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type: "Bill"
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title: "Elections: polling places and vote centers."
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description: "Existing law authorizes the governing body with jurisdiction over school buildings or other public buildings, as defined, to allow its buildings to be used for polling places, or for vote centers, beginning up to 10 days before the election and continuing through election day, or to store voting machines and other vote-tabulating devices. Once a governing body has approved the use of a building as a polling place or vote center, existing law requires the governing body to instruct the school district or other public administrator to provide the elections official a site with an adequate amount of space that will allow the precinct board or vote center to perform its duties."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 287"
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citation: "California AB 287 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Elections", "pollingplacesandvotecenters"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2025-01-22"
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last_action: "2025-10-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ec6747e-32a3-4da6-9e33-eacc5c87986d"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB287"
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source_hash: "feb6eff8f5e29c5e8137c508282034651561929b3eb8b2a9914d26e3e9a13390"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 287 (20252026) — Elections: polling places and vote centers.
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Existing law authorizes the governing body with jurisdiction over school buildings or other public buildings, as defined, to allow its buildings to be used for polling places, or for vote centers, beginning up to 10 days before the election and continuing through election day, or to store voting machines and other vote-tabulating devices. Once a governing body has approved the use of a building as a polling place or vote center, existing law requires the governing body to instruct the school district or other public administrator to provide the elections official a site with an adequate amount of space that will allow the precinct board or vote center to perform its duties.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/22/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB287&version=20250AB28799INT)
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2. **10/03/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB287&version=20250AB28797CHP)
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3. **AB287** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB287)
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4. **09/11/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB287&version=20250AB28798ENR)
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## Votes
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- 3rd Reading AB287 Lackey et al. By Umberg — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 287 Lackey Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Lackey — primary (person)
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- Bryan — coauthor (person)
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- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
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- **2025-02-10** Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-26** Coauthors revised.
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- **2025-03-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1032.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-05-07** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-07-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2744.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2025-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2025-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 253, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ec6747e-32a3-4da6-9e33-eacc5c87986d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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