20250ACA_001799INT INTRODUCED 2026-02-05 2025 ACA INT Introduced by Assembly Members Ortega and Krell (Principal coauthor: Senator Becker) LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ortega LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Krell PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR SENATE Becker A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding

Section to

Article IV thereof, relating to individuals with disabilities. individuals with disabilities Individuals with disabilities: direct benefit payments.

Existing statutory provisions provide for direct benefit payments to individuals with disabilities pursuant to various programs, including (1) the State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled (SSP), which requires the State Department of Social Services to contract with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments to SSP recipients to supplement Supplemental Security Income payments made available pursuant to the federal Social Security Act, (2) the Cash Assistance Program for Aged, Blind, and Disabled Legal Immigrants (CAPI), which provides cash assistance to aged, blind, and disabled legal immigrants who are not citizens of the United States, as specified, (3) the state disability insurance program, which provides for the partial compensation for the wage losses suffered by eligible individuals unemployed because of disability, and (4) the workers’ compensation system, which compensates an employee for injuries sustained in the course of the employee’s employment.

The California Constitution requires urgency statutes to include in one

section of the bill a statement of facts constituting the necessity for immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety. The California Constitution requires in each house the

section and the bill to be passed separately, each by rollcall vote entered in the journal, 2 of the membership concurring. This measure would require a bill that reduces a direct benefit payment to an individual with a disability to only be passed by the enactment of an urgency statute and would prohibit the bill from including any other unrelated provisions. The measure would specify that its provisions only apply to SSP, CAPI, the state disability insurance program, and the workers’ compensation system, as specified. The measure would make its provisions self-executing and severable.

TWO_THIRDS NO YES NO Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2025–26 Regular Session commencing on the second day of December 2024, 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: That

Section is added to

Article IV thereof, to read:

SEC. 29. (

a) A bill that reduces a direct benefit payment to an individual with a disability shall only be passed by the enactment of an urgency statute pursuant to

Section 8, and shall not include any other unrelated provisions. (

b) This

section only applies to the following:

(1) State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled (Chapter 3 (commencing with

Section 12000) of Part of Division of the Welfare and Institutions Code).

(2) Cash Assistance Program for Aged, Blind, and Disabled Legal Immigrants (Chapter 10.3 (commencing with

Section 18937) of Part of Division of the Welfare and Institutions Code).

(3) Disability compensation under

Part 2 (commencing with

Section 2601) of Division of the Unemployment Insurance Code.

(4) Temporary and permanent disability indemnity payments under

Article 3 (commencing with

Section 4650) of

Chapter of Part of Division of the Labor Code. (

c) This

section shall be self-executing. If any part or parts of this

section are found to be in conflict with federal law or the United States Constitution, the

section shall be implemented to the maximum extent that federal law and the United States Constitution permit. Any provision held invalid shall be severable from the remaining portions of this section.