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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 1512: Elections: ballot language.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 1512 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on March 10, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Elections: ballot language. Primary sponsor: Committee on Elections. Most recent recorded action (October 3, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 303, Statutes of 2025.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law specifies the format of language printed on ballots for various ballot measures relating to local governments, including cities, counties, school districts, and other special districts.

This bill would revise these ballot language requirements. The bill would generally require the words “Yes” and “No” to be printed on separate lines of the ballot, with voting targets, to the right of or below the description of the proposal to be voted on.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on ElectionsPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)Assembly—

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 303, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  4. In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2249.).
  6. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  7. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 15).
  8. Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
  9. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  10. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1488.)
  11. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  12. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page