Text of the law change

SECTION 1. The people of the State of California find and declare all of the following: 

(a) In 2021, Californians lost the constitutional right they possessed for nearly 35 years to transfer their home and a limited amount of other property between themselves and their children without triggering reassessment to current market value and in a higher property tax bill. 

(b) This act restores that constitutional right and also restores the same constitutional right for transfers between grandparents and qualifying grandchildren. 

SECTION 2. Section 2.4 is added to Article XIII A of the California Constitution, to read: SECTION 2.4. 

(a) Notwithstanding any law: 

(1) Subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 2.1 shall apply only to those purchases or transfers of real property occurring on or after February 16, 2021, and before January 1, 2027. 

(2) Subdivision (h) of Section 2 shall become operative on January 1, 2027, and shall apply to a purchase or transfer of real property that occurs on or after January 1, 2027. 

(3) A purchase or transfer of real property subject to subdivision (c) of Section 2.1 on or after February 16, 2021, and before January 1, 2027, shall, upon the filing of a claim with the assessor of the county in which the property is located, be reassessed as if subdivision (h) of Section 2 had been operative at the time of the purchase or transfer. 

• (b) The Legislature shall provide in statute for the reassessment program described in paragraph (3) of subdivision 
• (a), and shall provide in statute that the availability of reassessment pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) be publicized and be publicized in minority communities. 
• (c) This section shall be liberally construed to broadly apply the tax benefit under subdivision (h) of Section 2. 
• (d) This section supersedes any other provisions of this Constitution that are in conflict with this section, including, but not limited to, Section 2.1 of Article XIII A.

SECTION 1. (a) This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Reclaim Voters' Rights Act. (b) In 2011, Californians lost the right to vote on citizen-initiated ballot measures at statewide primary elections. This act restores that right. 

SEC. 2. Section 9016 of the Elections Code is amended to read: 9016.(a) Notwithstanding Section 324, for purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 8 of, and subdivision (c) of Section 9 of, Article II of the California Constitution, "general election" means only the election held throughout the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year with respect to an initiative or referendum measure that is certified for the ballot on or after July 1, 2011. (b)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an initiative measure shall not be submitted to the voters at placed on a statewide special election held ballot that qualifies less than 131 days after the date the measure is certified for the ballot before the date of the election. (PU Amended by Stats.2011, Ch. 558, Sec. 1. (SB 202) Effective January 1, 2012.) 

SEC. 3. Only the voters may amend these sections.