Current Regulations

Business

• Business Entity Names
• Business Programs
• Notary Public
• Uniform Commercial Code
• Victims of Corporate Fraud Compensation Fund

Elections

• Conditional Voter Registration
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
• Conditional Voter Registration (Emergency Regulations)(PDF)
  Note:These emergency regulations are effective from October 5, 2020 through August 4, 2021, or until that date is extended or the emergency regulations are made permanent by regulatory action.
• Vote-by-Mail Ballot Drop Boxes and Vote-by-Mail Drop-Off Locations
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
• Vote-by-Mail Ballot Drop Boxes and Vote-by-Mail Drop-Off Locations - Section 20136 (Emergency Regulations)(PDF)
  Valid from 6/24/2020 through 2/20/2021, unless made permanent by separate regulatory action.
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
• Early Ballot Retrieval
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400(PDF)
• Ballot Designations
• California New Motor Voter Program
• Election Petition Signature Verification Random Sampling Verification Methodology
• Escrow of Ballot Tally Software Program Source Codes
• Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Identification Standards
• Ballot Printing
• Recounts
• Statewide Voter Registration System
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)
  • California Application for Certification of an Election Management System, version 1.0 (PDF)
  • Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 140-2, published May 25, 2001
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-175B, Published August, 2016 (PDF)
  • Secretary of State VoteCal Data Standards (revised January 27, 2020) (PDF)
  • VoteCal System EMS Intergration and Data Exchange Specifications Document, revised June 29, 2016 (PDF)
• Statewide Voter Registration System (Emergency Regulations)(PDF)
  Note:These emergency regulations are effective from October 5, 2020 through August 4, 2021, or until that date is extended or the emergency regulations are made permanent by regulatory action.
• Voter Registration
• Voting System Certification Regulations
• Electronic Poll Books
• Risk Limiting Audits (Emergency Regulations)
  Note:These emergency regulations are effective from September 10, 2020 through July 10, 2021, or until that date is extended or the emergency regulations are made permanent by regulatory action.
  • California Post-Election Risk-Limiting Audit Ballot Manifest Format (October 15, 2019) (PDF)
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)
• Risk Limiting Audits (Permanent Regulations)
  • Note:These regulations are temporarily superseded by emergency regulations effective from September 10, 2020 through July 10, 2021, or until that date is extended or the emergency regulations are made permanent by regulatory action.
  • California Post-Election Risk-Limiting Audit Ballot Manifest Format (October 15, 2019) (PDF)
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)
  • Filed Regulation Text Package (PDF)
• Signature Verification, Ballot Processing, and Ballot Counting (Emergency Regulations) 
  • Note:These emergency regulations are effective from September 28, 2020 through July 28, 2021, or until that date is extended or the emergency regulations are made permanent by regulatory 
    action.
  • Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)

Political Reform Division

• CAL-ACCESS Software Vendor Certification
• Stamped and Approved Form 400 (PDF)

Programs/Registries

• Safe at Home Confidential Address Program
• Advance Health Care Directive Registry

Technology

• Digital Signatures (Emergency Regulations)
  Valid from 4/22/2020 through 10/20/2020, unless made permanent by separate regulatory action.

• Digital Signatures (Permanent Regulations)
  Valid through 4/21/2020, and effective again if the emergency regulations are not made effective.

• Trustworthy Electronic Document or Record Preservation