Todays date: Saturday July 04 2009, 05:48 am
California Ballot Propositions Recommendations
for the Tuesday November 4th 2008 General Election
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Brief ballot measure descriptions: (Fuller descriptions plus pro & con arguments are available at http://www.smartvoter.org/ca/)
PROP 1A Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act (Bond Act - Majority Approval Required)
To provide Californians a safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices; to provide good-paying jobs and improve California's economy while reducing air polution, global warning greenhouse gases, and our dependence on foreign oil, shall $9.95 billion in bonds be issued to establish a clean, efficient high-speed train service linking Southern California, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with at least 90 percent of bond funds spent for specific projects, with federal and private matching funds required, all bond funds subject to an independent audit?
PROP 2 Standards for Confining Farm Animals (Initiative Statute - Majority Approval Required)
Shall certain farm animals be allowed, for the majority of every day, to fully extend their limbs or wings, lie down, stand up and turn around?
PROP 3 Children’s Hospital Bond Act (Initiative Statute - Majority Approval Required)
Shall $980,000,000 in general obligation bonds be authorized for construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping of eligible children's hospitals?
PROP 4 Waiting Period and Parental Notification before
Termination of Minor’s Pregnancy (Initiative Constitutional Amendment - Majority Approval Required)
Shall the California Constitution be changed to prohibit abortion for an unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent, legal guardian, or, in limited cases, substitute adult relative?
PROP 5 Nonviolent Drug Offenses. Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation (Initiative Statute - Majority Approval Required) Shall $460,000,000 be allocated annually to improve and expand treatment programs?
PROP 6 Police and Law Enforcement Funding. Criminal Penalties and Laws (Initiative Statute - Majority Approval Required) Shall of minimum of $965,000,000 of state funding be required each year for police and local law enforcement? .
PROP 7 Renewable Energy Generation (Initiative Statute - Majority Approval Required)
Shall government-owned utilities be required to generate 20% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2010, a standard currently applicable to private electrical corporations? Shall all utilities be required to generate 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2025?
PROP 8 Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry (Initiative Constitutional Amendment - Majority Approval Required) Shall the California Constitution be changed to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry providing that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California?
PROP 9 Criminal Justice System. Victims’ Rights. Parole (Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute - Majority Approval Required)
Shall notification to victim and opportunity for input during phases of criminal justice process, including bail, pleas, sentencing and parole be required? Shall victim safety be a consideration for bail or parole?
PROP 10 Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable
Energy. Bonds (Initiative Statute - Majority Approval Required)
Shall $5 billion in bonds paid from state's General Fund be authorized to help consumers and others purchase certain vehicles, and to help research in renewable energy and alternative fuel vehicles?
PROP 11 Redistricting Reform: California Voters FIRST
Act (Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute - Majority Approval Required)
Shall the authority for establishing state office boundaries be changed from elected representatives to a commission comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and representatives of neither party selected from the registered voter pool in a multilevel process?
PROP 12 Veterans’ Bond Act of 2008 (Bond - Majority Approval Required)
Shall a nine hundred million dollar ($900,000,000) bond be issued to provide farm and home aid for California veterans?
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Produced by the Mendocino Coast Alliance for Democracy with assistance from UC Institute of Governmental Studies.
Special thanks to Jan Boyd for data gathering and Shan Ricciardi for website design.
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