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Bill	Elections: vote by mail and provisional ballots.	(1) Under existing law, a vote by mail voter must sign the vote by mail ballot envelope. This envelope contains, among other information, a declaration under penalty of perjury that the voter resides within the precinct in which he or she is voting and is the person whose name appears on the envelope. If an elections official determines that a voter has failed to sign this identification envelope, the elections official is prohibited from rejecting the vote by mail ballot if the voter signs the identification envelope at the election official's office before 5 p.m. on the eighth day after the election or the voter completes and submits an unsigned ballot statement, as specified. Existing law requires certain instructions to accompany the unsigned ballot statement, including the instruction that a voter may submit his or her completed unsigned ballot statement by facsimile transmission to the local elections official instead of mailing or delivering the completed unsigned ballot statement to the local elections official. Existing law requires an elections official to include the unsigned ballot statement and instructions on his or her Internet Web site, and to provide the election official's mailing address and facsimile transmission number on that site.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 840	California AB 840 (20172018)	bill	Elections: vote by mail and provisional ballots.	enacted	Quirk	8	30	7	2017-02-16	2017-10-15	openstates	ocd-bill/b41e8296-6ec1-4a3f-9aa4-38fc76a30c53	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB840	694f5850298eb9105b20ce1b2586f4ddfac680fa2b412c5aa2794e7bb714e709	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 840 (20172018) — Elections: vote by mail and provisional ballots.

(1) Under existing law, a vote by mail voter must sign the vote by mail ballot envelope. This envelope contains, among other information, a declaration under penalty of perjury that the voter resides within the precinct in which he or she is voting and is the person whose name appears on the envelope. If an elections official determines that a voter has failed to sign this identification envelope, the elections official is prohibited from rejecting the vote by mail ballot if the voter signs the identification envelope at the election official's office before 5 p.m. on the eighth day after the election or the voter completes and submits an unsigned ballot statement, as specified. Existing law requires certain instructions to accompany the unsigned ballot statement, including the instruction that a voter may submit his or her completed unsigned ballot statement by facsimile transmission to the local elections official instead of mailing or delivering the completed unsigned ballot statement to the local elections official. Existing law requires an elections official to include the unsigned ballot statement and instructions on his or her Internet Web site, and to provide the election official's mailing address and facsimile transmission number on that site.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/15/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB840 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 840 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 840 QUIRK Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB840 Quirk et al. By Leyva — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Quirk — primary (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-28 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1144.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-10 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2017-05-23 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
• 2017-06-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-28 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 2740.). 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 77. Noes 0. Page 3501.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 820, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b41e8296-6ec1-4a3f-9aa4-38fc76a30c53. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).