Cryptic Knight
29-10-2006, 04:53
California Proposition Review
Proposition 1A: Transportation Funding Protection. Legislative Constitutional Amendment. Summary: Protects transportation funding for traffic congestion relief projects, safety improvements, and local streets and roads. Prohibits the state sales tax on motor vehicle fuels from being used for any purpose other than transportation improvements. Authorizes loans of these funds only in the case of severe state fiscal hardship. Requires loans of revenues from states sales tax on motor vehicle fuels to be fully repaid within the three years. Restricts loans to no more than twice in any 10-year period. Fiscal Impact: No revenue effect or cost effects.
Proposition 1B Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006. Summary: This act makes safety improvements and repairs to state highways, upgrades freeways to reduce congestion, repairs local streets and roads, upgrades highways along major transportation corridors, imporves siesmic safety of local bridges, expands public transit, helps complete the state's network of car pool lanes, reduces air pollution, and improves anti-terrorism security at shipping ports by providing for a bond issue not to exceed $19,925,000,000. Fiscal impact: State costs of approximately $38.9 billion over 30 years to repay bonds. Additional unknown state and local operations and maintenance costs.
Propostition 1C Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006. Summary: For the purpose of providing shelters for battered women and their children, clean and safe housing for low-income senior citizens; homeownership assistance for the disabled, military veterans, and working families; and repairs and accessibility improvements to apartment for families and disabled citizens, the state shall issue bonds totaling $2,850,000,000 paid from exisiting state funds at an average annual cost of $204,000,000 per year over the 30 year life of the bonds. Requires reporting and publication of annual independent audited reports showing use of fund, and limits administration and overhead costs.
Proposition 1D Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006. This $10,416,000,000 bond issue will provide needed funding to relieve public school overcrowding and to repair older schools. It will improve earthquake safety and fund vocational educational facilities in public schools. Bond funds must be spent according to strict accountability measures. Funds will also be used to repair and upgrade exisiting public college and university buildings and to build new classrooms to accommodate the growing student enrollment in the California Community Colleges, the University of California, and the California State University.
Proposition 1E Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006 Summary: This act rebuilds and repairs California's most vulnerable flood control structures to protect homes and prevent loss of life from flood-related disasters, including levee failures, flash floods, and mudslides; it protects California's drinking water supply system by rebuilding delta levees that are vulnerable to earthquakes and storms; by authroizing a $409 billion dollar bond act. Fiscal Impact; State costs of approximately $8 billion over 30 years to repay bonds. Reduction in local property tax revenue of potentially up to several million dollars annually.
Proposition 83:Sex Offenders, Sexually Violent Predators.Summary: Increases penalties for violent and habitual sex offenders and child molesters. Prohibits residence near schools and parks. Requires GPS monitoring of registered sex offenders. Fiscal Impact: Net State operating costs within ten years of up to a couple of hundred million dollars annually.
Proposition 84 Water Qualitity, Safety and Supply, Flood Control, Natural Resource Protection. Park Improvements, Bonds, Initiative Statue. Summary: Funds Water, flood control, natural resources, park and conservation projects by authorizing $5,388,000,000 in general obligation bonds. Emergency drinking water safety provisions. Fiscal Impact: state cost of $10.5 billion over 30 years to repay bonds. Reduced local property tax revenues of several million dollars annually. Unknown state and local operations and maintenance costs, potentially tens of millions annually.
Proposition 85 Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Summary: Amends California Constitution prohibiting abortion for unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent/gaurdian, except in medical emergency or with parental waiver. Mandates reporting requirements. Authorizes monetary damages against physicians for violation.
Propostition 86 Tax on Cigarettes, Initiative Consitutional Amendment and Statute. Summary: Imposes additional $2.60 per pack excise tax on cigarettes and indirecty increases taxes on other tobacco products. Provides funding for various health programs, children's health coverage, and tobacco-related programs. Fiscal Impact: Increase in excise tax revenues of about $2.1 billion annually.
Proposition 87 Alternative Energy, Research, Production, Incentives, Tax on California Oil Producers, Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statue: Summary: Establishes $4 billion program to reduce petroleum consumption through incentives for alternative energy education and training. Funded by tax on California oil producers. Fiscal Impact: State Oil Tax Revenues of $225 million to $485 million annually for alternative energy programs totaling $4 billion. State and local revenue reductions up to low tens of milllions of dollars annually.
Propostition 88 Education Funding, Real Property Parcel Tax. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute. Summary: imposes $50 tax on each real property parcel to provide additional public school funding for kindergarten through grade 12. Exempts certain elderly, disabled homeowners from tax. Use of funds restricted to specific educational purposes. Fiscal Impact: State parcel tax revenue of roughly $450 million annually, allocated to school districts for specified education programs.
Propostition 89 Political Campaigns, Public Financing, Corporate Tax Increase, Campaign Contribution and Expenditure Limits, Initiative Statute. Summary: Provides that eligible candidates for state elective office may receive public campaign funding. Increases tax on corporations and financial institutions by 0.2 percent to fund program. Imposes new campaign contribution/expenditure limits. Fiscal Impact: Increased revenues (primarily from increased taxes on corporations and financial institutions) totaling more than $200 million annually to pay for the public financing of political campaigns.
Proposition 90 Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Summary: Bars State/local government from condemning or damaging private property to promote other private projects, uses. Limits government's authority to adopt certain land use, housing, consumer, environmental, workplace laws/regulations. Fiscal Impact: Increased annual goverment costs to pay property owners for losses to their property associated with new laws and rules, and for property acquisitions.
