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Bill	Elections: vote by mail ballots.	Existing law requires an elections official, upon receipt of a vote by mail ballot, to compare the signature on the identification envelope with either the signature appearing on the voter's affidavit of registration, or the signature appearing on a form issued by an elections official that contains the voter's signature and that is part of the voter's registration record. Existing law prohibits, if the elections official determines that the signatures do not compare, the elections official from opening the identification envelope and counting the ballot.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 759	California SB 759 (20172018)	bill	Elections: vote by mail ballots.	enacted	McGuire	10	41	10	2017-02-17	2018-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/6c4eda2c-2253-4cd6-8f08-808ae40f2c70	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB759	cfbc64477e3df3e129a84d0326d87937cefeb31a07d74c4f1056d0ab8546b5db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 759 (20172018) — Elections: vote by mail ballots.

Existing law requires an elections official, upon receipt of a vote by mail ballot, to compare the signature on the identification envelope with either the signature appearing on the voter's affidavit of registration, or the signature appearing on a form issued by an elections official that contains the voter's signature and that is part of the voter's registration record. Existing law prohibits, if the elections official determines that the signatures do not compare, the elections official from opening the identification envelope and counting the ballot.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/17/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB759 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB759 McGuire et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 759 McGuire Third Reading Urgency By MULLIN — 55–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 759 McGuire Senate Third Reading By MULLIN Amendment Set #1 — 53–25 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 27–12 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• SB 759 McGuire Third Reading Urgency By MULLIN — 53–24 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• McGuire — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — principal coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2017-03-09 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2017-03-14 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2017-04-18 April 25 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-09-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-01-03 Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2018-01-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-04 Set for hearing January 9.
• 2018-01-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 4005.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-01-10 Set for hearing January 16.
• 2018-01-16 January 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2018-01-17 Set for hearing January 18.
• 2018-01-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4056.) (January 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-01-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 4111.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 June 13 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-08 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-16 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 6294.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-23 Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 6514.) reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Mullin.
• 2018-08-27 Reconsideration granted.
• 2018-08-27 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-27 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 25. Page 6600.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-28 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2018-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 5874.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 446, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c4eda2c-2253-4cd6-8f08-808ae40f2c70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).