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Bill	Elections.	Existing law requires the gathering of a specified number of signatures by petition to nominate a candidate or qualify a measure or recall for the ballot, among other purposes. Existing law requires elections officials to verify the signatures on a petition in accordance with specified procedures.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 3197	California AB 3197 (20232024)	bill	Elections	enacted	Lackey	7	21	5	2024-02-16	2024-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/8c020eae-b63d-4f23-bcdf-cc8ddc9b6da1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3197	1a2e32616106f633001567c9079da9df4ed11c25aa62dee011bbb9e92c8a12ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3197 (20232024) — Elections.

Existing law requires the gathering of a specified number of signatures by petition to nominate a candidate or qualify a measure or recall for the ballot, among other purposes. Existing law requires elections officials to verify the signatures on a petition in accordance with specified procedures.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB3197 (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/26/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 3197 Lackey Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 3197 Lackey Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lackey — primary (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
• 2024-04-01 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
• 2024-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-04-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-15 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-01 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2024-06-03 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-03 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
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4530.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-17 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-06-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5987.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-07-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 120, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8c020eae-b63d-4f23-bcdf-cc8ddc9b6da1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).