(a)Upon receipt of the text of a proposed initiative measure, and after the public review period provided for in Section 9002, the Attorney General shall prepare a circulating title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed measure. The circulating title and summary shall not exceed 100 words. The Attorney General shall also provide a unique numeric identifier for each proposed initiative measure. The circulating title and summary shall be prepared in the manner provided for the preparation of ballot titles and summaries in Article 5 (commencing with Section 9050), the provisions of which, in regard to the preparation, filing, and settlement of ballot titles and summaries, are applicable to the circulating title and summary.
(b)The Attorney General shall provide a copy of the circulating title and summary and its unique numeric identifier to the proponents and to the Secretary of State within 15 days after receipt of the fiscal estimate or opinion prepared by the Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst pursuant to Section 9005. The date the copy is delivered or mailed to the proponents is the “official summary date.”
(c)Upon receipt of the circulating title and summary from the Attorney General, the Secretary of State shall, within one business day, notify the proponents and county elections official of each county of the official summary date and provide a copy of the circulating title and summary to each county elections official. This notification shall also include a complete schedule showing the maximum filing deadline, and the certification deadline by the counties to the Secretary of
State.
Notes of Decisions
Costa v. Superior Court, 128 P.3d 675 (Cal. 2006).
· cites it 2× “(Elec.Code, § 9004.) As the trial court put it: "There is no good reason to put the courts in the position of having to decide what is good enough for qualifying an initiative measure for the ballot when actual compliance is easily attainable.”
Senate of the State of Cal. v. Jones, 988 P.2d 1089 (Cal. 1999).
· cites it 2× “(Elec. Code, § 9004.) The title provided by the Attorney General reads: "Legislators' Compensation, Reapportionment, Initiative Constitutional Amendment]" and the summary briefly enumerates a number of the specific proposals contained in the initiative measure.”
Cnty. of San Diego v. Comm'n on State Mandates, 7 Cal. App. 5th 12 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016).
“6 The Elections Code requires the Attorney General to “prepare a circulating title and summary of the chief purposes and points of [a] proposed measure” (Elec. Code, § 9004, subd. (a)) that includes “in boldface print .”
Becerra v. Superior Court of Sacramento Cnty., 228 Cal. Rptr. 3d 327 (Cal. Ct. App. 5th 2017).
“DISCUSSION The Legislature has conferred upon the Attorney General the task of *332 preparing, in no more than 100 words, an impartial title and summary for *975 each initiative measure submitted to the voters.”
Zaremberg v. Superior Court, 2004 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 610 (Cal. Ct. App. 2004).
“1 The superior court found that the Attorney General’s title and summary of the referendum petition is inaccurate and misleading (Elec. Code §§ 9004 & 9051), 2 and also that the petition failed to comply with section 9011, which requires a short title at the top of each page…”
Becerra v. Super. Ct. (Cal. Ct. App. 2018).
“(Elec. Code, §§ 9004, 9051; undesignated statutory provisions refer to the Elections Code.”
People v. Gangl (Cal. Ct. App. 2019).
“) But the voter guide, apart from the “Text of Proposed Laws” contained therein, is not intended to list every change being made by an initiative.”
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