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California Proposition 13, Water Bond Measure (March 2000)

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California Proposition 13
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Election date
March 7, 2000
Topic
Bond issues
Status
Approveda Approved
Type
Bond issue
Origin
State Legislature

California Proposition 13 was on the ballot as a bond issue in California on March 7, 2000. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported issuing $1.97 billion in bonds for public water, wastewater treatment, groundwater storage, flood control, stream restoration, watershed protection, and other water-related projects.

A "no" vote opposed issuing $1.97 billion in bonds for public water, wastewater treatment, groundwater storage, flood control, stream restoration, watershed protection, and other water-related projects.


Overview

The ballot measure authorized $1.97 billion in bonds for water-related infrastructure and conservation projects.

Election results

California Proposition 13

Result Votes Percentage

Approved Yes

4,745,872 64.74%
No 2,585,298 35.26%
Results are officially certified.
Source


Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Proposition 13 was as follows:

Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Bond Act.

Ballot summary

The ballot summary for this measure was:

  • This act provides for a bond issue of one billion nine hundred seventy million dollars ($1,970,000,000) to provide funds for a safe drinking water, water quality, flood protection, and water reliability program.
  • Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds.

Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.


Fiscal impact statement

The fiscal impact statement was as follows:

  • State cost of up to $3.4 billion over 25 years to pay off both the principal ($1.97 billion) and interest ($1.4 billion) costs on the bonds. Payments of about $135 million per year.
  • Potential costs of an unknown amount to local governments to operate or maintain projects developed with these bond funds.

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Path to the ballot

Proposition 13 was voted onto the ballot by the California State Legislature via Assembly Bill 1584 of the 1999-2000 Regular Session (Chapter 725, Statutes of 1999).

Votes in legislature to refer to ballot
Chamber Ayes Noes
Assembly 68 11
Senate 30 6

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Footnotes

  1. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.