Initiative petitions.

The California Constitution authorizes an initiative measure to be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition of the proposed statute or constitutional amendment that is certified to have been signed by a certain percentage of electors. Existing law requires each section of a petition to be filed with the elections official of the county or city and county in which the petition was circulated and requires the elections officials to determine the total number of signatures affixed to the petition and transmit that information to the Secretary of State. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the latter provision.