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Bill	Canvass of the vote: reporting results.	Existing law requires the official canvass for an election to begin no later than the Thursday following the election and to be continued daily until completed. Existing law requires the elections official to submit a certified statement of the results of the election to the governing body within 30 days of the election, except as specified, and to post the statement on the elections official's internet website. Existing law also requires the elections official, on the 2nd day after the election, to send a report to the Secretary of State containing the estimated number of outstanding unprocessed ballots, and beginning on the 6th day after the election, to send an updated report on any day that the elections official publicly releases updated election results.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 63	California AB 63 (20232024)	bill	Canvass of the vote reporting results	enacted	Cervantes	10	30	8	2022-12-06	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c9697c3a-6163-401c-961a-16919b5f21b0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB63	40433fce0c772824f89a1c642c95727b696d49815483b257ef51963af09d354f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 63 (20232024) — Canvass of the vote: reporting results.

Existing law requires the official canvass for an election to begin no later than the Thursday following the election and to be continued daily until completed. Existing law requires the elections official to submit a certified statement of the results of the election to the governing body within 30 days of the election, except as specified, and to post the statement on the elections official's internet website. Existing law also requires the elections official, on the 2nd day after the election, to send a report to the Secretary of State containing the estimated number of outstanding unprocessed ballots, and beginning on the 6th day after the election, to send an updated report on any day that the elections official publicly releases updated election results.

Version chain

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

1. 12/06/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/30/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/26/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB63 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 63 Cervantes Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB63 Cervantes By Laird — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 63 Cervantes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cervantes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-06 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-12-07 From printer. May be heard in committee January 6.
• 2023-01-04 Read first time. reading-1
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 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
• 2023-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1790.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2023-06-08 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
• 2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2764.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3568.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 514, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9697c3a-6163-401c-961a-16919b5f21b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).