Bill Text: CA ACA3 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Slavery.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-08-31 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Leyva. [ACA3 Detail]

Download: California-2021-ACA3-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  June 23, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Constitutional Amendment

No. 3

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Introduced by Assembly Member Kamlager
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Kalra, Wicks, and Lorena Gonzalez)
(Coauthors: Senators Bradford, Portantino, and Skinner)

December 18, 2020

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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 involuntary servitude. slavery.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

ACA 3, as amended, Kamlager. Involuntary servitude. Slavery.

The California Constitution prohibits slavery. The California Constitution also prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment to a crime.

This measure would remove that exception involuntary servitude from these provisions and define slavery to include 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: NO  

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Bill Text

Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2021–22 Regular Session commencing on the seventh day of December 2020, 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:

First—This measure shall be known, and may be cited, as the “End Slavery in California Act.”

Second—

 That Section 6 of Article I thereof is amended to read:

SEC. 6.

 Slavery (a) Slavery, in any form, is prohibited. Involuntary servitude is prohibited except to punish crime.

(b) For purposes of this section, slavery includes forced labor compelled by the use or threat of physical or legal coercion.

That Section 6 of Article I thereof is amended to read:

SEC. 6.

Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited.