Bill Text: CA SCA2 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Enrolled

California Senate Constitutional Amendment 2 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Public housing projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 182, Statutes of 2022. [SCA2 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SCA2-Enrolled.html

Enrolled September 08, 2022

Passed IN Senate January 26, 2022

Passed IN Assembly August 31, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Constitutional Amendment

No. 2

Introduced by Senators Allen and Wiener
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Kalra, Lee, and Wicks)

December 07, 2020

A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by repealing Article XXXIV thereof, relating to public housing projects.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SCA 2, Allen. Public housing projects.

The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition of a low-rent housing project, as defined, in any manner by any state public body until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which the development, construction, or acquisition of the low-rent housing project is proposed approve the project by voting in favor at an election, as specified.

This measure would repeal these provisions.

Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

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: