BILL NUMBER: ACA 2	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Furutani

                        DECEMBER 1, 2008

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 2
of Article II thereof, relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 2, as introduced, Furutani. Elections: voting age.
   The California Constitution authorizes any person who is a United
States citizen 18 years of age and a resident of the state to vote.
   This measure additionally would authorize a person who is at least
17 years of age and will be 18 years of age at the time of the next
general election to register to vote, subject to compliance with
applicable registration requirements, and to vote in that general
election and in any intervening primary or special election that
occurs after the person registers to vote.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.



   Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2009-10 Regular Session
commencing on the first day of December 2008, 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 2 of Article II thereof is amended to read:
      SEC. 2.   (a)    A United States citizen 18
years of age and resident in this State may vote. 
   (b) A person who is at least 17 years of age and will be at least
18 years of age at the time of the next general election may register
to vote, subject to compliance with applicable registration
requirements, and may vote in that general election and in any
intervening primary or special election that occurs after the person
registers to vote.