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Bill Election results: risk-limiting audits. Existing law requires an elections official, during the official canvass of an election in which a voting system is used, to conduct a public manual tally of the ballots cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official, as specified. Existing law, operative until January 1, 2021, authorizes the use of risk-limiting audits in lieu of this 1% manual tally beginning with the March 3, 2020, statewide primary election. Under this law, a participating county is required to perform a partial risk-limiting audit of each cross-jurisdictional contest. us/states/ca California Legislature 20192020 AB 2400 California AB 2400 (20192020)
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California AB 2400 (20192020) — Election results: risk-limiting audits.

Existing law requires an elections official, during the official canvass of an election in which a voting system is used, to conduct a public manual tally of the ballots cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official, as specified. Existing law, operative until January 1, 2021, authorizes the use of risk-limiting audits in lieu of this 1% manual tally beginning with the March 3, 2020, statewide primary election. Under this law, a participating county is required to perform a partial risk-limiting audit of each cross-jurisdictional contest.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/18/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 06/03/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  3. 08/27/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  4. AB2400 (committee substitute) — source
  5. 08/25/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 41 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 70 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 180 (pass) · lower
  • 3rd Reading AB2400 Quirk By Hertzberg Urgency Clause — 400 (pass) · upper
  • AB 2400 Quirk Consent Calendar Second Day — 770 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Quirk — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
  • 2020-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
  • 2020-02-24 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
  • 2020-03-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
  • 2020-05-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
  • 2020-06-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
  • 2020-06-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
  • 2020-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2020-06-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4800.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
  • 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
  • 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
  • 2020-08-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (August 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
  • 2020-08-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
  • 2020-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2020-08-24 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4292.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
  • 2020-08-24 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
  • 2020-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
  • 2020-08-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2020-08-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 33, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00324263-f429-4d5d-a1a5-92aaca231831. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).