AB 2681 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Write-in candidates: fees.

Summary

Existing law prohibits the imposition of a fee or charge for a write-in candidate except in the case of a candidate for city office, as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the above provision.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 20, 2026 Last action Feb 21, 2026

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02/20/26 - Introduced → AB2681 · 1 edit

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No substantive changes to the bill text. The diff reflects only differences in how the document was captured: the first version is a plain-text extraction while the second includes website navigation elements (menus, search boxes, links) from the California Legislature web page. The actual statutory language of Section 8604 is identical in both versions.

TECHNICAL

The document was re-captured from the legislature website with all surrounding HTML navigation and UI elements included, but the bill text itself (amending Elections Code Section 8604 to clarify that no fee or charge shall be required of a write-in candidate except for city office candidates) is unchanged.

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Committee

Feb 21, 2026

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors