republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-646.md

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Bill	Elections: voter eligibility.	Existing law prohibits a person who is on parole for the conviction of a felony from voting, registering to vote, or preregistering to vote.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 646	California AB 646 (20192020)	bill	Elections: voter eligibility.	enacted	McCarty	7	26	8	2019-02-15	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/4d59eebb-2a3c-4f5a-92a1-e1b9229289ec	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB646	402d506f961ffd335e11161d57bcfa5170b2898fd30114ceb6efc1625b919e98	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 646 (20192020) — Elections: voter eligibility.

Existing law prohibits a person who is on parole for the conviction of a felony from voting, registering to vote, or preregistering to vote.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/23/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/13/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/08/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB646 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 646 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 51–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB646 McCarty et al. By Hertzberg — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• AB 646 McCarty Assembly Third Reading — 48–20 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2019-02-25 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-03-13 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
• 2019-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-01-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (January 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-01-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 3893.)
• 2020-01-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 20. Page 3938.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2020-07-08 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
• 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 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 4399.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 5347.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 320, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d59eebb-2a3c-4f5a-92a1-e1b9229289ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).