california legislature—2023–24 regular session
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5
Introduced by Assembly Member Low
(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Cervantes, Jackson, Lee, Ward, and Zbur)
(Principal coauthors: Senators Atkins, Eggman, Laird, Menjivar, Padilla, and Wiener)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Addis, Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Boer ner Hor vath, Bonta, Calder on, Connolly, Mike Fong, Friedman, Gabriel, Haney , Hart, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Lo wenthal, Maienschein, McCarty , McKinnor, Muratsuchi, Stephanie Nguyen, Ortega, Pellerin, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Blanca Rubio, Santiago, Ting, Wallis, Weber, Wicks, Wilson, and Wood)
(Coauthors: Senators Allen, Archuleta, Ashby, Beck er, Blak espear, Bradford, Caballero, Cortese, Dodd, Durazo, Glazer , Gonzalez, Hurtado, Limón, McGuire, Min, Newman, Portantino, Roth, Rubio, Skinner, Smallwood-Cuevas, Stern, Umberg, and Wahab)
February 14, 2023
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5—A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, relating to rights.
legislative counsel’s digest
ACA 5, as introduced, Low. Marriage equality.
The California Constitution declares that defending life and liberty , acquiring, possessing, and protecting property , and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy are inalienable rights, and that
99 a person may not be depri ved of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or equal protection of the laws.
This measure would express the intent of the Le gislature to amend the Constitution of the State relating to marriage equality.
Vote: 2⁄3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
line 1 Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring , That the line 2 Legislature of the State of California at its 2023–24 Re gular line 3 Session commencing on the fifth day of December 2022, two-thirds line 4 of the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to line 5 the people of the State of California, that the Constitution of the line 6 State be amended as follows:
line 7 It is the intent of the Le gislature to amend the Constitution of line 8 the State relating to marriage equality.
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