republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1044.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elections: Secretary of State."
description: "(1) Existing law requires that an application for voter registration information available pursuant to law and maintained by the Secretary of State or by the elections official of any county be made pursuant to specified requirements. Existing law requires a person or entity who has received voter registration information pursuant to these provisions, following discovery or notification of a breach in the security of the storage of the information, to disclose the breach in security to the Secretary of State. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to adopt regulations describing best practices for storage and security of voter registration information received by an applicant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1044"
citation: "California AB 1044 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections: Secretary of State."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-07-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/376d45ca-4743-438f-9d95-f7a8aaec7d8a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1044"
source_hash: "47358b297627b59704b92c2f830b01e306be2738c868a859c9610f7c25dc4984"
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 1044 (20192020) — Elections: Secretary of State.

(1) Existing law requires that an application for voter registration information available pursuant to law and maintained by the Secretary of State or by the elections official of any county be made pursuant to specified requirements. Existing law requires a person or entity who has received voter registration information pursuant to these provisions, following discovery or notification of a breach in the security of the storage of the information, to disclose the breach in security to the Secretary of State. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to adopt regulations describing best practices for storage and security of voter registration information received by an applicant.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1044&version=20190AB104499INT)
2. **03/18/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1044&version=20190AB104498AMD)
3. **07/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1044&version=20190AB104496CHP)
4. **AB1044** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1044)
5. **07/03/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1044&version=20190AB104497ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1044 Irwin Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1044 Irwin By Gonzalez — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Irwin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1477.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1872.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-01** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-07-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-07-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 106, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/376d45ca-4743-438f-9d95-f7a8aaec7d8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).