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Bill	Elections: voting machines.	Existing law provides for the conduct of statewide and local elections and sets forth provisions governing, among other things, election procedures, the declaration of results, and election contests. Existing law defines for these purposes the term "voting machine" to mean any device upon which a voter may register his or her vote, and which, by means of counters, embossing, or printouts, furnishes a total of the number of votes cast for each candidate or measure.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2631	California AB 2631 (20132014)	bill	Elections: voting machines.	enacted	Dababneh	6	22	6	2014-02-21	2014-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/756658dc-94ba-4e85-a3b3-eaad8689e48c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2631	6864af198d133ab100749f6e5b34fa28ee95b425303616d50269b48321c03c85	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2631 (20132014) — Elections: voting machines.

Existing law provides for the conduct of statewide and local elections and sets forth provisions governing, among other things, election procedures, the declaration of results, and election contests. Existing law defines for these purposes the term "voting machine" to mean any device upon which a voter may register his or her vote, and which, by means of counters, embossing, or printouts, furnishes a total of the number of votes cast for each candidate or measure.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/17/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2631 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2631 Dababneh By Pavley — 27–9 (pass) · upper
• AB 2631 DABABNEH Assembly Third Reading — 71–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2631 DABABNEH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dababneh — primary (person)

Timeline

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
• 2014-03-17 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2014-04-09 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
• 2014-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2014-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 4847.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2014-06-17 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
• 2014-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 4459.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-18 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6105.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 911, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/756658dc-94ba-4e85-a3b3-eaad8689e48c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).