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Bill	Voting: state of emergency.	Existing law designates the Secretary of State as the chief elections officer of the state and requires him or her to study and adopt regulations governing the use of voting machines, voting devices, vote tabulating devices, and ballot marking systems.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 214	California AB 214 (20132014)	bill	Voting: state of emergency.	enacted	Skinner	7	26	8	2013-01-31	2013-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/7474d207-ddc0-4421-a62c-bf7d766fb673	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB214	522f7abac860842c2f46cc1eeff32efc0760b009c241bf967f299968362fd72f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 214 (20132014) — Voting: state of emergency.

Existing law designates the Secretary of State as the chief elections officer of the state and requires him or her to study and adopt regulations governing the use of voting machines, voting devices, vote tabulating devices, and ballot marking systems.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/04/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/02/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/03/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB214 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 214 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 66–9 (pass) · lower
• AB 214 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — 65–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB214 Skinner By Torres — 34–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Brown — coauthor (person)
• Corbett — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2013-02-07 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2013-03-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-05 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-02 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 5. Page 919.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-04-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-04-25 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2013-05-28 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-24 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 2246.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 9. Page 3092.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 498, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7474d207-ddc0-4421-a62c-bf7d766fb673. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).