republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-970.md

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Bill	Primary election date.	Existing law requires that the statewide direct primary be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March in each even-numbered year. Existing law requires that the presidential primary be held on that same date in any year that is evenly divisible by 4.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 970	California SB 970 (20192020)	bill	Primary election date.	enacted	Umberg	7	25	5	2020-02-11	2020-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/4e646a15-76f0-4c26-949b-8199975572b8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB970	3441ef2d00726d970ee4f0cc269612441b24637fc65c11a3069b6dab5b9a3378	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 970 (20192020) — Primary election date.

Existing law requires that the statewide direct primary be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March in each even-numbered year. Existing law requires that the presidential primary be held on that same date in any year that is evenly divisible by 4.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/11/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/18/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB970 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 970 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Berman — 66–5 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB970 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)
• Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
• Berman — author (person)
• Rendon — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-11 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-02-12 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
• 2020-02-20 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2020-03-17 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
• 2020-05-11 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
• 2020-05-13 Set for hearing May 19.
• 2020-05-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3559.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-26 Set for hearing June 1.
• 2020-05-29 June 1 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-29 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
• 2020-06-03 Set for hearing June 9.
• 2020-06-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-06-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3684.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2020-06-18 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2020-07-08 July 13 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-07-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 5. Page 5171.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-24 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2020-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 111, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e646a15-76f0-4c26-949b-8199975572b8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).