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Bill Voting: ballots and signature verification. (1) Existing law requires an elections official, upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, to verify the signature on the identification envelope by comparing it with the signature on specified records within the voter's registration record. Existing law requires the elections official, if the signatures do not compare or if the voter fails to sign the identification envelope, to provide a voter the opportunity to verify the voter's signature by signing and returning a signature verification statement or an unsigned ballot statement, which the elections official will use instead to compare signatures. Existing law requires an elections official to use the same procedures for comparing signatures for provisional ballots that are used for comparing signatures for vote by mail ballots. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to promulgate guidelines for county elections officials relating to the foregoing provisions. us/states/ca California Legislature 20212022 SB 503 California SB 503 (20212022)
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California SB 503 (20212022) — Voting: ballots and signature verification.

(1) Existing law requires an elections official, upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, to verify the signature on the identification envelope by comparing it with the signature on specified records within the voter's registration record. Existing law requires the elections official, if the signatures do not compare or if the voter fails to sign the identification envelope, to provide a voter the opportunity to verify the voter's signature by signing and returning a signature verification statement or an unsigned ballot statement, which the elections official will use instead to compare signatures. Existing law requires an elections official to use the same procedures for comparing signatures for provisional ballots that are used for comparing signatures for vote by mail ballots. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to promulgate guidelines for county elections officials relating to the foregoing provisions.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 03/09/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  3. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  4. 06/15/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  5. 07/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  6. 07/15/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  7. 09/27/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  8. SB503 (committee substitute) — source
  9. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
  • Unfinished Business SB503 Becker Concurrence — 29–8 (pass) · upper
  • 3rd Reading — 31–8 (pass) · upper
  • Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
  • SB 503 Becker Senate Third Reading By Berman — 59–18 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Becker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
  • 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
  • 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
  • 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
  • 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
  • 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
  • 2021-03-04 Set for hearing March 15.
  • 2021-03-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
  • 2021-03-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 499.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2021-03-16 Set for hearing March 22.
  • 2021-03-22 March 22 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  • 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
  • 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1194.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
  • 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 1339.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
  • 2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
  • 2021-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
  • 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
  • 2021-07-14 July 14 hearing postponed by committee.
  • 2021-07-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
  • 2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 18. Page 2710.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2021-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  • 2021-09-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2377.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
  • 2021-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2021-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 319, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0ab71215-011b-467d-a5a5-08059a156d75. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).

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