20250AB__009497CHP INTRODUCED 2025-01-07 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-04-01 PASSED_SENATE 2025-09-04 ENROLLED 2025-09-08 CHAPTERED 2025-10-03 APPROVED 2025-10-03 FILED 2025-10-03 2025 AB CHP CHP 0 Introduced by Assembly Member Bennett LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Bennett

An act to amend Sections and of the Elections Code, relating to elections. elections Recall elections: successors.

(1) Existing law specifies procedures for the recall election of a local officer. Under existing law, if a majority of the votes on a recall proposal for a local officer are in the affirmative, the officer is removed and the office remains vacant until it is filled according to law. This bill would provide that when the local officer is recalled and removed, that officer may not be appointed to fill the vacancy.

(2) Existing law provides that if at a statewide recall election an officer is recalled, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes for the office shall be declared elected for the unexpired term of the recalled officer. This bill would make clarifying changes to the above provision. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Elections Code is amended to read: 11382. There shall not be an election for a successor in a recall of a local officer pursuant to

Chapter 3 (commencing with

Section 11200). If a majority of the votes on a recall proposal for a local officer are “Yes”, the officer is removed and the office shall be vacant until it is filled according to law, provided that the officer who was the subject of the recall election shall not be appointed to fill the vacancy in that office.

SEC. 2.

Section of the Elections Code is amended to read: 11385. If a state officer is recalled at a recall election, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes for the office shall be declared elected for the unexpired term of the recalled officer.