California Changes to Proposition 47 and Criminal Trial Practices Measure (2024)
| California Changes to Proposition 47 and Criminal Trial Practices Measure (2024) | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Civil and criminal trials and Law enforcement | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin State legislature |
The California Changes to Proposition 47 and Criminal Trial Practices Measure was not on the ballot in California as a legislatively referred state statute on November 5, 2024.[1]
The measure would have made changes to Proposition 47, which was passed in 2014, including authorizing persons convicted of two or more theft-related offenses to be punished as a misdemeanor or felony based on the value of the property involved. Proposition 47 classified certain crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies unless the defendant had prior convictions for murder, rape, certain sex offenses or certain gun crimes; allowing resentencing for those currently serving a prison sentence for any of the offenses that the initiative reduced to misdemeanors; and creating the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund to receive appropriations based on savings from the initiative. Legislators can't make any changes to laws enacted through the initiative process without voter approval through a legislatively referred state statute.
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
To put a legislatively referred state statute that amends an initiative before voters, a two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required in both the California State Senate and the California House of Representatives.
Senate Bill 22 was introduced on December 5, 2022. It passed the Senate on May 24, 2023, by a vote of 36-0.[1]
| Vote in the California State Senate | |||
| Requirement: Simple majority vote of all members in each chamber | |||
Number of yes votes required: 21  | |||
| Yes | No | Not voting | |
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| Total | 36 | 0 | 4 |
| Total percent | 90.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% |
| Democrat | 28 | 0 | 4 |
| Republican | 8 | 0 | 8 |
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