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Bill	Voting.	Existing law permits a voter who is unable to mark a ballot to receive the assistance of not more than 2 persons, selected by the voter, at a polling place. In addition, existing law imposes criminal penalties on specified activities that interfere with another person's right to vote, including defrauding a voter who cannot read the ballot by deceiving and causing him or her to vote for a candidate that he or she did not intend to vote for.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 547	California AB 547 (20112012)	bill	Voting.	enacted	Gatto	10	31	7	2011-02-16	2011-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/7a608a63-34e7-43da-822d-8d7b615d2431	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB547	8244b1d7e52d15c8c246a12ffeb795cdb578d9febb173355aaba437153e612ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 547 (20112012) — Voting.

Existing law permits a voter who is unable to mark a ballot to receive the assistance of not more than 2 persons, selected by the voter, at a polling place. In addition, existing law imposes criminal penalties on specified activities that interfere with another person's right to vote, including defrauding a voter who cannot read the ballot by deceiving and causing him or her to vote for a candidate that he or she did not intend to vote for.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/31/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/25/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/05/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/07/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/21/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB547 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/19/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 547 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Be referred to Committee on Elections and Redistricting. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 547 GATTO Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #7 — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-31 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2011-04-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2011-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2011-04-14 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E. & R. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2011-04-25 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
• 2011-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-18 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1568.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-06-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-13 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1915.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-08-18 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2443.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2011-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 260, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a608a63-34e7-43da-822d-8d7b615d2431. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).