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Bill	Vote by mail ballots and election result statements.	(1) Existing law makes the vote by mail ballot available to any registered voter, including military or overseas voters. Existing law requires that those vote by mail ballots, including those vote by mail ballots cast by military or overseas voters, be received by the elections officials from whom they were obtained or by the precinct boards before the polls close on election day in order to be counted.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 29	California SB 29 (20132014)	bill	Vote by mail ballots and election result statements.	enacted	Correa	9	31	8	2012-12-03	2014-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/d07875d7-4f10-482e-9c06-0bf092b7279f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB29	d66cca7135bcf66a09950a8a9c5ff443c908625e4a772151ff759fe5bfbcb304	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 29 (20132014) — Vote by mail ballots and election result statements.

(1) Existing law makes the vote by mail ballot available to any registered voter, including military or overseas voters. Existing law requires that those vote by mail ballots, including those vote by mail ballots cast by military or overseas voters, be received by the elections officials from whom they were obtained or by the precinct boards before the polls close on election day in order to be counted.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/11/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/26/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB29 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/28/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Supp 1 SB29 Correa Concurrence — 21–11 (pass) · upper
• SB 29 Correa Senate Third Reading By MULLIN — 54–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 27–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Correa — primary (person)
• Fong — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Steinberg — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-12-03 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2012-12-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.
• 2013-01-10 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2013-02-28 Set for hearing March 19.
• 2013-03-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-03-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 325.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-03-22 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2013-04-08 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-05-17 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2013-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1005.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1095.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-10 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2013-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-03 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-08-14 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-08-30 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-08-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-20 Read third time and amended. (Page 6222.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-08-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 6406.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2014-08-26 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 4869.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2014-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 618, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d07875d7-4f10-482e-9c06-0bf092b7279f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).