Four more initiatives added in last-minute California qualification

June 25, 2010

SACRAMENTO, California:

Nine initiated propositions and only one legislative referral have qualified for the November 2, 2010 ballot in California. On the June 24 deadline for making the cut, the Office of the California Secretary of State announced that the Final Four had slipped in under the wire and onto the ballot. The nine successful initiated measures join one referred measure (Water Bonds). Although the deadline for initiated measures has now passed, the California State Legislature still has several weeks to add additional referred measures to the November ballot.

Some ballot measure watchers say that the theme of the 2010 ballot is taxes, government spending and fiscal policy. Three of the newly-certified California measures support that observation. One measure would allow the state budget (but not tax increases) to be enacted with a simple majority vote of the California legislature versus the current 2/3rds requirement. Another says that voters must give permission before any new taxes can be imposed and a third measure eliminates three corporate tax breaks.

The fourth newly-certified measure will allow a different set of trend-spotters to claim that the 2010 ballot is all about The War of Redistricting.

Of the nine initiated measures on the November ballot, 4 propose new statutes, while 5 would amend the California Constitution.

List of qualified measures

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result
CISS	Proposition 19	Marijuana	Legalize and tax marijuana	d
CICA	Proposition 20	Elections	Congressional district lines to be re-drawn by a committee	a
CISS	Proposition 21	Taxes	Increase vehicle license fees by $18 a year to fund state parks	d
CICA	Proposition 22	State spending	State government prohibited from taking designated types of local funds	a
CISS	Proposition 23	Environment	Suspend AB 32, the "Global Warming Solutions Act" until unemployment falls below 5.5% for a year	d
CISS	Proposition 24	Taxes	Eliminates three business tax breaks	d
CICA	Proposition 25	State spending	Budget and related legislation can be passed with simple majority, rather than current 2/3rds requirement	a
CICA	Proposition 26	Taxes	Requires a 2/3 supermajority vote in the legislature to pass certain state and local fees	a
CICA	Proposition 27	Elections	Return task of redistricting to the California State Legislature (repealing Prop 11)	d

See also

Propositions •	Recall	• Law

• California 2010 ballot propositions
• California signature requirements