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Bill	Voter participation.	Existing law generally requires all state, county, municipal, district, and school district elections be held on an established election date. Existing law also establishes certain dates for statewide elections. Existing law requires any state, county, municipal, district, and school district election held on a statewide election date to be consolidated with a statewide election, except as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 415	California SB 415 (20152016)	bill	Voter participation.	enacted	Hueso	8	21	5	2015-02-25	2015-09-01	openstates	ocd-bill/06f296b7-02cf-4aee-84ef-abd4d7634150	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB415	8d6dc2c9da89898feafd6afc8efce12a3680be2158ce015a7487b16201763119	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 415 (20152016) — Voter participation.

Existing law generally requires all state, county, municipal, district, and school district elections be held on an established election date. Existing law also establishes certain dates for statewide elections. Existing law requires any state, county, municipal, district, and school district election held on a statewide election date to be consolidated with a statewide election, except as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/28/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB415 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/19/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB415 Hueso Concurrence — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 24–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 4–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 415 Hueso Senate Third Reading By ALEJO — 45–30 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hueso — primary (person)
• Alejo — principal coauthor (person)
• Calderon — principal coauthor (person)
• Roger Hernández — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-25 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-26 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 28.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2015-04-10 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2015-04-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 723.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 927.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2015-06-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 45. Noes 30. Page 2426.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-08-17 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 2048.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
• 2015-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 235, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/06f296b7-02cf-4aee-84ef-abd4d7634150. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).