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Bill	Elections: petition records and requests: vote-by-mail ballot.	(1) Existing law authorizes a voter who has signed an initiative, referendum, or recall petition to remove their name from the petition by filing a written request to do so with the appropriate elections official prior to the day the petition is filed. Existing law requires the written request to include the voter's name, residence address, and signature.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2967	California AB 2967 (20212022)	bill	Elections: petition records and requests: vote-by-mail ballot.	enacted	Committee on Elections	4	17	5	2022-03-16	2022-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/0866739b-4a19-498c-a106-475b5819a348	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2967	b8283ea29c68033fc180b5aa346d32e73cc6004f805ebd19fbbb81831a0a01a6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2967 (20212022) — Elections: petition records and requests: vote-by-mail ballot.

(1) Existing law authorizes a voter who has signed an initiative, referendum, or recall petition to remove their name from the petition by filing a written request to do so with the appropriate elections official prior to the day the petition is filed. Existing law requires the written request to include the voter's name, residence address, and signature.

Version chain

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

1. 03/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB2967 (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/09/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar AB2967 ELECTIONS — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2967 ELECTIONS Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Elections — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-03-17 From printer. May be heard in committee April 16.
• 2022-03-24 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
• 2022-05-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5036.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 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
• 2022-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4683.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-08 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2022-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 166, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0866739b-4a19-498c-a106-475b5819a348. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).