Bill Text: CA ACA10 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-06-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 134, Statutes of 2024. [ACA10 Detail]

Download: California-2023-ACA10-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Constitutional Amendment

No. 10

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Introduced by Assembly Member Haney

March 06, 2023

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A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Article XXV thereto, relating to housing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

ACA 10, as introduced, Haney. Fundamental human right to housing.

The California Constitution enumerates various personal rights, including the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.

This measure would declare that the state recognizes the fundamental human right to adequate housing for everyone in California. The measure would make it the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill this right, by all appropriate means, as specified.

Digest Key

Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2023–24 Regular Session commencing on the fifth day of December 2022, 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 Article XXV is added thereto, to read:

Article  XXV Right to Housing

SECTION 1.

 The state hereby recognizes the fundamental human right to adequate housing for everyone in California. It is the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill this right, on a non-discriminatory and equitable basis, with a view to progressively achieve the full realization of the right, by all appropriate means, including the adoption and amendment of legislative measures, to the maximum of available resources.