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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	ACA 5	California ACA 5 (20232024)	constitutional amendment	Marriage equality	enacted	Low	5	22	7	2023-02-14	2023-07-20	openstates	ocd-bill/c00b2460-9cc4-4695-9c85-17632c34d21d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA5	9fc547b0491ace5a87519877d17d535dac8519f9b00b806e5d53ad81db5c869b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 06/05/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/20/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. ACA5 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/c00b2460-9cc4-4695-9c85-17632c34d21d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).