Elec. Code, § 2197 · Chapter 2.5. Online Voter Registration
Elec. Code, § 2197
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
No later than July 1, 2014, the California Health Benefit Exchange shall implement a process and the infrastructure to allow a person who applies online with the California Health Benefit Exchange for service or assistance, or who submits a recertification, renewal, or change of address form relating to the service or assistance online, to submit an affidavit of voter registration electronically on the Internet Web site of the Secretary of State in accordance with this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 505, Sec. 1. (SB 35) Effective January 1, 2013. Section operative September 26, 2016, when Stats. 2015, Ch. 728, amended Section 2196 and deleted its condition in former subd. (e) that restricted the operation of Chapter 2.5 (Sections 2196 to 2198).
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