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Bill	Elections: ballot label.	Existing law defines the ballot label as the portion of the ballot containing the names of the candidates or a statement of a measure. For statewide measures, existing law requires the Attorney General to prepare a condensed version of the ballot title and summary, including the fiscal impact summary prepared by the Legislative Analyst that is printed in the state voter information guide.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1416	California AB 1416 (20212022)	bill	Elections: ballot label.	enacted	Santiago	9	29	9	2021-02-19	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/70d4efce-6094-4832-8246-6f98ce557084	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1416	24b8ea0ea2e71f2511034435510e3e38eb2ded04dbad61aeb821ffdc687a50e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1416 (20212022) — Elections: ballot label.

Existing law defines the ballot label as the portion of the ballot containing the names of the candidates or a statement of a measure. For statewide measures, existing law requires the Attorney General to prepare a condensed version of the ballot title and summary, including the fiscal impact summary prepared by the Legislative Analyst that is printed in the state voter information guide.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/27/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/18/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1416 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1416 Santiago et al. By Stern — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1416 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — 57–19 (pass) · lower
• AB 1416 Santiago Assembly Third Reading Amendment Set #1 — 53–15 (pass) · lower
• AB 1416 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)
• Allen — principal coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Bennett — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
• Chiu — author (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Lorena Gonzalez — author (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — principal coauthor (person)
• Mullin — principal coauthor (person)
• Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
• Stern — principal coauthor (person)
• Umberg — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-01-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (January 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 3397.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-01-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 19. Page 3427.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-02-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 17.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 751, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70d4efce-6094-4832-8246-6f98ce557084. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).