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Bill	Vote by mail ballots.	Existing law creates vote by mail ballots. After marking the ballot, vote by mail voters are required to return their ballots by mail or in person to the elections official from whom it came or in person to a member of a precinct board at a polling place within the jurisdiction. A vote by mail voter who is unable to return his or her ballot due to illness or physical disability may designate his or her spouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, or a person residing in the same household to return the ballot to the specified elections official or precinct board member.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2080	California AB 2080 (20112012)	bill	Vote by mail ballots.	enacted	Gordon	6	23	7	2012-02-23	2012-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/26ffae9d-175d-43fd-b4de-c2e89380e958	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2080	26f6af1339cd99e4a99b6d03af872602789015ffb967067976074ee284ef5185	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2080 (20112012) — Vote by mail ballots.

Existing law creates vote by mail ballots. After marking the ballot, vote by mail voters are required to return their ballots by mail or in person to the elections official from whom it came or in person to a member of a precinct board at a polling place within the jurisdiction. A vote by mail voter who is unable to return his or her ballot due to illness or physical disability may designate his or her spouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, or a person residing in the same household to return the ballot to the specified elections official or precinct board member.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/24/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2080 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2080 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 52–28 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2080 GORDON Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2080 Gordon By Yee — 22–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2012-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4569.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-03 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2012-06-26 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
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 4701.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-24 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2012-08-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 27. Page 6468.)
• 2012-08-29 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 29). committee-passage
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 28. Page 6613.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26ffae9d-175d-43fd-b4de-c2e89380e958. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).