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Legalized Gambling. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
Legalized Gambling. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
Initiatives
LEGALIZED GAMBLING. INITIATWE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends Constitution to legalize Las Vegas and Atlantic City style gambling. Directs Legislature to pass all laws reasonably necessary to provide option to cities and counties, and if approved by local election, to allow such gaming. Permits gambling presently prohibited by the Constitution, including sports wagering, dice games, slot machines, and banking and percentage games played with cards, dice or any device for money, credit or other representations of value. Creates a three-member state commission to supervise gaming and all persons or things having to do with the operation of gaming within the state. Summary …
Digital Signature. Election Petitions. Public And Private Transactions. Initiative Statute.
Digital Signature. Election Petitions. Public And Private Transactions. Initiative Statute.
Initiatives
DIGITAL SIGNATURE. ELECTION PETITIONS. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRANSACTIONS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Establishes a state agency to issue a digital certificate to any California resident. Requires certificate to generate a verified digital signature that can be used to subscribe to any authorized public or private sector electronic transaction. Authorizes use as driver license, identification or voter registration card at no additional charge. Requires election officials to validate and count digital signatures for candidacy, initiative, referendum and recall petitions if transmitted to a secure website provided by candidate or proponent. Preserves traditional signature methods. Imposes imprisonment and fines for violations of this system. …
Peace Officer And Firefighter Property Tax Exemption
Peace Officer And Firefighter Property Tax Exemption
Initiatives
PEACE OFFICER AND FIREFIGHTER PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends the Constitution to allow the Legislature to provide full or partial property tax exemption for the home of firefighters or police officers if the person died as a result of an injury sustained or disease contracted while on duty or the person is blind in both eyes, has lost the use of two or more limbs, or is totally disabled because of an injury incurred while on duty. Exemption may be granted to the eligible firefighter or police officer or his or her spouse, including an unmarried surviving spouse. …
Local Property Tax. Revenue Allocation. Local Government Control.
Local Property Tax. Revenue Allocation. Local Government Control.
Initiatives
LOCAL PROPERTY TAX. REVENUE ALLOCATION. LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Requires Legislature to return control of local property taxes to local government and revise tax allocation system within three years to meet this requirement. Establishes fixed apportionment of local property tax revenues: 50% to cities and counties for municipal services; 50% to finance county's public schools. Permits cities and counties to allocate portions of their share to special districts. Prohibits further collection of property tax revenues for Educational Revenue Augmentation Funds. Legislature remains obligated to meet its school funding obligations, but not from local revenue sources. Summary of estimate …
Uc Hastings College Of The Law Commencement Exercises Class Of 2000, Uc Hastings College Of The Law
Uc Hastings College Of The Law Commencement Exercises Class Of 2000, Uc Hastings College Of The Law
Commencement Exercises
No abstract provided.
Judges. Restrictions On Judicial Immunity.
Judges. Restrictions On Judicial Immunity.
Initiatives
JUDGES. RESTRICTIONS ON JUDICIAL IMMUNITY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Supersedes existing judicial immunity and creates three 25-member "Special Grand Juries" empowered to: determine if a judge may invoke judicial immunity in a civil suit; indict and, through a special trial jury, convict and sentence a judge for criminal conduct; and permanently remove a judge who receives three adverse immunity decisions or three criminal convictions. Disallows immunity for deliberate violations of law, fraud, conspiracy, intentional due process violations, deliberate disregard of material facts, judicial acts outside the court's jurisdiction, unreasonable delay of a case, or any deliberate constitutional violation. Summary of estimate …
School Facilities. 55% Local Vote. Bonds, Taxes. Accountability Requirements.
School Facilities. 55% Local Vote. Bonds, Taxes. Accountability Requirements.
Initiatives
SCHOOL FACILITIES. 55% LOCAL VOTE. BONDS, TAXES. ACCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENTS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE. Authorizes bonds for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities if approved by 55% vote for projects evaluated by schools, community college districts, county education offices for safety, class size, and information technology needs. Accountability requirements include annual performance and financial audits on use of bond proceeds. Prohibits use of bond proceeds for salaries or school operating expenses. Requires facilities for public charter schools. Authorizes property taxes in excess of 1% limit by 55% vote, rather than current two-thirds, as necessary to pay school bonds. …
Reduce The Impact Of The Alternative Minimum Tax, Daniel J. Lathrope
Reduce The Impact Of The Alternative Minimum Tax, Daniel J. Lathrope
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Legislative Term Limits.
