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Bill	Vote by mail ballots: processing.	Existing law requires elections officials to begin mailing ballots to every registered voter no later than 29 days before an election. Existing law authorizes a jurisdiction to begin processing vote by mail ballot return envelopes and, if the jurisdiction has the necessary computer capability, vote by mail ballots 29 days before an election.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 16	California AB 16 (20252026)	bill	Votebymailballots processing	enacted	Alanis	6	24	5	2024-12-02	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/08203b64-bcb0-4d44-973d-7c36f684d50e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB16	f1cc7a59073105a5833b4cf372ae07acd37293e5d50105495c80df9374ac4b3e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 16 (20252026) — Vote by mail ballots: processing.

Existing law requires elections officials to begin mailing ballots to every registered voter no later than 29 days before an election. Existing law authorizes a jurisdiction to begin processing vote by mail ballot return envelopes and, if the jurisdiction has the necessary computer capability, vote by mail ballots 29 days before an election.

Version chain

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

1. 12/02/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB16 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB16 Alanis By Alvarado-Gil — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 16 Alanis Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 16 Alanis Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alanis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-12-03 From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2025-04-24 Ordered to second reading.
• 2025-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1428.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-14 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2025-06-09 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-07-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2922.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-13 Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
• 2025-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3495.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 140, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/08203b64-bcb0-4d44-973d-7c36f684d50e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).