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Bill	Elections: double voting.	Existing law permits a person to vote at any election held within the territory within which the person resides and the election is held if the person is qualified and registered to vote. If a person is entitled to vote at an election, existing law makes voting more than once, or attempting to vote more than once, a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1539	California AB 1539 (20232024)	bill	Elections double voting	enacted	Berman	5	23	8	2023-02-17	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/44b84462-4c9b-4726-aae9-939304c7fbb1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1539	5fc73f03ee8fcd35fba599ca184ec3719c52d0d91598ebe80ae439af8b1ae407	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1539 (20232024) — Elections: double voting.

Existing law permits a person to vote at any election held within the territory within which the person resides and the election is held if the person is qualified and registered to vote. If a person is entitled to vote at an election, existing law makes voting more than once, or attempting to vote more than once, a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1539 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1539 Berman Consent Calendar Second Day — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB1539 Berman et al. By Umberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Berman — primary (person)
• Essayli — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-23 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1524.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-24 Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2690.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 692, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44b84462-4c9b-4726-aae9-939304c7fbb1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).