Elections: voter registration.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about potential consequences if the agreement with the Social Security Administration is not reached.

Voter Registration: Updating Death Records

This law allows the Secretary of State to get death records from the Social Security Administration and use them, along with state data, to remove voter registrations of people who have died.

What This Bill Does

• Allows the Secretary of State to make an agreement with the Social Security Administration by January 1, 2028, to share death statistics.
• Requires the Secretary of State to create rules for getting electronic death records from the Social Security Administration if such an agreement is made.
• Requires the Secretary of State or county elections officials to use both state and federal death data to cancel voter registrations of deceased individuals.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Secretary of State
• County elections officials
• Social Security Administration

Terms To Know

State-mandated local program

A state requirement that forces local governments to do something, which may need extra funding from the state.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if the Social Security Administration does not agree to share death statistics.
• Local agencies and school districts might get reimbursed by the state for costs related to this new requirement, but only if a mandate is found by the Commission on State Mandates.

Official Summary Text

AB 1764, as amended, Sanchez.
Elections: voter registration.
Existing law requires the Secretary of State to adopt regulations to facilitate the availability of death statistics from the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law requires the Secretary of State or county elections officials, as applicable, to use those death statistics to cancel the affidavits of voter registration of deceased persons.
This bill would authorize the Secretary of State, on or before January 1, 2028, to enter into an agreement with the federal Social Security Administration to facilitate the availability of death statistics. If the Secretary of State enters into such an agreement, the bill would require the Secretary of State to adopt regulations governing the electronic transfer of death statistics from the Social Security Administration. The bill would require the Secretary of State or county elections
officials, as applicable, to use data obtained from
the State Department of Health Care Services and
the federal Social Security Administration to cancel the affidavits of
registrations
registration
of deceased persons.
By increasing the duties of local elections officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State
Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Current Bill Text

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