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AB 502Elections: deceptive media in advertisements.

Congress · introduced 2025-09-04

Latest action: Senate

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · 1 Read first time. To print.
  2. · 3 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
  3. · 2 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
  4. · 5 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended.
  5. · 30 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
  6. · 7 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  7. · 9 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9).
  8. · 24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  9. · 41 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1279.)
  10. · 112 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  11. · 2 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
  12. · 114 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
  13. · 6 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
  14. · 30 Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  15. · 8 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 15).
  16. · 23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  17. · 126 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  18. · 23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  19. · 128 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Blakespear.

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Connected on the graph

Inbound (2)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-09-04Berman, Marcsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2025-09-04Pellerin, Gailsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

The full graph

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Legislation

Sponsored bill 2 edges

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Berman, Marc (D, state_lower CA-23)sponsor05
2Pellerin, Gail (D, state_lower CA-28)sponsor05

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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  1. 2025-09-04 · sponsored by Pellerin, Gail (sponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-09-04 · sponsored by Berman, Marc (sponsor) · sponsorship

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