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California No Taxes on Residents Without Students for Public Schools Initiative (2018)
| California No Taxes on Residents Without Students for Public Schools Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Taxes and Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The California No Taxes on Residents Without Students for Public Schools Initiative (#17-0028) did not qualify to appear on the ballot in California as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have added a provision to the state constitution prohibiting the state and local governments from levying or assessing taxes and fees for public schools and the University of California on residents that did not have financially-dependent students enrolled in public schools.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The official ballot title was as follows:[2]
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Exempts Residents Who Have No Dependent Enrolled in Public Education from Taxes, Fees, and Other Charges for Public Education. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.[3] |
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Petition summary
The summary provided for inclusion on signature petition sheets was as follows:[2]
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Exempts California residents who have no dependent enrolled in California’s public kindergarten schools, public elementary schools, public secondary schools, community colleges, or state universities from paying taxes, fees, and other charges to fund such public institutions or specified public education expenses.[3] |
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Fiscal impact
- Note: The fiscal impact statement for a California ballot initiative authorized for circulation is prepared by the state's legislative analyst and director of finance.
The fiscal impact statement was as follows:[2]
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Potential reduction of state and local taxes and fees totaling in the low tens of billions of dollars per year. The state and local governments potentially could have to take actions to bring their budgets into balance—by reducing spending and/or raising other taxes or fees.[3] |
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Constitutional changes
- See also: Article IX, California Constitution
The measure would have added a Section 17 to Article IX of the California Constitution.[1] The full text of the constitutional amendment is available here.
Path to the ballot
In California, the number of signatures needed to qualify a measure for the ballot is based on the total number of votes cast for the office of governor. For an initiated constitutional amendment, petitioners must collect signatures equal to 8 percent of the most recent gubernatorial vote. To get a measure on the 2018 ballot, the number of signatures required was 585,407. In California, initiatives can be circulated for 180 days. Signatures needed to be certified at least 131 days before the 2018 general election, which was around June 28, 2018. As the signature verification process can take several weeks, the California secretary of state issues suggested deadlines for several months before the certification deadline.
The timeline for the initiative is as follows:[4]
- Lee Olsen submitted a letter requesting a title and summary on September 5, 2017.
- A title and summary were issued by the California attorney general's office on November 9, 2017.
- Proponents of the initiative needed to submit 365,880 valid signatures by May 8, 2018, in order for it to make the ballot.
- On May 22, 2018, the secretary of state announced that the initiative failed to make the ballot.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 California Attorney General, "Initiative #17-0028," September 5, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 California Secretary of State, "Initiatives and Referenda Cleared for Circulation," accessed March 6, 2017
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Ballot Measures," accessed September 6, 2017
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