Assembly Standing Committee on Appropriations

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Hi, everyone. Happy Sunday, everyone. Good afternoon.

Welcome to the 08/30/2026 Assembly Appropriations Committee. We have one bill today. We'll hear from Miss Pellerin. We encourage everyone to provide written testimony on the website, Apro.assembly.ca.gov. The room's open for attendance.

Everyone is expected to act like an adult. And with that, let's take a quorum here.

[roll call]

We have a quorum.

Okay. It's a rowdy bunch today.

[roll call]

Great. Okay. With that, Miss Pellerin, please, AB 20 sorry. 282.

The floor is yours.

Yes.

The floor is yours.

Thank you, Chair and fellow members. AB 282 seeks to prevent the gravest threat to our elections by preventing any attempts to seize ballots, election records, and certified voting technology before the election results are certified. It makes it clear that interfering with ballots or voting equipment before an election is certified is a serious offense with serious penalties, and this bill makes it a felony to seize, cause, or assist in the seizure of ballots, election records, or certified voting technology.

Among these increasing threats to the integrity of our state administered elections, AB 282 helps ensure that the will of the voters of every political party will be respected. I respectfully ask for aye vote.

Thank you. We'll bring it back to sorry. Before we do that, anyone wish to express support or opposition in the room? Okay. We'll bring it back to committee.

Any questions?

Thank you for all the work you're doing in this space and I'd like to be added as a co-author, please.

Can't do that.

Can't do it? Okay. Well, I'm gonna Unless you wanna come back week here.

Okay.

Then just thank you because you've been working on, you know, just protecting the democracy Yes. Since you got here and I really appreciate it.

The vote and voice will matter a lot. Thank you so much.

You can be a emotional and moral co-author.

You're an emotion. Yes.

Great. And do we have a motion? Move. And a second. Okay.

Would you like to close?

I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Great. The motion is concur in Senate amendments that is out with Republicans not voting or oh, we can do a roll call. We'll do a roll call?

Yeah. Okay.

We're gonna do a roll call.

[Roll Call]

Okay. I do believe this will be our last appropriations hearing of this year. So with that, we are adjourned.