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Bill	Recall elections.	Existing law authorizes a registered voter of an electoral jurisdiction to seek the recall of an officer of that jurisdiction by publishing or posting a notice of intention to circulate a recall petition. Existing law requires the notice of intention to contain, among other things, a statement of the reasons for the proposed recall and the signatures of a specified number of proponents of the recall. Under existing law, within 7 days of the filing of the notice of intention, the officer sought to be recalled may file an answer to the proponents' statement of reasons for the recall. Existing law requires a recall petition to include, among other things, the notice of intention and the officer's answer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2584	California AB 2584 (20212022)	bill	Recall elections.	enacted	Berman	9	30	9	2022-02-18	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/ea2109d9-cadf-44bb-a11f-90e1d5941387	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2584	f9b8d99a67282bfc21b0663c0d82dc8013930349861599fc5ea29a0fbc2a1d2e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2584 (20212022) — Recall elections.

Existing law authorizes a registered voter of an electoral jurisdiction to seek the recall of an officer of that jurisdiction by publishing or posting a notice of intention to circulate a recall petition. Existing law requires the notice of intention to contain, among other things, a statement of the reasons for the proposed recall and the signatures of a specified number of proponents of the recall. Under existing law, within 7 days of the filing of the notice of intention, the officer sought to be recalled may file an answer to the proponents' statement of reasons for the recall. Existing law requires a recall petition to include, among other things, the notice of intention and the officer's answer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/14/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2584 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2584 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2584 Berman et al. By Newman — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2584 Berman Assembly Third Reading By BENNETT — 54–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Bennett — author (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — author (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Newman — 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
• 2022-04-19 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
• 2022-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-05-02 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 19.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 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
• 2022-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5073.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 15.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 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 791, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea2109d9-cadf-44bb-a11f-90e1d5941387. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).