BILL NUMBER: ACA 3	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Haynes

                        DECEMBER 6, 2004

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Section 7.5
to Article I of the California Constitution, relating to marriage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 3, as introduced, Haynes.   Marriage.
   Existing statutory law provides that marriage is a personal
relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman.
Existing statutory law further provides that only marriage between a
man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
   This measure would amend the California Constitution to provide
that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized
in California, as specified. The measure would further limit the
provision of the rights, responsibilities, benefits, and obligations
of marriage to a man and a woman, as specified.
   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 2004-05 Regular Session
commencing on the sixth day of December 2004, 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 7.5 is added to Article I thereof, to read:
      SEC. 7.5.  (a) Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid
or recognized in California, whether contracted in this state or
elsewhere.(b) The rights, responsibilities, benefits, and obligations
of a marriage shall only be granted, bestowed, and conferred upon a
man and a woman joined in a valid marriage, and may not be conferred
upon any other union or partnership.