California Tax on Income Above One Million for Education Funding Initiative (2020)
| California Tax on Income Above One Million for Education Funding Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Taxes and Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The California Tax on Income Above One Million for Education Funding Initiative (#19-0023) was not on the ballot in California as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
On December 5, 2019, proponents announced that the ballot initiative was withdrawn to avoid having two education-related tax measures on the ballot. The other education-related tax measure was the California Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative. Vernon Billy, executive director of the California School Boards Association, said, "After conducting a significant amount of polling and analysis, we have determined that having two measures on the same ballot that — at least in part — provide funding for public schools, risked a scenario where our measure would come up short." Billy said the campaign would seek to place a similar measure on the ballot in 2022.[1]
The ballot measure would have increased the state's personal income tax and corporate income tax on earnings above $1 million and allocated the revenue to local education agencies (school districts, charter schools, and county education offices) and community colleges.[2]
The ballot measure would have increased the tax rates as follows:[2]
- on personal income above $1 million, the rate would increase from 13.3 to 15.3 percent;
- on personal income above $2 million, the rate would increase from 13.3 to 16.3 percent; and
- on corporate income above $1 million, the rate would increase from 8.84 to 13.84 percent.
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot measure is available here.
Sponsors
Supporters
- California School Boards Association[3]
Polls
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| Poll | Support | Oppose | Undecided | Margin of error | Sample size | ||||||||||||||
| PPIC (likely voters) 11/3/2019 - 11/12/2019 | 56.0% | 38.0% | 6.0% | +/-4.3 | 1,008 | ||||||||||||||
| Note: The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org. | |||||||||||||||||||
Path to the ballot
Process in California
In California, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment is equal to 8 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 constitutional amendments certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 997,139 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 requring 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 October 14, 2019, Dennis Meyers filed the ballot initiative.[2] On December 5, 2019, proponents announced that the ballot initiative was withdrawn. Association of California School Administrators executive director Dr. Wesley Smith said, "We are withdrawing our filing and focusing our efforts on future ballots."[1]
See also
External links
Footnotes
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