republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-437.md

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Bill	Presidential elections: candidates.	Existing law provides for the statewide election of a slate of electors to vote in the electoral college for the President and Vice President of the United States. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to place the names of each qualified political party's candidates for President and Vice President on the ballot for the ensuing general election.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 437	California SB 437 (20232024)	bill	Presidential elections candidates	enacted	Dodd	4	19	5	2023-02-13	2023-07-13	openstates	ocd-bill/68d6871a-fb37-4bd0-9722-4c794ece158e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB437	e62bdbec6c6462274a295372630828a0782cfe813850c11ff504bee178ae4631	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 437 (20232024) — Presidential elections: candidates.

Existing law provides for the statewide election of a slate of electors to vote in the electoral college for the President and Vice President of the United States. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to place the names of each qualified political party's candidates for President and Vice President on the ballot for the ensuing general election.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. SB437 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 437 Dodd Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2023-03-13 Set for hearing March 21.
• 2023-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 424.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 700.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-17 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-04 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2427.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-28 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2023-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 72, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68d6871a-fb37-4bd0-9722-4c794ece158e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).