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CaliforniaAB 12492025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Replacement ballots.

Sponsored By: Lori Wilson (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Stronger protections at polling places

The law sets a 100-foot no-campaigning zone around polling places, elections offices, satellite sites, and outdoor ballot casting or drop areas while voting occurs. People may not display or play campaign messages, circulate petitions, block access, loiter near drop boxes, or talk to voters about marking ballots in that area or while voters wait in line. Photographing or recording voters entering or leaving is also banned. Breaking the 100-foot petition and electioneering rules is a misdemeanor. Trying to dissuade someone from voting near these sites is a crime, with up to 12 months in county jail or time in state prison; conspiring is a felony. Interfering with election officers or voters is punishable by 16 months, 2 years, or 3 years. Using or threatening force or intimidation to influence a vote is a felony with the same terms. These rules cover in-person voting, vote-by-mail, and returning voted ballots, and protect the Secretary of State, elections staff, temporary workers, and poll workers.

Easier in-person and early voting

You can vote your mail ballot in person at the county office or a satellite site. This starts no later than 29 days before election day and runs until polls close. Early voting sites must have at least one accessible, approved voting machine, and counties must give at least two weeks’ notice before opening a satellite site. At these sites, you can return a mail ballot, register or update registration, use conditional registration, vote provisionally, and get a replacement ballot if the county confirms it has not received one from you. You may cast a mail ballot in person without the envelope if staff have real-time system access, confirm you have not already returned one, change your status to in-person, and record your name, address, and signature. That ballot is counted as a regular ballot. For statewide elections, counties not using the vote-center model must open at least one early voting site on the Saturday before election day for six or more hours. The law also repeals Elections Code section 3018.

Colleges must share voting information

Each California Community College and CSU campus sends a campuswide email in the first month of every term with key voting dates and how to register. One month before each statewide election, campuses email students links to official voter tools and note the info applies to the campus county. Campuses add these civic dates to printed and online academic calendars. They post social media reminders about early voting, conditional registration, and election day, and share the voter guide and county sample ballot. Each campus names a Civic and Voter Empowerment Coordinator to run this work in a nonpartisan way. Campuses hold at least three election outreach events each year, with one within 30 days before each statewide primary and general election in even-numbered years. The coordinator creates an action plan with faculty, students, and administrators, shares it with the Secretary of State, and updates it as needed. The law notes an initial submission by December 1, 2020.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Lori Wilson

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 182 • No: 55

House vote • 9/10/2025

Item 285 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 60 • No: 18

Senate vote • 9/9/2025

Item 158 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 30 • No: 10

legislature vote • 8/29/2025

Vote in CS61

Yes: 5 • No: 2

legislature vote • 8/18/2025

Vote in CS61

Yes: 7 • No: 0

legislature vote • 7/15/2025

Vote in CS45

Yes: 4 • No: 1

House vote • 6/4/2025

Item 53 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 60 • No: 19

legislature vote • 5/23/2025

Vote in CX25

Yes: 11 • No: 3

legislature vote • 4/9/2025

Vote in CX04

Yes: 5 • No: 2

Actions Timeline

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 296, Statutes of 2025.

    10/3/2025Senate

  2. Approved by the Governor.

    10/3/2025legislature

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

    9/22/2025legislature

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 18. Page 3247.).

    9/10/2025House

  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

    9/9/2025House

  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2659.).

    9/9/2025Senate

  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    8/29/2025Senate

  8. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).

    8/29/2025Senate

  9. In committee: Referred to suspense file.

    8/18/2025Senate

  10. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    7/16/2025Senate

  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 15).

    7/15/2025Senate

  12. Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.

    6/18/2025Senate

  13. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    6/5/2025Senate

  14. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 19. Page 2060.)

    6/4/2025House

  15. Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1789.)

    5/29/2025House

  16. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    5/27/2025House

  17. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 23).

    5/23/2025House

  18. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

    4/30/2025House

  19. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    4/23/2025House

  20. Read second time and amended.

    4/22/2025House

  21. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 9).

    4/21/2025House

  22. Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.

    3/25/2025House

  23. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended.

    3/24/2025House

  24. Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.

    3/24/2025House

  25. Read first time.

    2/24/2025House

Bill Text

  • Chaptered

    10/3/2025

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  • Enrolled

    9/12/2025

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  • Amended Senate

    7/16/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    5/29/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    4/22/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    3/24/2025

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  • Introduced

    2/21/2025

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