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type: "Bill"
title: "Elections: ballots."
description: "(1) Existing law defines a \"ballot\" for election law purposes to include an electronic touchscreen upon which appears the names of candidates and ballot titles of measures to be voted on by touching the designated area of the screen for systems that do not contain a paper ballot."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2835"
citation: "California AB 2835 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections: ballots."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/823bd1da-05a3-4f59-bd9a-16879bebeb2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2835"
source_hash: "2d34acda2991d83190b45fef2a2fd99929e9e1ecfcb987069cc69236dd8efaac"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 2835 (20172018) — Elections: ballots.
(1) Existing law defines a "ballot" for election law purposes to include an electronic touchscreen upon which appears the names of candidates and ballot titles of measures to be voted on by touching the designated area of the screen for systems that do not contain a paper ballot.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2835&version=20170AB283599INT)
2. **06/28/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2835&version=20170AB283597CHP)
3. **AB2835** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2835)
4. **06/15/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2835&version=20170AB283598ENR)
## Votes
- AB 2835 CALDERON Consent Calendar Second Day — **730** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB2835 — **370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Calderon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5213.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4664.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-14** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2018-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 57, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/823bd1da-05a3-4f59-bd9a-16879bebeb2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).