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type: "Bill"
title: "Vote by mail."
description: "Existing law governing elections defines the term \"ballot card\" as meaning a card or a number of cards upon which are printed, or identified by reference to the ballot, the names of candidates for nomination or election to one or more offices or the ballot titles of one or more measures. Existing law requires that the governing board of a community college district submit to the board of supervisors a resolution calling for an election prior to the date of the scheduled election for the governing board members of the community college district. Existing law authorizes voters to vote by mail if certain conditions are shown to be met by application to the elections official having jurisdiction over the election. Existing law provides the procedures for vote by mail voting, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1412"
citation: "California AB 1412 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vote by mail."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Elections and Redistricting"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-03-14"
last_action: "2011-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08d8b7fd-d307-4f14-b46c-c72afa821344"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1412"
source_hash: "f60137a1351a879057c48db63e5236c52fcc9ea9297f2d2a9d56f7121c3fd03e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 1412 (20112012) — Vote by mail.
Existing law governing elections defines the term "ballot card" as meaning a card or a number of cards upon which are printed, or identified by reference to the ballot, the names of candidates for nomination or election to one or more offices or the ballot titles of one or more measures. Existing law requires that the governing board of a community college district submit to the board of supervisors a resolution calling for an election prior to the date of the scheduled election for the governing board members of the community college district. Existing law authorizes voters to vote by mail if certain conditions are shown to be met by application to the elections official having jurisdiction over the election. Existing law provides the procedures for vote by mail voting, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **03/14/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1412&version=20110AB141299INT)
2. **07/25/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1412&version=20110AB141297CHP)
3. **AB1412** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1412)
4. **07/06/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1412&version=20110AB141298ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1412 Committee on E. & R. — **330** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **50** (pass) · upper
- AB 1412 E. & R. Consent Calendar Second Day — **700** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Elections and Redistricting — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2011-03-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-03-15** From printer. May be heard in committee April 14.
- **2011-03-25** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1351.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-26** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-16** Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-22** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1687.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-01** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:45 p.m.
- **2011-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 118, Statutes of 2011.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08d8b7fd-d307-4f14-b46c-c72afa821344`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).