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Bill	Voter registration: residency confirmation.	(1) Existing law requires a county elections official to conduct a preelection residency confirmation procedure before a primary election by mailing a nonforwardable postcard to each registered voter of the county. However, existing law authorizes the county elections official to exclude from this residency confirmation procedure a voter who has voted at an election held within the last six months preceding the start of the procedure, or a person who has preregistered but will not be 18 years of age on or before the date of the primary election.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 504	California AB 504 (20192020)	bill	Voter registration: residency confirmation.	enacted	Berman	8	24	6	2019-02-13	2019-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/0eec52e9-6bc4-4d4f-adf0-220e283e0a56	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB504	abc8f9009b8e332b33fa4cfde62237295c6b66b8b910ca122b0e0c96aab4f8c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 504 (20192020) — Voter registration: residency confirmation.

(1) Existing law requires a county elections official to conduct a preelection residency confirmation procedure before a primary election by mailing a nonforwardable postcard to each registered voter of the county. However, existing law authorizes the county elections official to exclude from this residency confirmation procedure a voter who has voted at an election held within the last six months preceding the start of the procedure, or a person who has preregistered but will not be 18 years of age on or before the date of the primary election.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/04/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB504 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/27/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 504 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB504 Berman By Nielsen — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 504 Berman Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2019-02-21 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 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
• 2019-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (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 1475.) 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
• 2019-05-28 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-04 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2240.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-08-26 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2835.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 262, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0eec52e9-6bc4-4d4f-adf0-220e283e0a56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).