On July 3, the California Senate Public Safety Committee did not pass AB 2058. The vote to pass it was 3-1, but the bill needed four votes to pass. This corrects an error made by this blog. The posting on the evening of July 3, saying the bill did pass, is in error. The Committee has five Democrats and two Republicans.

AB 2058 is the bill to make it illegal for registration drive workers to be paid on a per-registration card basis. The Senate Committee on Public Safety will not meet again this year, so the bill cannot pass this year, even though the Committee did authorize a reconsideration vote at some unspecified point in the future.

Senators who voted for the bill in the Senate Public Safety Committee are these three Democrats: Loni Hancock of Berkeley, Carol Liu of La Canada, and Curren Price of Inglewood. The “no” vote was cast by Joel Anderson, one of the two Republicans. Democratic Senators who did not vote are Ron Calderon of Montebello and Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento, the Senate President.