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Bill	Elections: filings.	Existing law establishes procedures for authors to submit arguments for and against local ballot measures, and rebuttals to those arguments, in accordance with deadlines set by local elections officials. Existing law requires elections officials to select arguments from those submitted for publication in the voter information guide.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 773	California AB 773 (20232024)	bill	Elections filings	enacted	Pellerin	6	22	6	2023-02-13	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/1126901a-5f73-4b1c-a588-3528614ed5de	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB773	1ad18657277ccfc860a6f5ebe73ced483680dbb57d63d0de8ba58ab3f5b116d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 773 (20232024) — Elections: filings.

Existing law establishes procedures for authors to submit arguments for and against local ballot measures, and rebuttals to those arguments, in accordance with deadlines set by local elections officials. Existing law requires elections officials to select arguments from those submitted for publication in the voter information guide.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/24/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/21/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB773 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 773 Pellerin Assembly Third Reading — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 773 Pellerin Concurrence - Urgency Added — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB773 Pellerin et al. By Limón Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pellerin — primary (person)
• Connolly — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Laird — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Pacheco — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2023-02-23 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (April 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1485.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-17 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2023-05-24 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
• 2023-06-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2373.). 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 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3022.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 664, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1126901a-5f73-4b1c-a588-3528614ed5de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).