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type: "Bill"
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title: "Election crimes: payment based on voting or voter registration."
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description: "Under existing law, it is a crime for a person to receive money or other valuable consideration to assist another to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit of registration if the person fails to sign the affidavit and include certain other information, including the name and telephone number of the person, company, or organization, if any, that has agreed to pay the money or other valuable consideration."
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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: "SB 398"
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citation: "California SB 398 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Electioncrimes", "paymentbasedonvotingorvoterregistration"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Umberg"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 29
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vote_count: 10
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first_action: "2025-02-14"
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last_action: "2025-10-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e76110d5-cc14-4557-ae05-32b6c5c5ced9"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB398"
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source_hash: "ca91110cac15252fa753dd00de68ab0464b097702b8aecd21cf2381c03d316a2"
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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 SB 398 (20252026) — Election crimes: payment based on voting or voter registration.
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Under existing law, it is a crime for a person to receive money or other valuable consideration to assist another to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit of registration if the person fails to sign the affidavit and include certain other information, including the name and telephone number of the person, company, or organization, if any, that has agreed to pay the money or other valuable consideration.
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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. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB398&version=20250SB39899INT)
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2. **04/21/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB398&version=20250SB39898AMD)
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3. **07/03/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB398&version=20250SB39897AMD)
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4. **10/02/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB398&version=20250SB39895CHP)
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5. **SB398** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB398)
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6. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB398&version=20250SB39896ENR)
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## Votes
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- 3rd Reading SB398 Umberg et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 398 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Berman — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- Unfinished Business SB398 Umberg et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Umberg — primary (person)
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- Becker — coauthor (person)
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- Lee — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2025-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
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- **2025-02-26** Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-20** Set for hearing April 1.
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- **2025-04-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 609.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-09** Set for hearing April 22.
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- **2025-04-21** 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`
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- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 841.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-25** Set for hearing May 5.
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- **2025-05-05** May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1199.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1335.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-05** Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2025-08-29** Coauthors revised.
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2993.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2829.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2025-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 246, 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/e76110d5-cc14-4557-ae05-32b6c5c5ced9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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