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Bill Elections: County of Santa Clara. Under existing law, specified county officers are required to be elected by the voters in that county. Existing law generally requires the election to select county officers to be held with a statewide primary election, but if no candidate for a county office receives a majority of the votes cast for that office at the primary election, the 2 candidates who received the most votes advance to the ensuing statewide general election. us/states/ca California Legislature 20232024 AB 1227 California AB 1227 (20232024)
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California AB 1227 (20232024) — Elections: County of Santa Clara.

Under existing law, specified county officers are required to be elected by the voters in that county. Existing law generally requires the election to select county officers to be held with a statewide primary election, but if no candidate for a county office receives a majority of the votes cast for that office at the primary election, the 2 candidates who received the most votes advance to the ensuing statewide general election.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/16/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 04/24/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  3. 06/15/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  4. 08/24/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  5. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  6. AB1227 (committee substitute) — source
  7. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Do pass as amended. — 50 (pass) · lower
  • AB 1227 Low Assembly Third Reading — 670 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass — 60 (pass) · upper
  • 3rd Reading AB1227 Low et al. By Cortese — 317 (pass) · upper
  • AB 1227 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 690 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Low — primary (person)
  • Becker — coauthor (person)
  • Cortese — coauthor (person)
  • Lee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
  • 2023-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
  • 2023-03-02 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
  • 2023-03-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  • 2023-04-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
  • 2023-04-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
  • 2023-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2023-05-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 1410.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2023-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
  • 2023-05-10 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
  • 2023-06-15 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
  • 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-07-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2023-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2023-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2023-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2370.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2023-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
  • 2023-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 3076.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
  • 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 362, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d8bf7b0c-b9a3-4014-bd74-635b55fdb151. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).