Initiatives
LEGISLATIVE TERM LIMITS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends the California Constitution to extend the limit on years of service for State Senators from two four-year terms to no more than twelve years, and the limit for Assembly members from three two-year terms to no more than twelve years. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local governments: This measure would probably have no direct fiscal impact on the state or local governments.
Repeal Of Proposition 209. Public Employment, Education, And Contracting.
Repeal Of Proposition 209. Public Employment, Education, And Contracting.
Initiatives
REPEAL OF PROPOSITION 209. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, AND CONTRACTING. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Repeals article I, section 31, of the California Constitution which was added by the passage of Proposition 209 at the November 1996 general election. Article I, section 31, generally prohibits state and local governmental agencies and public schools, colleges, and universities from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact …
September Primary And Campaign Finance Reform.
September Primary And Campaign Finance Reform.
Initiatives
SEPTEMBER PRIMARY AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Establishes the first Tuesday in September as a statewide, nonpresidential primary election date. Repeals most campaign finance laws. Limits contributions to statewide candidates to $10,000 per person, and state legislative candidates to $5,000 per person, in each general, primary or special election. Exempts committees of political parties from campaign contribution limits. Adjusts the maximum contribution limits biennially, beginning in the year 2003 to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. Requires candidates to file an online report, within 24 hours of receipt, of every contribution of $5,000 or more. Summary of estimate …
June Primary And Campaign Finance Reform.
June Primary And Campaign Finance Reform.
Initiatives
JUNE PRIMARY AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Establishes the first Tuesday in June as a statewide, nonpresidential primary election date. Repeals most campaign finance laws. Limits contributions to statewide candidates to $10,000 per person, and state legislative candidates to $5,000 per person, in each general, primary or special election. Exempts committees of political parties from campaign contribution limits. Adjusts the maximum contribution limits biennially, beginning in the year 2003, to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. Requires candidates to file an online report, within 24 hours of receipt, of every contribution of $5,000 or more. Summary of estimate …
Elimination Of Public Schools And Funding. Voucher System.
Elimination Of Public Schools And Funding. Voucher System.
Initiatives
ELIMINATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND FUNDING. VOUCHER SYSTEM. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends Constitution to eliminate public education for grades K-12. Prohibits State from operating or regulating K-12 or technical schools and providing textbooks and other instructional materials. Establishes Educational Performance Fund to provide redeemable vouchers for K-12 educational expenses. Eliminates public educational funding after 20 years. Requires testing of students to determine performance levels. Requires Legislature to encourage formation of open-enrollment schools and provide legislation for low cost teacher housing/training complexes. Automatically qualifies credentialed teachers as licensed child care providers who may receive assignments of vouchers. Summary of estimate by …
Redistricting Commission. Election Districts.
Redistricting Commission. Election Districts.
Initiatives
REDISTRICTING COMMISSION. ELECTION DISTRICTS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Creates five-member commission to redraw district boundaries for Congress, State Assembly and Senate, Board of Equalization promptly after each federal census. Commission members appointed by Assembly Speaker, Senate President Pro Tempore, leader of largest minority party in each house; four members select fifth member (Chair). Disqualifies current lobbyists and persons recently seeking or holding elective office. Prohibits district adjustments based on incumbents' residences or voters' political affiliations, race, ethnicity, national origin, unless required by federal law. Requires geographically compact districts. Permits Legislature to reject redistricting plans by three-fourths vote of both houses. Summary …
Election District Reapportionment. Two-Thirds Vote.
Election District Reapportionment. Two-Thirds Vote.
Initiatives
ELECTION DISTRICT REAPPORTIONMENT. TWO-THIRDS VOTE. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Requires two-thirds concurrence of both houses of Legislature to redraw district boundaries for Congress, State Assembly and Senate, Board of Equalization. Imposes deadline for passage of required redistricting plans following federal decennial census. Prohibits use of data regarding voters' party affiliations or voting history. Prohibits consideration of potential impact on incumbents or political parties. Links district boundaries: two Assembly districts comprise one Senate district; ten Senate districts comprise one Board of Equalization district. Requires single bill for all Senate, Assembly, Equalization district adjustments, and single bill for all adjustments to congressional districts. …
Political Contributions.
Initiatives
POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION LIMITS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Repeals and replaces current campaign finance laws. Limits campaign contributions by any person as follows: $25,000 annually to a political party or its committee; $10,000 annually to a candidate for statewide elective office; and $5,000 annually to a candidate for legislative office. Exempts sponsored committee formed to support or oppose a ballot measure from contribution limits. Requires adjustment of contribution limits to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index beginning 2003 and in odd-numbered years thereafter. Requires candidates for statewide or legislative offices to report contributions of $5,000 or more online within 24 hours. Summary …
Election Districts. Redistricting Commission.
