BILL NUMBER: ACA 6	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 21, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 3, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gordon)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Gorell, Melendez, and Nestande)

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2013

   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 constitutional amendments.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 6, as amended, Gatto. Constitutional amendments: voter
approval.
   Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide for the
Legislature and electors to propose amendments or revisions to the
Constitution. Any proposed constitutional amendment or revision
submitted to the voters becomes effective if it is approved by a
majority of votes cast.
   This measure would increase the vote requirement from a majority
to 55% of the votes cast for the electors to amend or revise the
Constitution, except that this measure would permit the electors 
by a majority vote  to  repeal by a majority vote a
previously adopted amendment or revision of the Constitution,
including certain subsequent amendments to the section or sections of
the Constitution added or amended by the previously adopted
constitutional amendment or revision, as specified  
approve an amendment or revision if the sole effect i   s to
reverse one or more changes made to the Constitution by a previous
amendment or revision that, prior to the adoption of this measure,
was adopted by a majority vote  .
   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 2013-14 Regular Session
commencing on the third day of December 2012, 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:
  First--  That this measure shall be known and may be cited as the
"Constitution Protection Act."
  Second--  That Section 4 of Article XVIII thereof is amended to
read:
      SEC. 4.  (a) A proposed amendment or revision of the
Constitution shall be submitted to the electors and if approved by
not less than 55 percent of the votes cast thereon, except as
provided in subdivision (b), takes effect the day after the election
unless the measure provides otherwise.
   (b)  (1)     Except as
provided by paragraph (2), upon approval by a majority of the votes
cast thereon a   A  proposed amendment or revision
of the Constitution  may repeal a previously adopted
amendment or revision of the Constitution, including any subsequent
amendments made to the section or sections of the Constitution added
or amended by a previously adopted constitutional amendment or
revision  shall be approved by a majority of the votes
cast thereon if its sole effect is to reverse one or more of the
changes made to the Constitution by a previous amendment or revision
that, prior to the operative date of the measure that added this
subdivision, was adopted by a majority of the votes cast thereon
 . 
   (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the event a measure that made
subsequent amendments to a section or sections of the Constitution
added or amended by a previously adopted constitutional amendment or
revision itself added, amended, or repealed one or more sections of
the Constitution other than those added or amended by the previously
adopted amendment or revision. 
    (c) If the provisions of two or more measures approved at the
same election conflict, those of the measure receiving the highest
affirmative vote shall prevail.