California AB 1038, by Assemblymember Richard Pan, was scheduled to have a hearing in the Senate Elections Committee on Tuesday, July 2, but the bill’s author has amended the bill so that it is no longer an election law bill. It now relates to the sale of milk products. This is the bill that originally made it a crime for a group to pay registration drive workers on the basis of how many registrations they obtain for any particular party.

The only way a party in California can get on the ballot, or remain on, is on the basis of having registration equal to 1% of the last gubernatorial vote. If the bill (as originally written) were to be enacted, parties trying to maximize their registration would be handicapped.