Bill Text: CA ACA8 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Slavery.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-09-13 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. [ACA8 Detail]
Download: California-2023-ACA8-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Constitutional Amendment
No. 8
| Introduced by Assembly Member Wilson (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Bryan, Wendy Carrillo, Connolly, Gipson, Haney, Jackson, Kalra, Low, McCarty, McKinnor, Ortega, Papan, Blanca Rubio, Santiago, Ting, and Weber) (Coauthors: Senators Bradford, Dodd, Durazo, Skinner, Smallwood-Cuevas, and Wiener) |
February 17, 2023 |
A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 6 of Article I thereof, relating to slavery.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACA 8, as introduced, Wilson.
Slavery.
The California Constitution prohibits slavery and prohibits involuntary servitude, except as punishment to a crime.
This measure would instead prohibit slavery in any form, including forced labor compelled by the use or threat of physical or legal coercion.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2023–24 Regular Session commencing on the fifth day of December 2022, 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 6 of Article I thereof is amended to read:
SEC. 6.
(a) Slavery in any form is prohibited.(b) As used in this section, slavery includes forced labor compelled by the use or threat of physical or legal coercion.
