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Bill	California New Motor Voter Program: voter registration.	Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration. Existing law authorizes a person who is at least 16 years of age and otherwise meets all eligibility requirements to vote to submit his or her affidavit of registration, which, if properly executed, will be deemed effective as of the date the affiant will be 18 years of age.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1407	California AB 1407 (20172018)	bill	California New Motor Voter Program: voter registration.	enacted	McCarty	8	30	3	2017-02-17	2018-02-26	openstates	ocd-bill/67af460b-aa3a-4232-a8a5-e3712668b133	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1407	2427fdf3ac1597b2b3e7660e42c410ae93a4e9a224097c41e038a73cf8860c20	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1407 (20172018) — California New Motor Voter Program: voter registration.

Under existing law, a person may not be registered to vote except by affidavit of registration. Existing law authorizes a person who is at least 16 years of age and otherwise meets all eligibility requirements to vote to submit his or her affidavit of registration, which, if properly executed, will be deemed effective as of the date the affiant will be 18 years of age.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/11/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/26/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1407 (committee substitute) — source
8. 02/21/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1407 McCarty et al. By Stern — 25–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 1407 MCCARTY Assembly Third Reading — 53–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — author (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.
• 2017-03-20 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 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
• 2017-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2017-04-03 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
• 2017-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 1646.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and T. & H. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 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
• 2017-09-15 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Stern.
• 2018-01-11 From inactive file.
• 2018-01-11 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-01-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-01-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-02-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 3272.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-02-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after February 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-02-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 46. Noes 22. Page 4063.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-02-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2018-02-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-02-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 4, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67af460b-aa3a-4232-a8a5-e3712668b133. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).