BILL NUMBER: ACA 6	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 3, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gordon)
    (  Coauthors:   Assembly Members  
Gorell,   Melendez,   and Nestande   )


                        FEBRUARY 11, 2013

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending 
Sections 3 and   Section  4 of Article XVIII
thereof, relating to  initiatives.  
constitutional amendments. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 6, as amended, Gatto.  Initiatives: constitutional
  Constitutional  amendments: voter approval.
   Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide for the
 Legislature and  electors to propose amendments  or
revisions  to the Constitution  by initiative and to
adopt or reject them  . Any proposed  initiative
measure   constitutional amendment or revision 
submitted to the voters becomes effective if it is approved by a
majority of votes cast.
   This measure would increase the vote requirement from a majority
to 55% of the votes cast for the electors to amend  or revise
 the Constitution  by an initiative measure  ,
except that this measure would permit the electors to repeal  by
a majority vote  a previously adopted  initiative or
legislative  amendment  to   or
revision of  the Constitution, including certain subsequent
amendments to  that   the section or sections of
the Constitution added or amended by the previously adopted 
constitutional amendment  , by an initiative measure passed
by a majority vote   or revision, as specified  .
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.



   Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2013-14 Regular Session
commencing on the third day of December 2012, 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:
  First--  That this measure shall be known and may be cited as the
"Constitution Protection Act." 
  Second--    That Section 3 of Article XVIII
thereof is amended to read:
      SEC. 3.  (a) The electors may amend the Constitution by an
initiative measure approved by a minimum of 55 percent of the votes
cast thereon, or as specified in subdivision (b).
   (b) (1) The electors, by an initiative measure passed by a
majority of votes cast thereon, may repeal a previously adopted
initiative or legislative amendment to the Constitution.
   (2) The repeal of a previously adopted amendment to the
Constitution pursuant to this subdivision shall also be deemed to
repeal any subsequent amendments to that constitutional amendment.
However, this subdivision is not applicable to repeal a previously
adopted constitutional amendment if the measure that contained any
such subsequent amendment, as adopted by the electors, also included
one or more constitutional provisions that did not amend the
previously adopted amendment. 
   Third--   Second--   That Section 4 of
Article XVIII thereof is amended to read:
      SEC. 4.   (a)    A proposed amendment or
revision  of the Constitution  shall be submitted to the
electors and if approved by  a majority of votes thereon, or
by   not less than  55 percent of the votes 
cast  thereon  under subdivision (a) of Section 3
  , except as provided in subdivision (b)  , takes
effect the day after the election unless the measure provides
otherwise.  If  
   (b) (1) Except as provided by paragraph (2), upon approval by a
majority of the votes cast thereon a proposed amendment or revision
of the Constitution may repeal a previously adopted amendment or
revision of the Constitution, including any subsequent amendments
made to the section or sections of the Constitution added or amended
by a previously adopted constitutional amendment or revision. 

   (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the event a measure that made
subsequent amendments to a section or sections of the Constitution
added or amended by a previously adopted constitutional amendment or
revision itself added, amended, or repealed one or more sections of
the Constitution other than those added or amended by the previously
adopted amendment or revision. 
    (c)     If the  provisions of two or
more measures approved at the same election conflict, those of the
measure receiving the highest affirmative vote shall prevail.