Bill Text: CA ACA11 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Initiatives: constitutional amendments: voter approval.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-27 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. Held under submission. [ACA11 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: ACA 11	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        DECEMBER 9, 2010

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Section 8
of Article II thereof, relating to initiatives.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 11, as introduced, Gatto. Initiatives: election qualification:
signatures.
   Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide for the
electors to propose statutes or amendments to the Constitution by
initiative. An initiative measure may be proposed by presenting to
the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of the
proposed statute or amendment to the Constitution and is certified to
have been signed by electors equal in number to 5% in the case of a
statute, and 8% in the case of an amendment to the Constitution, of
the votes for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial
election.
   This measure would increase the percentage requirement for
signatures to 8% in the case of an initiative measure that proposes a
statute.
   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 2011-12 Regular Session
commencing on the sixth day of December 2010, 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 8 of Article II thereof is amended to read:
      SEC. 8.  (a) The initiative is the power of the electors to
propose statutes and amendments to the Constitution and to adopt or
reject them.
   (b) An initiative measure may be proposed by presenting to the
Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of the
proposed statute or amendment to the Constitution and is certified to
have been signed by electors equal in number to  5 
 8  percent  in the case of a statute, and 8
percent in the case of an amendment to the Constitution,  of
the votes for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial
election.
   (c) The Secretary of State shall then submit the measure at the
next general election held at least 131 days after it qualifies or at
any special statewide election held prior to that general election.
The Governor may call a special statewide election for the measure.
   (d) An initiative measure embracing more than one subject may not
be submitted to the electors or have any effect.
   (e) An initiative measure may not include or exclude any political
subdivision of the State from the application or effect of its
provisions based upon approval or disapproval of the initiative
measure, or based upon the casting of a specified percentage of votes
in favor of the measure, by the electors of that political
subdivision.
   (f) An initiative measure may not contain alternative or
cumulative provisions wherein one or more of those provisions would
become law depending upon the casting of a specified percentage of
votes for or against the measure.