Bill Text: CA ACR95 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Constitutional convention.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-24 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [ACR95 Detail]

Download: California-2011-ACR95-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 95	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Huber
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gatto)

                        JANUARY 30, 2012

   Relative to a constitutional convention.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 95, as introduced, Huber. Constitutional convention.
   This measure would propose that the electors of the state vote at
the next statewide general election on the question of whether to
call a convention for the purpose of revising the California
Constitution.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Section 2 of Article XVIII of the California Constitution
provides that the Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the
journal, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, may
submit at a general election the question of whether to call a
convention to revise the Constitution; and
   WHEREAS, Section 2 of Article XVIII of the California Constitution
further provides that if a majority vote yes on the question of
whether to call a convention to revise the Constitution, the
Legislature shall provide for a convention within six months; and
   WHEREAS, Section 2 of Article XVIII of the California Constitution
further provides that delegates to a constitutional convention shall
be voters elected from districts as nearly equal in population as
may be practicable; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
at its 2011-12 Regular Session commencing on the sixth day of
December 2010, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring,
hereby proposes that the electors of the state vote at the next
statewide general election after passage of this measure on the
question of whether to call a convention to revise the California
Constitution, subject to all of the following:
   (a) Pursuant to Section 2 of Article XVIII of the California
Constitution, the question of whether to call a convention to revise
the California Constitution shall be submitted to the electors at the
next statewide general election and, if a majority vote yes on that
question, within six months the Legislature shall provide for the
convention;
   (b) The Secretary of State shall submit the question of whether to
call a convention to revise the California Constitution to the
electors in the same manner in which the Secretary of State would
submit any other measure that is proposed by the Legislature and
submitted to a popular vote at a statewide general election;
   (c) The procedure used to elect delegates to the convention, and
the rules of procedure regarding the conduct of the convention, shall
be prescribed by a statute to be enacted; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Secretary of State, the Legislative Analyst,
the Attorney General, and to the author for appropriate distribution.