined as members of the Armed Forces, citizens of the United States temporarily living outside of the territorial limits of the United States or District of Columbia, persons serving on a merchant vessel, and a spouse or dependent of a member of the Armed Forces. Existing law also regulates the voting procedures in federal elections with respect to a citizen of the United States residing outside of the territorial limits of the United States who was domiciled in California immediately prior to leaving the territorial limits of the United States.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180599INT)
2. **04/10/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180598AMD)
3. **04/18/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180597AMD)
4. **05/01/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180596AMD)
5. **05/25/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180595AMD)
6. **07/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180594AMD)
7. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180593AMD)
8. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180591CHP)
9. **AB1805** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805)
10. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1805&version=20110AB180592ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1805 Huffman By Correa — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- AB 1805 HUFFMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **53–22** (pass) · lower
- AB 1805 HUFFMAN Assembly Third Reading — **55–20** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs. — **4–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Huffman — primary (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Chesbro — coauthor (person)
- Fletcher — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Solorio — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2012-03-01** Referred to Coms. on E. & R. and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (March 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-10** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-01** 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`
- **2012-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (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`
- **2012-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 20. Page 5116.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-14** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2012-07-05** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-06** 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`
- **2012-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 4870.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
- **2012-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 6577.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 744, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eeec738d-0701-441e-9eb4-88542afcfccd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).