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Bill	Voter registration: public postsecondary educational institutions: California New Motor Voter Program.	Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration. Pursuant to the Student Voter Registration Act of 2003, the Secretary of State is required to annually provide every high school, community college, California State University, and University of California campus with voter registration forms. The act also requires every community college and California State University campus that operates an automated class registration system, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to permit students during the class registration process to apply to register to vote online by submitting an affidavit of voter registration electronically on the Internet Web site of the Secretary of State. The act encourages the University of California to comply with this provision.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2455	California AB 2455 (20152016)	bill	Voter registration: public postsecondary educational institutions: California New Motor Voter Program.	enacted	Chiu	9	28	8	2016-02-19	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/093e9f86-3e4f-41e6-95c3-639cfed45520	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2455	038299ef4e4a5399c4e4fba5aa76dfbf648d88767e24abeca09dbfe852800cb2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2455 (20152016) — Voter registration: public postsecondary educational institutions: California New Motor Voter Program.

Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration. Pursuant to the Student Voter Registration Act of 2003, the Secretary of State is required to annually provide every high school, community college, California State University, and University of California campus with voter registration forms. The act also requires every community college and California State University campus that operates an automated class registration system, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to permit students during the class registration process to apply to register to vote online by submitting an affidavit of voter registration electronically on the Internet Web site of the Secretary of State. The act encourages the University of California to comply with this provision.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2455 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections and Constitutional Amendments] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2455 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 52–23 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2455 Chiu By Allen — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• AB 2455 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 55–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Bonta — author (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2016-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 23. Page 4891.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Coms. on ED. and E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-16 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 5123.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 24. Page 6196.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 417, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/093e9f86-3e4f-41e6-95c3-639cfed45520. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).