SB 406 California Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Elections: ballot submission deadline.

Summary

Under existing law, a vote-by-mail ballot is timely cast if it is postmarked or otherwise time-stamped on or before election day and received in the mail no later than 7 days after election day. This bill would instead require a vote-by-mail ballot to be returned to the applicable elections official no later than the close of the polls on election day, except that the bill would require a vote-by-mail ballot cast by a military or overseas voter to be counted if it is postmarked on or before election day and received no later than 7 days after election day.

Bill status failed 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 14, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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What changed between versions

02/14/25 - Introduced → SB406 · 1 edit

MINOR

No substantive policy changes occurred between these two versions. The difference is purely presentational: the first version uses the traditional legislative document format with line numbers and page headers, while the second version is a web page rendering of the same bill text from the California Legislature website, complete with navigation menus and search features.

TECHNICAL

The bill text was reformatted from the official legislative document layout (with line numbers, page breaks, and centered headers) to a web page presentation format including site navigation, search tools, and tabbed bill information sections. The actual statutory language in all three sections (3020, 3117, and 4103 of the Elections Code) is identical in both versions.

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Committee

Apr 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

April 1 set for first hearing. Held in committee without recommendation.

upper

Mar 19, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.

upper

Feb 14, 2025

Introduced

Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

upper

1 primary · 8 co-sponsors