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 05/14/26 - Amended Senate
 03/26/26 - Amended Senate
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1420 Vote by mail ballots and early voting.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/18/2026 09:00 PM

SB1420:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 18, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 May 14, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 26, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1420

Introduced by Senator Richardson

February 20, 2026

 An act to amend Section 9084 of, and to add Section 3016.6 to, the Elections Code, relating to elections, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1420, as amended, Richardson.
 Vote by mail ballots and early voting.

Existing law provides that no later than 29 days before the day of an election, a voter using a vote by mail ballot may, before the polls close, vote the ballot at the office of the elections official or a satellite location. Existing law provides that a voter may vote their vote by mail ballot, without the identification envelope, in person at the office of the county elections official, a satellite location, the polling place designated for the voter’s home precinct, or a vote center, as specified. Existing law provides that for a statewide election, a county that does not conduct an all-mailed ballot election must provide at least one early voting location for at least 6 hours on the Saturday before election day. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to prepare and publish the state voter information guide containing specified information.

This bill would require the Secretary of State to promulgate, and post on its internet website, regulations setting forth specified procedures that would allow a voter to vote their vote by mail ballot in person, including procedures to check in a voter, procedures to verify that the voter’s vote by mail ballot is the correct ballot, procedures to ensure the secrecy of the voter’s ballot, and procedures to ensure that a voter does not submit more than one vote by mail ballot without the identification envelope. In promulgating these regulations, the The bill would require the Secretary of State State, in promulgating
 these regulations, to take into consideration different voting technologies and systems used in other counties, and to consult with county registrars of voters and other election stakeholders. The bill would require the Secretary of State to include information about these vote by mail and early voting procedures in the state voter information guide.

By imposing new duties on county elections officials, 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 the statutory provisions noted above.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 2/3 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 3016.6 is added to the Elections Code, to read:

3016.6.

 (a) The Secretary of State shall promulgate regulations setting forth procedures that a county elections official shall follow to allow a voter to vote their vote by mail ballot in person pursuant to Sections 3016.3 and subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 3016.3 and Section 3016.5. Those procedures must
 shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

(1) Procedures to check in a voter pursuant to the requirements of Section 14216.

(2) Procedures to verify that the voter’s vote by mail ballot is the correct ballot.

(3) Procedures to ensure the secrecy of the voter’s ballot.

(4) Procedures to ensure that a voter does not submit more than one vote by mail ballot without the identification envelope.

(b) In promulgating the regulations pursuant to subdivision (a), the Secretary of