Bill Text: CA SCA9 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Personal rights: right to housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-23 - Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and E. & C.A. [SCA9 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SCA9-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 9
| Introduced by Senator Gonzalez |
February 18, 2022 |
A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Article XXV thereto, relating to housing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCA 9, as introduced, Gonzalez.
Personal rights: right to housing.
The California Constitution enumerates various personal rights, including the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.
This measure would declare that the fundamental human right to housing exists in this state. The measure would specify that it is the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill this right through progressively implemented measures, consistent with available resources, within an aggressive but reasonable timeframe.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES 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 Article XXV is added thereto, to read:
