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Bill	Elections: uniform filing forms.	Existing law prohibits a candidate's name from being printed on a primary election ballot unless the candidate delivers, by the 88th day before the primary election, a declaration of candidacy and nomination papers signed by a specified number of voters to the elections official in the county for which the documents were circulated. Existing law requires a candidate to deliver the declaration of candidacy to the elections official of the candidate's county of residence and to deliver nomination papers to the elections official of the county in which the signer resides.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2577	California AB 2577 (20212022)	bill	Elections: uniform filing forms.	enacted	Bigelow	6	23	6	2022-02-18	2022-08-15	openstates	ocd-bill/09a49404-3ba0-4778-83b9-de2aa79a4b0e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2577	4971c766887050c54d2496e743987ab8c99da5c8fea1a95a069bbf2ca1008304	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2577 (20212022) — Elections: uniform filing forms.

Existing law prohibits a candidate's name from being printed on a primary election ballot unless the candidate delivers, by the 88th day before the primary election, a declaration of candidacy and nomination papers signed by a specified number of voters to the elections official in the county for which the documents were circulated. Existing law requires a candidate to deliver the declaration of candidacy to the elections official of the candidate's county of residence and to deliver nomination papers to the elections official of the county in which the signer resides.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/08/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2577 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2577 Bigelow Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB2577 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2577 Bigelow Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bigelow — primary (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-04-18 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
• 2022-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4882.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-27 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4575.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5707.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-08-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-08-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 148, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/09a49404-3ba0-4778-83b9-de2aa79a4b0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).