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California Ban Sale and Registration of Gasoline and Diesel Passenger Vehicles Initiative (2020)
| California Ban Sale and Registration of Gasoline and Diesel Passenger Vehicles Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Business regulation and Transportation | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The California Ban Sale and Registration of Gasoline and Diesel Passenger Vehicles Initiative (#19-0031) was not on the ballot in California as an initiated state statute on November 3, 2020.
The ballot measure would have banned the sale or registration of gasoline and diesel passenger vehicles and light trucks in California. Therefore, according to the ballot measure, plug-in hybrids and all-electric passenger vehicles and light trucks would have been permitted. The ballot measure would have allowed the California Air Resources Board to grant exemptions.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The official ballot title was as follows:[2]
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Prohibits Sale or Registration of Gas-only and Diesel-only Passenger Vehicles and Light Trucks Manufactured After 2020. Initiative Statute.[3] |
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Petition summary
The summary provided for inclusion on signature petition sheets was as follows:[2]
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Prohibits the sale or registration, in the State of California, of gasoline-only and diesel-only passenger vehicles and light trucks, if such vehicles were manufactured after 2020. Limits the sale or registration of passenger vehicles and light trucks to: (1) vehicles manufactured before 2020; and (2) plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles manufactured after 2020. Authorizes the California Air Resources Board to grant reasonable exemptions to sale and registration prohibitions.[3] |
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Fiscal impact
The fiscal impact statement was as follows:[2]
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It is the opinion of the Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance that the measure could result in a substantial net change in state and local finances.[3] |
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Full text
The full text of the ballot measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in California
In California, the number of signatures required for an initiated state statute is equal to 5 percent of the votes cast in the preceding gubernatorial election. Petitions are allowed to circulate for 180 days from the date the attorney general prepares the petition language. Signatures need to be certified at least 131 days before the general election. As the verification process can take multiple months, the secretary of state provides suggested deadlines for ballot initiatives.
The requirements to get initiated state statutes certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 623,212 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline for signature verification was June 25, 2020. However, the process of verifying signatures can take multiple months. The recommended deadlines were March 3, 2020, for an initiative requiring a full check of signatures and April 21, 2020, for an initiative requiring a random sample of signatures.
Signatures are first filed with local election officials, who determine the total number of signatures submitted. If the total number is equal to at least 100 percent of the required signatures, then local election officials perform a random check of signatures submitted in their counties. If the random sample estimates that more than 110 percent of the required number of signatures are valid, the initiative is eligible for the ballot. If the random sample estimates that between 95 and 110 percent of the required number of signatures are valid, a full check of signatures is done to determine the total number of valid signatures. If less than 95 percent are estimated to be valid, the initiative does not make the ballot.
Stages of this initiative
On November 25, 2019, John Hankey filed the ballot initiative.[1] Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) released ballot language for the initiative on January 29, 2020, which allowed proponents to begin collecting signatures. No signatures were filed for the initiative to appear on the 2020 ballot. The deadline to file signatures for the 2022 ballot was July 27, 2020.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 California Attorney General, "Initiative 19-0031," November 25, 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 California Secretary of State, "Initiatives and Referenda Cleared for Circulation," accessed January 10, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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