BILL NUMBER: ACA 21	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Charles Calderon

                        APRIL 1, 2009

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 21, as introduced, Charles Calderon. Initiatives:
constitutional amendments.
   The California Constitution gives voters, through the initiative,
the power to propose statutes and constitutional amendments and to
adopt or reject them. Any proposed initiative measure submitted to
the voters becomes effective if it is approved by a majority of votes
cast.
   This measure would instead require that an amendment to the
Constitution proposed by an initiative measure, including any
statutory provisions that also are contained in that initiative
measure, be approved by 2/3 of votes cast.
   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 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 4 of Article XVIII thereof is amended to read:
      SEC. 4.   A proposed   An  amendment
or revision  proposed by the Legislature  shall be submitted
to the electors and  ,  if approved by a majority of votes
thereon  ,  takes effect the day after the election unless
the measure provides otherwise.  Notwithstanding subdivision (a)
of Section 10 of Article II, an amendment proposed by an initiative
measure, including any statutory provisions that also are contained
in that initiative measure, shall be submitted to the electors and,
if approved by two-thirds of votes thereon, takes effect the day
after the election unless the measure provides otherwise.  If
provisions of  2   two  or more measures
approved at the same election conflict, those of the measure
receiving the highest affirmative vote shall prevail.