Bill Text: CA ACA21 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Initiatives: constitutional amendments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-08-12 - To inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Charles Calderon. [ACA21 Detail]

Download: California-2009-ACA21-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACA 21	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 16, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 8, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Charles Calderon

                        APRIL 1, 2009

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State by amending Section 1
of Article XVIII thereof, relating to constitutional amendments.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 21, as amended, Charles Calderon. Initiatives: constitutional
amendments.
   The California Constitution gives voters, through the initiative,
the power to propose constitutional amendments and to adopt or reject
them. The Legislature may propose for voter approval an amendment or
revision to the Constitution by a 2/3 vote of each house.
   This measure  , alternatively,  would authorize the
Legislature, by a bill passed by a majority of the membership of each
house and enacted into law, to propose for voter approval an
amendment to a provision of the Constitution that was added or
amended through the initiative process  on or after the effective
date of this measure  .
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.



   Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2009-10 Regular Session
commencing on the first day of December 2008, 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 1 of Article XVIII thereof is amended to read:
      SECTION. 1.  (a)  Except as provided in subdivision
(b), the   The  Legislature by rollcall vote
entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership of each house
concurring, may propose an amendment or revision of the Constitution
and in the same manner may amend or withdraw its proposal. Each
amendment shall be so prepared and submitted that it can be voted on
separately.
   (b)  The   As   an alternative to
the procedure specified in subdivision (a), the  Legislature, by
a bill passed by a majority of the membership of each house and
enacted into law pursuant to Article IV, may propose an amendment to
any provision of the Constitution that was added or amended pursuant
to Section 3  on or after the effective date of the measure that
added this subdivision  , and in the same manner may amend or
withdraw its proposal.