---
type: "Bill"
title: "A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by repealing and adding Section 7.5 of Article I thereof, relating to rights."
description: "The California Constitution provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California, and federal law permanently enjoins the state from enforcing this constitutional provision."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "ACA 5"
citation: "California ACA 5 (20232024)"
classification: ["constitutional amendment"]
subjects: ["Marriage equality"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Low"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c00b2460-9cc4-4695-9c85-17632c34d21d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA5"
source_hash: "9fc547b0491ace5a87519877d17d535dac8519f9b00b806e5d53ad81db5c869b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California ACA 5 (20232024) — A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by repealing and adding Section 7.5 of Article I thereof, relating to rights.

The California Constitution provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California, and federal law permanently enjoins the state from enforcing this constitutional provision.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA5&version=20230ACA599INT)
2. **06/05/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA5&version=20230ACA598AMD)
3. **07/20/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA5&version=20230ACA596CHP)
4. **ACA5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA5)
5. **07/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA5&version=20230ACA597ENR)

## Votes

- ACA 5 Low Assembly Third Reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted and re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading ACA5 Low et al. By Wiener — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections and Constitutional Amendments] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Low — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Ashby — coauthor (person)
- Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Cortese — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Eggman — principal coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Glazer — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — principal coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Laird — principal coauthor (person)
- Lee — principal coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — principal coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Newman — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — principal coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Roth — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Wahab — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — principal coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — principal coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2023-06-01** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-06** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-13** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-06-13** From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Be adopted. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-26** Read third time. Adopted. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 2375.) `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-26** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2023-06-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-27** Referred to Coms. on JUD., E. & C.A. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-06** From committee: Be adopted, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-10** From committee: Be adopted. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-13** Read third time. Adopted. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 2025.) `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-07-13** Ordered to the Assembly.
- **2023-07-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-07-20** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-07-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 125, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c00b2460-9cc4-4695-9c85-17632c34d21d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).