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Votes added post-announcement
Under Assembly Rule permitting members to add their vote to a previously announced vote.
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Recorded vote changes
Members who changed their position from the live vote to the published record.
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Legislators participating
Unique members who added or changed at least one vote.
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Bills cleared own house
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Add-on votes per ballot — distribution
Across — floor ballots
Two chambers, two rulebooks
Rate of post-announcement adds, normalized for chamber size
Assembly
—%
— adds across
— ballots · 80 members
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Senate
—%
— adds across
— ballots · 40 members
Why the gap is procedural:
Assembly Rule 104 permits members to add their vote to a previously
announced vote (same legislative day, no objection, outcome unchanged).
Senate Rule 44 prohibits changes after the presiding officer's
announcement, with a narrow exception for the President pro Tem and Minority Floor Leader.
Senate vote changes
RULE 44
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senators changed their vote this week.
Senate Rule 44 only permits the President pro Tem and the Minority Floor Leader
to change a vote after the presiding officer announces it. Anyone else who appears here did so
during the brief call-lift window before the formal announcement.
Senate post-vote adds
RULE 44
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senate adds recorded
— from
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senators.
Senate Rule 44 forbids voting after the presiding officer's announcement. The
adds counted here happen in the procedural gap between Real Time Gov's live capture and the
published record — typically call-lift activity.
Assembly vote changes
RULE 106
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members changed their vote this week.
Assembly Rule 106 permits a member to instruct the Chief Clerk to change their
recorded vote after the vote is announced, provided the change doesn't alter the outcome. These
are position-record adjustments — the bill still passes or fails the same way.
Halfway to law
Bills that received a Passed floor vote this week in their originating chamber — Assembly Bills passing the Assembly, Senate Bills passing the Senate. The first of two chambers cleared.
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Assembly Bills
cleared the Assembly
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Senate Bills
cleared the Senate
How these numbers are measured
Real Time Gov captures a live floor tally during each session and
compares it to the published roll call. An add is a vote that
appears in the published record but not in the live capture. A change is a vote
that differs between the two. The procedural meaning of "live" varies by chamber:
- In the Senate, our live capture lines up with the call-lift moment — the brief reopen window during which senators can record their vote.
- In the Assembly, the live capture lines up with the initial vote announcement.
Three California legislative rules govern what happens between live and published, and they differ by chamber:
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Assembly Rule 104 — a member may instruct the Chief Clerk to
add their vote to a previously announced vote, prior to adjournment on the same
legislative day, absent objection, so long as the outcome is not thereby changed.
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Assembly Rule 106 — a member may instruct the Chief Clerk to
change their recorded vote after the vote is announced, so long as the outcome is
not thereby changed.
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Senate Rule 44 — a senator may not vote or change their vote
after the announcement of the vote by the presiding officer. The President pro Tem
and Minority Floor Leader are excepted from this rule.
Add and change events are detected by linking each published ballot to its live floor capture
and comparing per-legislator votes. A blank live vote that becomes a real published vote is an
add; a different published vote is a change.
Source: Real Time Gov · floor session ballots. For procedural background see Chris
Micheli's California Globe pieces:
Vote Changes in the California Legislature
and the companion
FAQ.
Last published: Friday, May 29, 2026 5:20 AM