Election Districts. Redistricting Commission.
Initiatives
ELECTION DISTRICTS. REDISTRICTING COMMISSION. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Creates 17-member commission to redraw district boundaries for Congress, State Assembly and Senate, and Board of Equalization following decennial federal census. Sixteen Commission members appointed by legislative leadership, but current lobbyists and persons recently seeking or holding elective office are disqualified; Commission selects seventeenth member, who cannot be from a political party represented in Legislature. Prohibits consideration of or effect on incumbents or voters' political affiliations or voting history in making district adjustments. Requires geographically compact districts. Provides for Supreme Court review and permits voter referendum of redistricting plan. Summary of estimate by …
Referendum Process.
Initiatives
REFERENDUM PROCESS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Changes process for voter approval or rejection of new laws. Only entire law could be challenged. Request for petition form and $5,000 deposit would stay new law from taking effect. Reduces total signatures required to qualify petition for ballot from 5 to 2 percent of all votes cast for all candidates for Governor in preceding gubernatorial election. Extends petition deadline to 150 days after form issued. Requires petition printable from Internet and identifies Internet site for information. Removes requirement that petition include challenged law. Secretary of State to provide running count of signatures submitted. Summary …
Funding Private Investigation Of Santa Barbara County Court Case Files Of Insanity Actions.
Funding Private Investigation Of Santa Barbara County Court Case Files Of Insanity Actions.
Initiatives
FUNDING PRIVATE INVESTIGATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY COURT CASE FILES OF INSANITY ACTIONS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Requires state to fund investigation of court files of insanity actions in Santa Barbara County. Funds to be available to voter approved investigator. Investigator is provided a superior court judge and courtroom equipped with video and sound recording equipment to take testimony on early court case files of insanity actions. Requires state to broadcast, on county government television, video documentation of investigation at minimum once each week for six months and, thereafter, once each month for ten years. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and …
Legislators' And State Officers' Compensation.
Legislators' And State Officers' Compensation.
Initiatives
LEGISLATORS' AND STATE OFFICERS' COMPENSATION. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends Constitution to: reduce salaries of legislators to $75,000 per year; requires Legislature's and voters' approval to adjust state officer salaries and benefits; reduces legislators' travel and living expenses to $75,00 per day, while in session, for up to 120 days annually; allows increases to expense payments if Legislature and voters approve; requires forfeiture of legislators' compensation if Budget Act not passed by June 15 of each year; requires compensation be forfeited until Budget Act is presented to the Governor; allows payment of forfeited compensation if Legislature and voters approve. Summary of …
Reapportionment.
Initiatives
REAPPORTIONMENT. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Requires the Judicial Council, each year following year of the national census, to appoint a 3-member panel of Special Masters to hold public hearings and prepare plans for the reapportionment of legislative, congressional, and Board of Equalization districts, in accordance with specified criteria. Requires California Supreme Court to review the reapportionment plans prepared by the Special Masters and determine whether the plans comply with the California Constitution, and permits any elector to petition the Supreme Court to challenge reapportionment plans and propose an alternative plan. Adopted plans are subject to voter approval. Summary of estimate by …
Tobacco Litigation Settlement Funds. Designating State And Local Use Of Funds.
Tobacco Litigation Settlement Funds. Designating State And Local Use Of Funds.
Initiatives
TOBACCO LITIGATION SETTLEMENT FUNDS. DESIGNATING STATE AND LOCAL USE OF FUNDS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Establishes, effective 1/1/2001, California Tobacco Settlement Fund and city and county Tobacco Settlement Funds. Requires proceeds from national tobacco litigation settlement be paid to such Funds and restricts annual allocations by state to designated health care services, and by cities and counties to health care and human services. When state tax revenues are forecasted to be less than prior fiscal year, the Legislature, by two-thirds vote, may reallocate state settlement proceeds. Allocation restrictions shall not apply to a county with population less than 750,000. Summary of estimate …
Legalized Gambling.
Initiatives
LEGALIZED GAMBLING. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Legalizes Las Vegas and Atlantic City type gambling for a period of 28 years at two locations only, California City in Kern County and an Indian reservation to be selected by majority vote of all California tribes recognized by the federal government. Permits gambling presently prohibited including slot machines and various other banked games. Creates three-member state commission to supervise gaming activities, including the issuance of permits. Upon expiration of 28 years, Legislature may: further extend experimental program; extend legalized gambling to all counties and Indian tribes; or eliminate gambling in its entirety. Summary of …
California Tobacco Litigation Settlement Funds. Allocating State Use To Designated Health Programs.
