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 09/12/25 - Enrolled
 08/28/25 - Amended Senate
 07/03/25 - Amended Senate
 03/10/25 - Introduced

 AB-1513 Election procedures: certified mail and superior courts.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/06/2025 02:00 PM

AB1513:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 1513

 CHAPTER 304

 An act to amend Sections 12, 5200, 11000, 11001, 11002, 11003, 11004, 11221, 13113, 15621, 16442, 16462, and 16464 of the Elections Code, relating to elections.

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 October 03, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 October 03, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1513, Committee on Elections.
 Election procedures: certified mail and superior courts.

(1) Existing law requires specified notices, affidavits, and communications regarding elections to be delivered by registered mail.

This bill would instead require delivery by certified mail or, for certain communications between local officials and the Secretary of State, by electronic delivery. By imposing new duties on local officials with respect to elections, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

(2) Existing law provides procedures for the recall of enumerated elective officers, including, among others, trial court judges.

This bill would replace references to trial courts in these provisions with references to superior courts.

(3) This
 bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 15621 of the Elections Code proposed by Assembly Bill 930 to be operative only if this bill and Assembly Bill 930 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

(4) 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 the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 12 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

12.

 Whenever any candidate files a declaration of candidacy, nomination paper, or any other paper evidencing an intention to be a candidate for any public office at any election in this state with either the Secretary of State or a county elections official, the candidate shall by the filing irrevocably appoint the Secretary of State or the county elections official with whom the filing is made, and their successors in office, the candidate’s attorneys upon whom all process in any action or proceeding against the candidate concerning the candidacy or the election laws may be served with the same effect as if the candidate had been lawfully served with process. The appointment shall continue until the day of the election.

If in any action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with any matters concerning the
 candidate’s candidacy or the election laws it is shown by affidavit to the satisfaction of a court or judge that personal service of process against the candidate cannot be made with the exercise of due diligence, the court or judge may make an order that the service be made upon the candidate by delivering by hand to the Secretary of State or the county elections official appointed as the candidate’s attorney for service of process, or to any person employed in the office of the Secretary of State or the county elections official in the capacity of assistant or deputy, one copy of the process for the defendant to be served, together with a copy of the order authorizing the service. Service in this manner constitutes personal service upon the candidate. The Secretary of State and the county elections officials of all counties shall keep a record of all process served upon them under this section, and shall record therein the time of service and their action with reference thereto.

Upon the receipt of service of process the Secretary of State or the county elections official shall immediately give notice of the service of the process to the candidate by forwarding the copy of the process