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Bill	Elections: voting systems.	Existing law specifies procedures for manual vote counts for a semifinal official canvass in a precinct, including, among others, after the polls have closed, commencing a public count of the ballots cast, unopened, to ascertain whether the number of ballots corresponds with the number of signatures on the roster. These manual vote count procedures apply to all elections in which ballots are counted by hand. Ballots counted manually in a central place are required to be counted by precinct, separately, under the direction of the elections official or their authorized deputies, in the same manner as provided where ballots are counted at the polling place.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 969	California AB 969 (20232024)	bill	Elections voting systems	enacted	Pellerin	9	32	7	2023-02-14	2023-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/9e5a8acc-87e7-4876-b734-39ebe3a62244	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB969	d8457c5dbcef421b0f534d1db7c90f999910fd5d560f80ecc2fe4d773d8c247f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 969 (20232024) — Elections: voting systems.

Existing law specifies procedures for manual vote counts for a semifinal official canvass in a precinct, including, among others, after the polls have closed, commencing a public count of the ballots cast, unopened, to ascertain whether the number of ballots corresponds with the number of signatures on the roster. These manual vote count procedures apply to all elections in which ballots are counted by hand. Ballots counted manually in a central place are required to be counted by precinct, separately, under the direction of the elections official or their authorized deputies, in the same manner as provided where ballots are counted at the polling place.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/04/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB969 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/08/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 969 Pellerin Assembly Third Reading — 62–9 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 969 Pellerin Concurrence - Urgency Added — 62–14 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB969 Pellerin et al. By Glazer Urgency Clause — 31–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pellerin — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — principal coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 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. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 9. Page 1360.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-10 Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-06-13 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2023-06-20 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 2371.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-06 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2023-09-06 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 2967.)
• 2023-09-07 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (September 7). committee-passage
• 2023-09-08 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 14. Page 3121.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 300, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e5a8acc-87e7-4876-b734-39ebe3a62244. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).