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Bill	Conditional voter registration: provisional ballots.	Existing law authorizes an elector who is otherwise qualified to register to vote to complete a conditional voter registration and cast a provisional ballot during the 14 days immediately preceding an election or on election day, as prescribed. A county elections official is required to offer conditional voter registration and provisional voting at all permanent offices of the county elections official in the county in accordance with specified procedures. Existing law also permits the county elections official to offer conditional voter registration and provisional voting at satellite offices of the county elections office.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 72	California SB 72 (20192020)	bill	Conditional voter registration: provisional ballots.	enacted	Umberg	8	28	8	2019-01-10	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c4b1a553-2ad6-4793-8694-c12dacf24535	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB72	396102da3d2b1bf14e9b3bd3b56785871e7ab338ebf7f46bfd9a1ba4cf7f986d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 72 (20192020) — Conditional voter registration: provisional ballots.

Existing law authorizes an elector who is otherwise qualified to register to vote to complete a conditional voter registration and cast a provisional ballot during the 14 days immediately preceding an election or on election day, as prescribed. A county elections official is required to offer conditional voter registration and provisional voting at all permanent offices of the county elections official in the county in accordance with specified procedures. Existing law also permits the county elections official to offer conditional voter registration and provisional voting at satellite offices of the county elections office.

Version chain

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

1. 01/10/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/04/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB72 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB72 Umberg et al. Concurrence — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB72 Umberg et al. — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• SB 72 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Gonzalez — 62–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–4 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-01-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2019-03-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2019-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 523.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-22 April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1089.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 1196.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-05-30 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-21 August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 17. Page 3188.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2829.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 565, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4b1a553-2ad6-4793-8694-c12dacf24535. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).