Any thoughts and stances?
Proposition 1A: Transportation Funding Protection. Legislative Constitutional Amendment. Summary: Protects transportation funding for traffic congestion relief projects, safety improvements, and local streets and roads. Prohibits the state sales tax on motor vehicle fuels from being used for any purpose other than transportation improvements. Authorizes loans of these funds only in the case of severe state fiscal hardship. Requires loans of revenues from states sales tax on motor vehicle fuels to be fully repaid within the three years. Restricts loans to no more than twice in any 10-year period. Fiscal Impact: No revenue effect or cost effects.
Proposition 1B Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006. Summary: This act makes safety improvements and repairs to state highways, upgrades freeways to reduce congestion, repairs local streets and roads, upgrades highways along major transportation corridors, imporves siesmic safety of local bridges, expands public transit, helps complete the state's network of car pool lanes, reduces air pollution, and improves anti-terrorism security at shipping ports by providing for a bond issue not to exceed $19,925,000,000. Fiscal impact: State costs of approximately $38.9 billion over 30 years to repay bonds. Additional unknown state and local operations and maintenance costs.
Propostition 1C Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006. Summary: For the purpose of providing shelters for battered women and their children, clean and safe housing for low-income senior citizens; homeownership assistance for the disabled, military veterans, and working families; and repairs and accessibility improvements to apartment for families and disabled citizens, the state shall issue bonds totaling $2,850,000,000 paid from exisiting state funds at an average annual cost of $204,000,000 per year over the 30 year life of the bonds. Requires reporting and publication of annual independent audited reports showing use of fund, and limits administration and overhead costs.
Proposition 1D Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006. This $10,416,000,000 bond issue will provide needed funding to relieve public school overcrowding and to repair older schools. It will improve earthquake safety and fund vocational educational facilities in public schools. Bond funds must be spent according to strict accountability measures. Funds will also be used to repair and upgrade exisiting public college and university buildings and to build new classrooms to accommodate the growing student enrollment in the California Community Colleges, the University of California, and the California State University.
Proposition 1E Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006 Summary: This act rebuilds and repairs California's most vulnerable flood control structures to protect homes and prevent loss of life from flood-related disasters, including levee failures, flash floods, and mudslides; it protects California's drinking water supply system by rebuilding delta levees that are vulnerable to earthquakes and storms; by authroizing a $409 billion dollar bond act. Fiscal Impact; State costs of approximately $8 billion over 30 years to repay bonds. Reduction in local property tax revenue of potentially up to several million dollars annually.
Proposition 83:Sex Offenders, Sexually Violent Predators.Summary: Increases penalties for violent and habitual sex offenders and child molesters. Prohibits residence near schools and parks. Requires GPS monitoring of registered sex offenders. Fiscal Impact: Net State operating costs within ten years of up to a couple of hundred million dollars annually.
Proposition 84 Water Qualitity, Safety and Supply, Flood Control, Natural Resource Protection. Park Improvements, Bonds, Initiative Statue. Summary: Funds Water, flood control, natural resources, park and conservation projects by authorizing $5,388,000,000 in general obligation bonds. Emergency drinking water safety provisions. Fiscal Impact: state cost of $10.5 billion over 30 years to repay bonds. Reduced local property tax revenues of several million dollars annually. Unknown state and local operations and maintenance costs, potentially tens of millions annually.
Proposition 85 Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Summary: Amends California Constitution prohibiting abortion for unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent/gaurdian, except in medical emergency or with parental waiver. Mandates reporting requirements. Authorizes monetary damages against physicians for violation.
Propostition 86 Tax on Cigarettes, Initiative Consitutional Amendment and Statute. Summary: Imposes additional $2.60 per pack excise tax on cigarettes and indirecty increases taxes on other tobacco products. Provides funding for various health programs, children's health coverage, and tobacco-related programs. Fiscal Impact: Increase in excise tax revenues of about $2.1 billion annually.
Proposition 87 Alternative Energy, Research, Production, Incentives, Tax on California Oil Producers, Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statue: Summary: Establishes $4 billion program to reduce petroleum consumption through incentives for alternative energy education and training. Funded by tax on California oil producers. Fiscal Impact: State Oil Tax Revenues of $225 million to $485 million annually for alternative energy programs totaling $4 billion. State and local revenue reductions up to low tens of milllions of dollars annually.
Propostition 88 Education Funding, Real Property Parcel Tax. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute. Summary: imposes $50 tax on each real property parcel to provide additional public school funding for kindergarten through grade 12. Exempts certain elderly, disabled homeowners from tax. Use of funds restricted to specific educational purposes. Fiscal Impact: State parcel tax revenue of roughly $450 million annually, allocated to school districts for specified education programs.
Propostition 89 Political Campaigns, Public Financing, Corporate Tax Increase, Campaign Contribution and Expenditure Limits, Initiative Statute. Summary: Provides that eligible candidates for state elective office may receive public campaign funding. Increases tax on corporations and financial institutions by 0.2 percent to fund program. Imposes new campaign contribution/expenditure limits. Fiscal Impact: Increased revenues (primarily from increased taxes on corporations and financial institutions) totaling more than $200 million annually to pay for the public financing of political campaigns.
Proposition 90 Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Summary: Bars State/local government from condemning or damaging private property to promote other private projects, uses. Limits government's authority to adopt certain land use, housing, consumer, environmental, workplace laws/regulations. Fiscal Impact: Increased annual goverment costs to pay property owners for losses to their property associated with new laws and rules, and for property acquisitions.
Any thoughts and stances?