Bill Text: CA SCA10 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Enrolled
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Bill Title: Reproductive freedom.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 84-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 97, Statutes of 2022. [SCA10 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SCA10-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: Reproductive freedom.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 84-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 97, Statutes of 2022. [SCA10 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SCA10-Enrolled.html
Enrolled
June 28, 2022 |
Passed
IN
Senate
June 20, 2022 |
Passed
IN
Assembly
June 27, 2022 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10
Introduced by Senator Atkins and Assembly Member Rendon (Principal coauthors: Senators Allen, Archuleta, Becker, Bradford, Caballero, Cortese, Dodd, Durazo, Eggman, Glazer, Gonzalez, Hertzberg, Hueso, Hurtado, Kamlager, Laird, Leyva, Limón, McGuire, Min, Newman, Pan, Portantino, Roth, Rubio, Skinner, Stern, Umberg, Wieckowski, and Wiener) (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Berman, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Mia Bonta, Bryan, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Cooper, Daly, Mike Fong, Friedman, Gabriel, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gipson, Haney, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Lee, Levine, Low, Maienschein, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, O’Donnell, Petrie-Norris, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Salas, Santiago, Stone, Ting, Ward, Akilah Weber, Wicks, Wilson, and Wood) |
June 08, 2022 |
A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Section 1.1 to Article I thereof, relating to fundamental rights.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCA 10, Atkins.
Reproductive freedom.
The California Constitution declares that defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy are inalienable rights, and that a person may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or equal protection of the laws. Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, declares that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions and prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a person’s right to choose or obtain an abortion before viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the person.
This measure would amend the California Constitution to prohibit the state from denying or interfering with an individual’s reproductive freedom in
their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly 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:
That Section 1.1 is added to Article I thereof, to read: