Bill Text: CA SB1063 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Voter registration: juvenile detention facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 624, Statutes of 2014. [SB1063 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1063-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1063	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Block

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2014

   An act to  amend   add  Section 
2105.5 of   2105.7 to  the Elections Code,
relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1063, as amended, Block.  Voting rights guide:
incarcerated persons.   Voter registration: juvenile
detention facilities.  
   Under existing law, a person is entitled to register to vote if he
or she is a United States citizen, a resident of California, not in
prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony, and will be at
least 18 years of age at the time of the next election.  
   This bill would require state and local juvenile detention
facilities to identify individuals housed in those facilities who are
of age to register to vote, to assist those individuals in
determining their eligibility for registration, to provide voter
registration cards to eligible voters, and to transmit the completed
voter registration cards to the county elections official.  

   By requiring local officials to perform additional duties, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.  
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.  
    Existing law requires each county probation department to either
establish and maintain on the county probation department's Internet
Web site a hyperlink to the Secretary of State's voting rights guide
for incarcerated persons or post a notice with the Internet Web site
address that contains the Secretary of State's voting rights guide
for incarcerated persons in each probation office where probationers
are seen.  
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision of
law. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program:  no
  yes  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 2105.7 is added to the 
 Elections Code   , to read:  
   2105.7.  (a) A state or local juvenile detention facility,
including, but not limited to, a juvenile hall, juvenile ranch,
juvenile camp, or a facility of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice, shall do all of the
following:
   (1) Identify each individual housed in the facility who is of age
to register to vote.
   (2) Assist each individual identified pursuant to paragraph (1) in
determining if he or she is entitled to register to vote, within the
meaning of Section 2101.
   (3) Provide a voter registration card to each individual housed in
the facility who is entitled to register to vote but is not
currently registered to vote.
   (4) Accept any completed voter registration cards and transmit the
cards to the county elections official pursuant to the requirements
of subdivision (b).
   (b) A facility providing voter registration cards pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall transmit a completed card to the county
elections official as follows:
   (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), within 10 days of receipt
from an individual housed in the facility.
   (2) Within five days of receipt from an individual housed in the
facility, if the voter registration card was received within five
days before the last day for registration to vote in an election.
   (c) A state or local juvenile detention facility is encouraged to
work with the Secretary of State to achieve compliance with the
requirements set forth in the federal National Voter Registration Act
of 1993 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973gg et seq.) when providing voter
registration services pursuant to subdivision (a). 
   SEC. 2.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 2105.5 of the Elections Code
is amended to read:
   2105.5.  Each county probation department shall do either of the
following:
   (a) Establish and maintain on the county probation department's
Internet Web site a hyperlink to the Internet Web site at which the
Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may
be found.
   (b) Post, in each probation office where probationers are seen, a
notice that contains the Internet Web site address at which the
Secretary of State's voting rights guide for incarcerated persons may
be found.