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Bill	Voter registration: cancellation.	Existing law requires a county elections official to cancel a person's voter registration in certain circumstances, including when a person is deemed mentally incompetent, upon proof that the person is presently imprisoned for conviction of a felony, upon the death of the person, and when a person fails to respond to an address verification mailed by the elections official and does not attempt to vote at the next two federal general elections. Existing law requires the elections official to provide notice of the intent to cancel the person's registration between 15 and 30 days before the cancellation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2951	California AB 2951 (20232024)	bill	Voter registration cancellation	enacted	Cervantes	8	27	7	2024-02-16	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/2f39daf6-7cd7-48ee-bb27-d0a22ef1e204	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2951	35363ae9a95e63e4e37f805fe1bf630d154193cd1104bf339a38c8b4e00b023c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2951 (20232024) — Voter registration: cancellation.

Existing law requires a county elections official to cancel a person's voter registration in certain circumstances, including when a person is deemed mentally incompetent, upon proof that the person is presently imprisoned for conviction of a felony, upon the death of the person, and when a person fails to respond to an address verification mailed by the elections official and does not attempt to vote at the next two federal general elections. Existing law requires the elections official to provide notice of the intent to cancel the person's registration between 15 and 30 days before the cancellation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/10/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/27/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2951 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2951 Cervantes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2951 Cervantes Consent Calendar Second Day — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2951 Cervantes et al. By Allen — 31–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cervantes — primary (person)
• Low — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2024-03-11 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5161.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-22 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2024-06-10 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
• 2024-06-27 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
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 8.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-28 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2024-08-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2024-08-29 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage
• 2024-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 424, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2f39daf6-7cd7-48ee-bb27-d0a22ef1e204. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).