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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated persons."
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description: "Existing law provides that in order to be entitled to register to vote a person must be a United States citizen, a resident of California, 18 years of age, and not be incarcerated or on parole for a felony conviction. Existing law also requires each county probation department to either establish and maintain on the county probation department's Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons or post a notice with the Internet Web site address that contains the Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons in each probation office where probationers are seen."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20132014"
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identifier: "AB 2243"
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citation: "California AB 2243 (20132014)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated persons."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Weber"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2014-02-21"
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last_action: "2014-09-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64ae47c8-1e93-4212-a6b0-edc340f25571"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2243"
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source_hash: "fd0c4f9e326e7f9cdcc6ea642b0ee055f806cb0faac188763a8dbd0272b0c7b7"
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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 2243 (20132014) — Elections: voting rights guide: incarcerated persons.
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Existing law provides that in order to be entitled to register to vote a person must be a United States citizen, a resident of California, 18 years of age, and not be incarcerated or on parole for a felony conviction. Existing law also requires each county probation department to either establish and maintain on the county probation department's Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons or post a notice with the Internet Web site address that contains the Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons in each probation office where probationers are seen.
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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. **02/21/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2243&version=20130AB224399INT)
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2. **09/30/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2243&version=20130AB224397CHP)
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3. **AB2243** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2243)
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4. **08/18/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2243&version=20130AB224398ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 2243 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — **59–13** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB2243 Weber By Block — **22–10** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Weber — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2014-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
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- **2014-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
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- **2014-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
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- **2014-03-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-04-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2014-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-04-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 13. Page 4474.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2014-04-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2014-05-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-06-30** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
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- **2014-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-08-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 10. Page 4494.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2014-08-14** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2014-08-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2014-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2014-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 899, Statutes of 2014.
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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/64ae47c8-1e93-4212-a6b0-edc340f25571`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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