Petition circulator: certification: use of signatures.

Existing law requires a petition circulator, prior to soliciting signatures on an initiative petition, to execute and submit to the person, company official, or other organizational officer who is in charge of signature gathering a signed statement, as specified. Existing law requires the person, company official, or other organizational officer who is in charge of signature gathering for the proposed initiative measure to keep the certification on file for not less than eight months after the certification of the results of the election for which the measure qualified, or if the measure, for any reason, is not submitted to the voters, eight months after the deadline for submission of the petition to the elections official. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.