page_title: California Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 5
section_title: Public reactions
hierarchical_section_title: California Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 5 / Public reactions
caption_attribution_description: English: Chinese Americans Protesting Against SCA5 Outside Assemblyman Ed Chau's office in Monterey Park 中文: 華人反對SCA5
context_page_description: The California Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 5 was introduced by California State Senator Edward Hernandez to the California State Senate on December 3, 2012. This initiative would ask voters to consider eliminating California Proposition 209's ban on the use of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in recruitment, admissions, and retention programs at California's public universities and colleges. SCA-5 was passed in the California Senate on Jan. 30, 2014 but was subsequently withdrawn by Hernandez due to strong opposition, mainly from Asian Americans.
context_section_description: SCA 5 received heightened public attention after it passed the State Senate. A Change.org petition has been launched to press the State Assembly to vote No on SCA 5. The petition gained over 80,000 supporters in less than two weeks.
  According to The Global Times, many Asian-Americans were angered by the bill, which would reduce the number of Asians accepted into state-run universities. Resistance included a petition to stop the bill that received more than 112,000 signatures. Many different Asian lobbying groups also attacked the bill, including the Southeast Asian Resource and Action Center and the Filipino Advocates for Justice in Union City and Oakland.
  Republicans also attacked the bill and went against the Democrats who have a super-majority in the Senate. Republicans spoke at a forum called "Stop SCA 5," which was sponsored by the Chinese-American Institute for Empowerment, which is based in San Francisco.
  The bill stagnated while under intense opposition until Senator Edward Hernandez took it off the table. The bill did not qualify to be put on the election ballot as a referendum.
caption: Chinese Americans protesting against SCA5 outside Assemblyman Ed Chau's office in Monterey Park
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