BILL NUMBER: ACA 7	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Campos, Chiu, McCarty, Medina,
Mullin, and Thurmond)

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2016

   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 7, as introduced, Gonzalez. Voting age: school and community
college district governing board elections.
   The California Constitution authorizes a United States citizen at
least 18 years of age and a resident of the State to vote.
   This measure, in addition, would authorize a person who is at
least 16 years of age and a resident of the state to vote in a school
or community college district governing board election in which that
person would be qualified to vote based on residence.
   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 2015-16 Regular Session
commencing on the first day of December 2014, 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 
who is at least  18 years of age and  a  resident in
this State may vote. 
   (b) A United States citizen who is at least 16 years of age and a
resident in this State may vote in a school or community college
district governing board election in which that person would be
qualified to vote based on residence.