BILL NUMBER: ACA 21	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 8, 2009

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   1  of Article XVIII thereof, relating
to  initiatives   constitutional amendments
 .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 21, as amended, 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.   The Legislature
may propose for voter approval an amendment or revision to the
Constitution by a   2/3   vote of each house. 

   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   authorize the Legislature, by a bill passed
by a majority of the membership of each house and enacted into law,
to propose for voter approval an amendment to a provision of the
Constitution that was added or amended through the initiative process
 .
   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.  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 two or more measures approved at the same election
conflict, those of the measure receiving the highest affirmative vote
shall prevail. 
     That Section 1 of Article XVIII thereof is amended to read:

      SECTION. 1.   The   (a)   
 Except as provided in s   ubdivision (b), the 
Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of
the membership of each house concurring, may propose an amendment or
revision of the Constitution and in the same manner may amend or
withdraw its proposal. Each amendment shall be so prepared and
submitted that it can be voted on separately. 
   (b) The Legislature, by a bill passed by a majority of the
membership of each house and enacted into law pursuant to Article IV,
may propose an amendment to any provision of the Constitution that
was added or amended pursuant to Section 3, and in the same manner
may amend or withdraw its proposal.