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type: "Bill"
title: "Election procedures: certified mail and superior courts."
description: "(1) Existing law requires specified notices, affidavits, and communications regarding elections to be delivered by registered mail."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 1513"
citation: "California AB 1513 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electionprocedures", "certifiedmailandsuperiorcourts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Elections"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-03-10"
last_action: "2025-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b16af3f-f261-4bfd-9aca-6aa360d66a2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1513"
source_hash: "fa345e5546ba728d84a612d08e1c06fd2d8f20fe0d77a46b4d2ea5b399523080"
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 1513 (20252026) — Election procedures: certified mail and superior courts.
(1) Existing law requires specified notices, affidavits, and communications regarding elections to be delivered by registered mail.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **03/10/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1513&version=20250AB151399INT)
2. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1513&version=20250AB151398AMD)
3. **08/28/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1513&version=20250AB151397AMD)
4. **10/03/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1513&version=20250AB151395CHP)
5. **AB1513** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1513)
6. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1513&version=20250AB151396ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **70** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1513 ELECTIONS (Pellerin) By Cervantes — **380** (pass) · upper
- AB 1513 Elections Concurrence in Senate Amendments By PELLERIN — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
- AB 1513 Elections Consent Calendar Second Day — **690** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Elections — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-11** From printer. May be heard in committee April 10.
- **2025-03-17** Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1487.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-21** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** 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`
- **2025-07-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** From Consent Calendar.
- **2025-08-25** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-08-28** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2610.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3183.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 304, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b16af3f-f261-4bfd-9aca-6aa360d66a2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).