Recall elections: successors.

Assembly Member Bennett's recall election reform measure establishes new restrictions on filling vacancies after successful recall elections while clarifying succession procedures at both local and state levels. The legislation modifies existing recall processes by prohibiting recalled local officers from being reappointed to their former positions after removal.

For local government recalls, the bill maintains the current system where successful recalls create vacancies to be filled according to existing law, but adds an explicit prohibition on reappointing the recalled official to the vacant position. At the state level, the legislation reaffirms that in statewide recall elections, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes assumes the remainder of the recalled officer's term.

The measure requires only a simple majority vote for passage and contains no new appropriations or fiscal impacts. Local and state election officials would implement these modified recall procedures under their existing authority to administer election laws.