Elections.

Education Elections

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments (S) - (Senators Wiener (Chair), Allen, Cervantes, Choi, and Umberg)
Last action: 2026-04-22
Official status: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details about how many students will be allowed to help with elections.

Election Notice Changes

This law requires election notices for school board or community college district elections to be delivered earlier, mandates schools remain open as voting centers on regular school days except on election day, and allows more students to help with elections.

What This Bill Does

Changes the time limit for delivering a notice about school board or community college district elections from at least 123 days before the election to at least 125 days before the election.
Requires schools to stay open on regular school days when they are used as voting centers, except on election day when other options like staff training or closing the school are allowed.
Allows students who attend public or private secondary schools and those schooled at home to help with elections under supervision, if approved by their educational institution.

Who It Names or Affects

School districts and community college districts
County election officials
Educational institutions

Terms To Know

Governing board: The group that makes decisions for a school district or community college district.
Vote center: A place where people can vote, often in schools or other public buildings.

Limits and Unknowns

Does not specify what happens if the required notice is delivered late.
The bill does not explain how many students will be allowed to help with elections.
It's unclear how this law will affect home-schooled students specifically.

Bill History

2026-04-22 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-04-21 California Legislative Information
Ordered to second reading.
2026-04-21 California Legislative Information
Withdrawn from committee.
2026-04-21 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on ED.
2026-04-09 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 21.
2026-04-08 California Legislative Information
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
2026-03-18 California Legislative Information
Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and ED.
2026-03-06 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 5.
2026-03-05 California Legislative Information
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 1430, as amended, Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments.
Elections.
When an election for governing board members of a school district or community college district is ordered, existing law requires the governing board of the district, or the board or officer authorized by law to make such designations, to adopt a resolution specifying the date and the purpose of the election and requires that resolution to be delivered, not fewer than 123 days before the election, to the county superintendent of schools and the officer conducting the election, as provided.
This bill would require that resolution to instead be delivered not fewer than 125 days before the election.
Existing law authorizes the governing body with jurisdiction over school buildings or other public buildings to allow its buildings to be used for polling places, for vote centers beginning up to 10 days
before the election, or to store voting machines and other vote-tabulating devices. On the day that a school building is used as a polling place or vote center, the governing body may continue school in session, designate the day for staff training and development, or close the school.
This bill would require the governing body to continue school in session on any schoolday when a school building is used for a vote center, except on election day when the governing body may continue school in session, designate the day for staff training and development, or close the school.
Existing law requires a county elections official to divide each jurisdiction within the county into precincts and to appoint a precinct board for each precinct at least 29 days before an election within the jurisdiction. A member of a precinct board must be a voter of the state. Existing law allows an elections official to appoint up to 5 pupils per precinct
to serve under the direct supervision of precinct board members. A pupil may be appointed despite their lack of eligibility to vote, subject to the approval of the governing board of the educational institution in which the pupil is enrolled, if the pupil meets other requirements, including that the pupil is in good standing at a public or private secondary educational institution.
This bill would instead allow a pupil to be appointed subject to confirmation by the educational institution. The bill would also allow a pupil who is schooled at home to be appointed.
The bill would make related clarifying and conforming changes.

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