Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated persons.
Existing law provides that in order to be entitled to register to vote a person must be a United States citizen, a resident of California, 18 years of age, and not be incarcerated or on parole for a felony conviction. Existing law also requires each county probation department to either establish and maintain on the county probation department's Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons or post a notice with the Internet Web site address that contains the Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons in each probation office where probationers are seen.
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20132014
AB 2243
California AB 2243 (20132014)
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Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated persons.
California AB 2243 (20132014) — Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated persons.
Existing law provides that in order to be entitled to register to vote a person must be a United States citizen, a resident of California, 18 years of age, and not be incarcerated or on parole for a felony conviction. Existing law also requires each county probation department to either establish and maintain on the county probation department's Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons or post a notice with the Internet Web site address that contains the Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons in each probation office where probationers are seen.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
2014-03-06 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2014-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2014-04-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (April 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2014-04-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2014-04-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 13. Page 4474.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-04-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2014-05-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2014-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2014-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2014-06-30 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2014-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2014-08-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 10. Page 4494.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-08-14 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2014-08-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2014-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2014-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 899, Statutes of 2014.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64ae47c8-1e93-4212-a6b0-edc340f25571. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).