republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-666.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elections: voter information guides: candidate statements."
description: "Under existing law, a candidate for State Senate or Assembly who accepts specified voluntary expenditure limits may purchase the space to place a statement in the voter information portion of the county voter information guide that does not exceed 250 words. Existing law requires that statement to be submitted in accordance with certain timeframes and procedures for the preparation of the voter information portion of the county voter information guide."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 666"
citation: "California AB 666 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections: voter information guides: candidate statements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aguiar-Curry"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-14"
last_action: "2018-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c77684fd-0211-4643-bf1c-d513db1f202e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB666"
source_hash: "3e50ab4a995a649e2af34c409b4639860a1a457099d7eee617c150fafc2a4625"
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 666 (20172018) — Elections: voter information guides: candidate statements.

Under existing law, a candidate for State Senate or Assembly who accepts specified voluntary expenditure limits may purchase the space to place a statement in the voter information portion of the county voter information guide that does not exceed 250 words. Existing law requires that statement to be submitted in accordance with certain timeframes and procedures for the preparation of the voter information portion of the county voter information guide.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB666&version=20170AB66699INT)
2. **01/11/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB666&version=20170AB66698AMD)
3. **05/24/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB666&version=20170AB66697AMD)
4. **06/19/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB666&version=20170AB66696AMD)
5. **08/20/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB666&version=20170AB66694CHP)
6. **AB666** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB666)
7. **08/07/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB666&version=20170AB66695ENR)

## Votes

- AB 666 AGUIAR-CURRY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 666 AGUIAR-CURRY Assembly Third Reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB666 Aguiar-Curry et al. By Dodd — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)
- Dodd — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-05-10** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-01-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **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`
- **2018-01-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3780.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-01-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-05-24** 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`
- **2018-06-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5045.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-07-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6133.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2018-08-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-08-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 160, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c77684fd-0211-4643-bf1c-d513db1f202e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).