California Tobacco Litigation Settlement Funds. Allocating State Use To Designated Health Programs.
Initiatives
CALIFORNIA TOBACCO LITIGATION SETTLEMENT FUNDS. ALLOCATING STATE USE TO DESIGNATED HEALTH PROGRAMS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Establishes California Tobacco Settlement Fund effective 1/1/2001. Requires state monies received from the 1998 national tobacco litigation settlement be paid into Fund and restricts annual allocation of Fund to designated categories of health care services including: prescription drugs, community based long term care, emergency medical services, tobacco prevention, nonprofit clinics, school nurses services, trauma centers, certain hospitals, poison control centers and other programs. Legislature, by two-thirds vote, may reallocate tobacco settlement proceeds when state tax revenues are forecasted to be less than the prior fiscal year. …
Prohibition On Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls And E-Mail Advertisements.
Prohibition On Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls And E-Mail Advertisements.
Initiatives
PROHIBITION ON UNSOLICITED TELEMARKETING CALLS AND E-MAIL ADVERTISEMENTS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Makes it illegal to make any unsolicited telephone call to a residential telephone subscriber for the purpose of selling goods or services unless the seller has an ongoing business or personal relationship with the recipient, or the recipient has elected to receive such calls. Makes it illegal to send unsolicited e-mail advertisements to any electronic mail address in California unless the advertiser has an ongoing business or personal relationship with the recipient. Authorizes civil enforcement and recovery of civil damages by private parties. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and …
Mandatory Defense Of Initiatives. Public Funding For Attorney Fees.
Mandatory Defense Of Initiatives. Public Funding For Attorney Fees.
Initiatives
MANDATORY DEFENSE OF INITIATIVES. PUBLIC FUNDING FOR ATTORNEY FEES. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends Constitution to: Require Governor to direct Attorney General to defend, through the highest appellate court, any lawsuit challenging an initiative approved by the voters; require initiative proponent be a party to any legal challenge; require state to pay attorney's fees and legal costs incurred by proponent as a party to any challenge; require party that loses a legal challenge to an approved initiative to pay reasonable legal costs and attorney's fees; defines proponent, and gives proponent of initiatives the right to sue government to enforce the initiative. …
Prayer In Public Schools.
Initiatives
PRAYER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends Constitution to require at least one minute of silence, at the beginning of school day, during which kindergarten through 12th grade students can choose to openly pray or not pray. Prohibits discrimination against students who exercise religious freedom in public schools. Provides that the Bible is a recognized source of history and students may base reports on it. Mandates daily opportunity for students to recite Pledge of Allegiance and requires retention of the word "God" in the pledge. Requires publication of measure's provisions in student handbooks. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst …
Elections. Internet Voting, Voter Registration And Initiative Petitions.
Elections. Internet Voting, Voter Registration And Initiative Petitions.
Initiatives
ELECTIONS. INTERNET VOTING, VOTER REGISTRATION AND INITIATIVE PETITIONS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Requires Secretary of State to promulgate regulations by January 1, 2002, providing for a network system for the collection, storage, and processing of electronically generated and transmitted digital messages permitting electors, at their option, to sign any initiative petition, register to vote and vote in any election via the Internet. The system designated by the Secretary of State must be secure, provide reliable authentication of digital signatures, be accessible to the public over the Internet and be available for posting election returns for every election in California. Summary of estimate …
Class Size Reduction In Grades 9 Through 12.
Class Size Reduction In Grades 9 Through 12.
Initiatives
CLASS SIZE REDUCTION IN GRADES 9 THROUGH 12. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Amends the Education Code to expand the Program to Reduce Class Size in Two Courses in Grade 9 ("Program") to a program to reduce class size in grades 9 through 12. Program provides an average of no more than 20 students per certificated teacher and no more than 22 students in any participating class and includes all core curriculum classes. Allows school districts that maintain any of grades 9 through 12 to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for an apportionment to implement the Program. Summary of estimate by …
Right To Keep And Bear Arms.
Initiatives
RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends the California Constitution to state Article I, Section 1 includes the right to keep and bear arms in defense of self, family and home. All State regulation of the right to keep and bear arms will be subject to strict scrutiny review. The Amendment and state law preempts all county, city, and local government action on this subject. The Amendment does not limit the State from regulating the acquisition and possession of arms by felons, minors, the mentally incompetent, and persons subject to restraining orders based on their violent conduct. …