California General Election Ballot, Tuesday November 6, 2018 - Candidate & Ballot Measure Voter Guide

Authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for existing affordable housing programs for low-income residents, veterans, farmworkers, manufactured and mobile homes, infill, and transit-oriented housing. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $170 million annually over...

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Proposition 2 — Mental Health Housing Program

Passing7,662,528 votes yes (63.4%)4,417,327 votes no (36.6%)

Amends Mental Health Services Act to fund No Place Like Home Program, which finances housing for individuals with mental illness. Ratifies existing law establishing the No Place Like Home Program. Fiscal Impact: Allows the state to use up to $140 million per year of county mental health funds to repay...

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Proposition 3 — Water Bonds

Failing5,879,836 votes yes (49.3%)6,034,991 votes no (50.7%)

Authorizes $8.877 billion in state general obligation bonds for various infrastructure projects. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging $430 million per year over 40 years. Local government savings for water-related projects, likely averaging a couple hundred million dollars annually...

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Proposition 4 — Children’s Hospital Bonds

Passing7,551,298 votes yes (62.7%)4,494,143 votes no (37.3%)

Authorizes $1.5 billion in bonds, to be repaid from state's General Fund, to fund grants for construction, expansion, renovation, and equipping of qualifying children's hospitals. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $80 million annually over the next 35 years.

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Proposition 5 — Property Tax Rules

Failing4,813,251 votes yes (40.2%)7,152,993 votes no (59.8%)

Removes certain transfer requirements for homeowners over 55, severely disabled homeowners, and contaminated or disaster-destroyed property. Fiscal Impact: Schools and local governments each would lose over $100 million in annual property taxes early on, growing to about $1 billion per year. Similar...

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Proposition 6 — Transportation Taxes and Fees

Failing5,283,222 votes yes (43.2%)6,952,081 votes no (56.8%)

Repeals a 2017 transportation law's taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation. Fiscal Impact: Reduced ongoing revenues of $5.1 billion from state fuel and vehicle taxes that mainly would have paid for highway and road maintenance and repairs, as well as transit programs.

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Proposition 7 — Daylight Saving Time

Passing7,167,315 votes yes (59.7%)4,828,564 votes no (40.3%)

Gives Legislature ability to change daylight saving time period by two-thirds vote, if changes are consistent with federal law. Fiscal Impact: This measure has no direct fiscal effect because changes to daylight saving time would depend on future actions by the Legislature and potentially the federal...

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Proposition 8 — Kidney Dialysis Clinics

Failing4,845,264 votes yes (40.1%)7,247,917 votes no (59.9%)

Requires rebates and penalties if charges exceed limit. Requires annual reporting to the state. Prohibits clinics from refusing to treat patients based on payment source. Fiscal Impact: Overall annual effect on state and local governments ranging from net positive impact in the low tens of millions of...

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Proposition 10 — Local Governments and Rent Control

Failing4,949,543 votes yes (40.6%)7,251,443 votes no (59.4%)

Repeals state law that currently restricts the scope of rent-control policies that cities and other local jurisdictions may impose on residential property. Fiscal Impact: Potential net reduction in state and local revenues of tens of millions of dollars per year in the long term. Depending on actions...

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Proposition 11 — Ambulance Employee Breaks

Passing7,181,116 votes yes (59.6%)4,861,831 votes no (40.4%)

Law entitling hourly employees to breaks without being on-call would not apply to private-sector ambulance employees. Fiscal Impact: Likely fiscal benefit to local governments (in the form of lower costs and higher revenues), potentially in the tens of millions of dollars each year.

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Proposition 12 — Farm Animal Cages

Passing7,551,434 votes yes (62.7%)4,499,702 votes no (37.3%)

Establishes minimum requirements for confining certain farm animals. Prohibits sales of meat and egg products from animals confined in noncomplying manner. Fiscal Impact: Potential decrease in state income tax revenues from farm businesses, likely not more than several million dollars annually. State...

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Measure B

Passing119,256 votes yes (63.5%)68,430 votes no (36.5%)

To support early childhood education, drug prevention, literacy , and other programs for children and youth; public health; public safety and enforcement of cannabis laws; shall an ordinance imposing a special tax on commercial cannabis businesses in unincorporated San Joaquin County at a rate of 3.5%...

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Measure D

Passing16,187 votes yes (62.2%)9,819 votes no (37.8%)

Shall the City of Tracy adopt an ordinance establishing a speci al tax on cannabis businesses at annual rates, not to exceed $12.00 per canopy square foot for cultivation (adjusted for inflation), 6% of gross receipts for retail cannabis businesses, and 4% for all other b usinesses; which is expected...

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Measure M

Failing5,756 votes yes (21.8%)20,632 votes no (78.2%)

Shall an ordinance be adopted exempting deed-restricted senior housing, attached homes or detached homes on 4,000 square foot or less lots located in areas identified on the attached map from the City's Growth Management Ordinance, including the implementation section establishing a lottery requirement...

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Measure J

Passing13,664 votes yes (57.8%)9,961 votes no (42.2%)

Shall the measure adopting a Cit y of Manteca ordinance to incre ase an ongoing transient occupancy tax (TOT - hotel tax) from 9% to 12% on hotel charges, increasing t he existing hotel tax by 3%, generating an estimated $450,000 to provide essential public services and improvements needed to support...

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Measure K

Passing48,542 votes yes (75.9%)15,444 votes no (24.1%)

Without increasing local taxes, and only by using existing affordable housing funding, shall public or publicly assisted housing providers within the City of Stockton, according to the City's General Plan, construct, develop, acquire, and/ or convert housing project(s) into decent, safe, sanitary, and...

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Measure L

Passing11,295 votes yes (58.7%)7,947 votes no (41.3%)

To make neighborhoods safer, maintain/improve essential City of Lodi services including: reducing crime; maintaining neighborhood police patrols/gang violence intervention/prevention; fixing potholes/city streets; maintaining neighborhood fire stations; enhancing rapid police/fire response times by restoring...

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Measure E

Failing2,488 votes yes (48.3%)2,661 votes no (51.7%)

To better prepare our students fo r college, careers and jobs by modernizing schools, improving access to technology and learning, and co nstructing a new stadium and all-weather track for year-round use, shall Escalon Unified School District be authorized to issue $2 5,000,000 in bonds at legal rates,...

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Measure G

Failing1,804 votes yes (44.7%)2,229 votes no (55.3%)

To upgrade educational facilitie s, shall Linden Unified School District: modernize classrooms and science labs; improve safety and security ; modernize, construct and equ ip school and support f acilities; update athletic facilities; improve par king and energy usage; and payo ff outstanding liabilities;...

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Measure I

Failing3,992 votes yes (48.9%)4,164 votes no (51.1%)

To provide students with improve d learning environments, build classrooms to maintain smaller classes, replace older portable classrooms with permanent buildings, con struct science labs, and improve career technical facilities, shall Ripon Unified School District be au thorized to issue $38,500,000...

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