Bill Text: CA SCA11 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections: Nonpartisan offices.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-13 - April 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. [SCA11 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SCA11-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Constitutional Amendment | No. 11 |
| Introduced by Senator Lara |
February 17, 2017 |
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 II thereof, relating to elections.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCA 11, as introduced, Lara.
Elections: Nonpartisan offices.
The California Constitution requires that all judicial, school, county, and city offices be nonpartisan. The California Constitution prohibits a political party or party central committee from nominating a candidate for nonpartisan office, and prohibits including the party preference of a candidate for nonpartisan office on the ballot for the nonpartisan office.
This measure would allow school, county, and city offices, except the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to be partisan offices.
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 2017–18 Regular Session commencing on the fifth day of December 2016, 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 II thereof is amended to read:
SEC. 6.
(a) All(b) A political party or party central committee shall not nominate a candidate for nonpartisan office, and the candidate’s party preference shall not be included on the ballot for the nonpartisan office.
