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Bill	Voting: voter registration: individuals with disabilities and conservatees.	(1) Existing law requires that a person be registered as a voter by affidavit of registration and provides that a properly executed registration is deemed effective if it is received on or before the 15th day before an election to be held in the registrant's precinct. Existing law requires the affidavit of registration to show certain information of the affiant and requires the affiant to certify the content of the affidavit as to its truth and correctness, under penalty of perjury, with the signature of the affiant's name and the date of signing, except that if the affiant is unable to write, a mark or cross must be used to sign the affidavit.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 589	California SB 589 (20152016)	bill	Voting: voter registration: individuals with disabilities and conservatees.	enacted	Block	7	30	8	2015-02-26	2015-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/153d86d9-327b-4f87-b996-21907e55a19d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB589	dc7eddddaa6d95b2ca29c029956ddbffedce0d5f5ed21db9bfb3913f3832b6a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 589 (20152016) — Voting: voter registration: individuals with disabilities and conservatees.

(1) Existing law requires that a person be registered as a voter by affidavit of registration and provides that a properly executed registration is deemed effective if it is received on or before the 15th day before an election to be held in the registrant's precinct. Existing law requires the affidavit of registration to show certain information of the affiant and requires the affiant to certify the content of the affidavit as to its truth and correctness, under penalty of perjury, with the signature of the affiant's name and the date of signing, except that if the affiant is unable to write, a mark or cross must be used to sign the affidavit.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/18/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/10/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB589 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB589 Block Concurrence — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• SB 589 Block Senate Third Reading By MULLIN — 62–11 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 27–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 29.
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2015-03-24 Set for hearing April 7.
• 2015-04-06 April 7 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-06 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
• 2015-04-09 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 723.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-04-23 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 819.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-01 Set for hearing May 11.
• 2015-05-11 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2015-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1061.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Coms. on E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-06-18 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 and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (July 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-20 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 11. Page 2626.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 2272.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2015-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 736, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/153d86d9-327b-4f87-b996-21907e55a19d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).