republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-2314.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Native American Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee."
description: "Existing law designates the Secretary of State as the chief elections officer of the state and requires the Secretary of State to make reasonable efforts to promote voter registration and encourage eligible voters to vote."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2314"
citation: "California AB 2314 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Native American Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ramos"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-14"
last_action: "2020-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a059848-9260-45f7-9114-a505c2ff2061"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2314"
source_hash: "fedcbee0d6e421f2630885eb7603fdb1238208bbc0f1051957acc0896929e935"
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 2314 (20192020) — Native American Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee.

Existing law designates the Secretary of State as the chief elections officer of the state and requires the Secretary of State to make reasonable efforts to promote voter registration and encourage eligible voters to vote.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2314&version=20190AB231499INT)
2. **07/27/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2314&version=20190AB231498AMD)
3. **09/25/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2314&version=20190AB231496CHP)
4. **AB2314** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2314)
5. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2314&version=20190AB231497ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2314 Ramos Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2314 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2314 Ramos Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ramos — primary (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2020-02-24** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-13** Coauthors revised.
- **2020-05-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** Coauthors revised.
- **2020-06-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4753.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-13** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4377.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5354.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 169, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a059848-9260-45f7-9114-a505c2ff2061`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).