republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-362.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Voting procedures: natural disasters.	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. Existing law also establishes procedures for the marking and counting of ballots in the case of electrical failure or other emergency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 362	California SB 362 (20132014)	bill	Voting procedures: natural disasters.	enacted	Padilla	6	23	7	2013-02-20	2013-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/f7306c43-0cfe-473c-8d91-a07d357775a6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB362	f9ccb746ba332c5952ca20c3e9fdfd9efd80ad3af1451bf06fff59657d365f78	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 362 (20132014) — Voting procedures: natural disasters.

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. Existing law also establishes procedures for the marking and counting of ballots in the case of electrical failure or other emergency.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/08/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/05/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/04/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB362 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB362 Padilla Concurrence — 31–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 362 Padilla Senate Third Reading By MULLIN — 57–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2013-02-28 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2013-04-08 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
• 2013-04-09 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2013-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 749.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2013-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 936.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 945.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-17 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2013-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-07-03 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-08-05 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
• 2013-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 19. Page 2712.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2037.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2013-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 566, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7306c43-0cfe-473c-8d91-a07d357775a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).