Existing law requires that each section of any petition or paper signed by voters, including initiative, referendum, recall, and nominating petitions, have attached to it a specified declaration or affidavit signed by the circulator of the petition or paper, including a certification to the content of the declaration as to its truth and correctness, under penalty of perjury under the laws of this state, with the signature of his or her name at length, including given name, middle name or initial, or initial and middle name.
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California Legislature
20112012
SB 1188
California SB 1188 (20112012)
bill
Elections.
enacted
Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments
Existing law requires that each section of any petition or paper signed by voters, including initiative, referendum, recall, and nominating petitions, have attached to it a specified declaration or affidavit signed by the circulator of the petition or paper, including a certification to the content of the declaration as to its truth and correctness, under penalty of perjury under the laws of this state, with the signature of his or her name at length, including given name, middle name or initial, or initial and middle name.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1188 E. & C.A. Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2012-02-22 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2012-02-23 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
2012-03-29 Set for hearing April 19.
2012-04-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2012-04-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3232.) (April 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2012-04-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3292.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-04-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2012-05-03 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
2012-06-20 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-06-21 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2012-06-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5482.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-06-27 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2012-07-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
2012-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2012-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 132, Statutes of 2012.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f57047e2-2f45-4e12-86ea-8e2705cb1236. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).