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Bill	Elections.	Prior law, the California Voter's Choice Act, required the Secretary of State to establish a taskforce that included certain individuals to review all-mailed ballot or vote center elections and to provide comments and recommendations to the Legislature within 6 months of each all-mailed ballot election or vote center election. The act was repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2022.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1450	California SB 1450 (20232024)	bill	Elections	enacted	Allen	6	27	10	2024-02-16	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/4c7b3f64-6a87-400d-8c94-686dc54c3a51	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1450	337c7c5e9f0681c650044bd0b442729a3930ea118e9040cbc574e660d506daa1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1450 (20232024) — Elections.

Prior law, the California Voter's Choice Act, required the Secretary of State to establish a taskforce that included certain individuals to review all-mailed ballot or vote center elections and to provide comments and recommendations to the Legislature within 6 months of each all-mailed ballot election or vote center election. The act was repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2022.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/23/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1450 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1450 Allen et al. Concurrence — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1450 Allen Senate Third Reading By Berman — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• [05-16-2024] set for [First] hearing: Reconsideration of favorable vote granted — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 16.
• 2024-04-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3631.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2024-04-29 April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 May 16 set for first hearing. Reconsideration of favorable vote granted.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3984.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4027.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-28 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 7042.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5782.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 480, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c7b3f64-6a87-400d-8c94-686dc54c3a51. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).