California · Chapter 169, Statutes of 2026
AB 1892 — acclamation notice cut to 30 days
Three changes to how a California association gives notice, and one piece of tidying that moves a rule most people cite by the wrong number.
An act to amend Sections 4775, 5103, and 5105 of the Civil Code
Not yet in force. This act was signed on 31 August 2026 and takes effect on 1 January 2027. Until then the text on the section pages is the text that governs, and the difference below is shown under it there as well.
The acclamation timetable is the substantive change. An association that wants to seat unopposed candidates without a ballot has had to send the first notice at least 90 days before nominations close — in practice about five months before the annual meeting, which is why associations so often discover the option after the window to use it has shut. That becomes 30 days. The reminder notice stops being a window of 7 to 30 days and becomes a floor of not less than 10 days.
The second change narrows who must be told about an electronic ballot. The notice went to every member; it now goes to each member who is electronically voting, and the deadline is restated as a floor rather than a point.
The third is not a change in obligation at all, and it matters anyway. The bar on amending election rules within 90 days of an election has been sitting in § 5105(h)(4)(B)(iii) — filed as the third item in a list of ways to deliver a copy of the rules, which is plainly a drafting slip in AB 2159. This act gives it a subdivision of its own at § 5105(i), which pushes the whole electronic-voting block from (i) to (j). Twenty-five subdivisions keep their wording and change their letter, so every citation to § 5105(i)(…) written before 2027 points somewhere else after it.
What it changed, section by section
Read from the chaptered text of this act and compared with the text in force, subdivision by subdivision — deletions struck, insertions underlined, renumbering separated from substance.
§ 5103
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- (b)(1)amendedInitial notice at least
9030 days before the deadline for submitting nominations … - (b)(2)amendedA reminder notice
between 7 and 30not less than 10 days before the deadline for submitting nominations …
§ 5105
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- (a)(1)amended… edit or redact any content from these
communications,communications but may include a statement specifying that … - (g)amendedExcept as provided in subparagraph (F) of paragraph (1) of subdivision
(i),(j), notwithstanding any other law, the rules adopted … - (i) moved from (h)(4)(B)(iii)Election operating rules adopted pursuant to this section shall not be amended less than 90 days prior to an election.
- (j)(3)(A) was (i)(3)(A)amended
TheNo later than 30 days before the election, and pursuant to subparagraph (B), the association shall deliver individual notice of the electronic secret ballot to each member30 days before the election andwho is electronically voting. That notice shall contain instructions on both of the following: - (j)(8) was (i)(8)amendedFor purposes of determining a quorum, a member voting
electronicallyby electronic secret ballot pursuant to this subdivision shall be counted …
Subdivision (i) and everything under it became (j): 25 subdivisions kept their wording and took a new letter.
Compared against the text this site publishes, which is the text in force until the date above.
Bill record and enacted text from the California Legislative Counsel's bulk publication. The bill as chaptered · /data/pending.json