Bill Text: CA ACA7 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Voting age: school and community college district governing board elections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [ACA7 Detail]
Download: California-2015-ACA7-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: ACA 7 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gonzalez
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Campos, Chiu, McCarty, Medina,
Mullin, and Thurmond)
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 2
of Article II thereof, relating to elections.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACA 7, as introduced, Gonzalez. Voting age: school and community
college district governing board elections.
The California Constitution authorizes a United States citizen at
least 18 years of age and a resident of the State to vote.
This measure, in addition, would authorize a person who is at
least 16 years of age and a resident of the state to vote in a school
or community college district governing board election in which that
person would be qualified to vote based on residence.
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2015-16 Regular Session
commencing on the first day of December 2014, two-thirds of the
membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of
the State of California, that the Constitution of the State be
amended as follows:
That Section 2 of Article II thereof is amended to read:
SEC. 2. (a) A United States citizen
who is at least 18 years of age and a resident in
this State may vote.
(b) A United States citizen who is at least 16 years of age and a
resident in this State may vote in a school or community college
district governing board election in which that person would be
qualified to vote based on residence.
