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Bill	Elections: election worker protections.	Existing law makes interfering in any manner with the officers holding an election or conducting a canvass or with a voter lawfully exercising their right of voting at an election, in order to prevent the election or canvass from being fairly held and lawfully conducted, a crime punishable by imprisonment for 16 months or 2 or 3 years.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 485	California SB 485 (20232024)	bill	Elections election worker protections	enacted	Becker	12	38	11	2023-02-14	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c09ea39b-4968-4c07-9aa0-6737f7e9c244	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB485	2702284e3b855efa2e6e25ade200afe8e4dddb2fc43786bbecf8de1b0a0e3c64	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 485 (20232024) — Elections: election worker protections.

Existing law makes interfering in any manner with the officers holding an election or conducting a canvass or with a voter lawfully exercising their right of voting at an election, in order to prevent the election or canvass from being fairly held and lawfully conducted, a crime punishable by imprisonment for 16 months or 2 or 3 years.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/30/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/19/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/22/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/06/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/14/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. SB485 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 485 Becker Senate Third Reading By Pellerin — 63–10 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB485 Becker Concurrence — 33–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Becker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2023-03-07 Set for hearing March 29.
• 2023-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 571.) (March 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2023-04-14 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2023-04-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 853.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-05-05 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2023-05-15 May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-16 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1172.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1346.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-22 Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 10. Page 3289.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-12 Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2023-09-12 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 2683.) Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-09-13 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 2770.) committee-passage
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 7. Page 2838.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 611, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c09ea39b-4968-4c07-9aa0-6737f7e9c244. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).