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Bill	Military and overseas voters.	Existing law authorizes a military or overseas voter to apply in person to the elections official for permission to register if he or she is released from service after the closing date of registration for an election, has returned to the county of his or her residence, and is not a registered voter, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1403	California AB 1403 (20172018)	bill	Military and overseas voters.	enacted	Obernolte	13	40	8	2017-02-17	2017-10-14	openstates	ocd-bill/be070370-a622-4b2e-92cb-11eaccafc5e6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1403	7c9824e6924675dd69240c5571e0af0f7bf92283d759acca305557a1d1c0d789	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1403 (20172018) — Military and overseas voters.

Existing law authorizes a military or overseas voter to apply in person to the elections official for permission to register if he or she is released from service after the closing date of registration for an election, has returned to the county of his or her residence, and is not a registered voter, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/26/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/07/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 10/14/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB1403 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1403 OBERNOLTE Assembly Third Reading — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1403 Obernolte By Anderson — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1403 OBERNOLTE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Obernolte — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-13 Referred to Coms. on E. & R. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-18 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-27 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1884.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-28 Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2017-07-05 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-06 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-08-28 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2769.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
• 2017-09-13 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2017-09-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3273.)
• 2017-09-14 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 14). committee-passage
• 2017-09-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3501.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 797, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be070370-a622-4b2e-92cb-11eaccafc5e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).