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Passing6,751,018 votes yes (56.2%)5,258,157 votes no (43.8%)
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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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...
Learn MoreFailing5,879,836 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...
Learn MorePassing7,551,298 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.
Learn MoreFailing4,813,251 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...
Learn MoreFailing5,283,222 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.
Learn MorePassing7,167,315 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...
Learn MoreFailing4,845,264 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...
Learn MoreFailing4,949,543 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...
Learn MorePassing7,181,116 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.
Learn MorePassing7,551,434 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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Failing77,680 votes yes (39.87%)117,156 votes no (60.13%)
Shall County adopt the ordinance proposed by initiative petition and known as Medicinal Cannabis Measure to retain the ban on commercial adult-use cannabis activity; allow and regulate commercial medicinal cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, testing, retailing, distribution, and microbusiness in the...
Learn MoreFailing92,634 votes yes (47.62%)101,877 votes no (52.38%)
Shall County adopt the ordinance proposed by initiative petition and known as Kern Regulation and Taxation of Cannabis Act of 2018 to allow and regulate commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis retailing, testing, cultivation, processing, packaging, and distribution in the unincorporated area, subject...
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Failing530 votes yes (28.8%)1,310 votes no (71.2%)
Shall the measure establishing a utility users tax of up to a maximum of 7% on charges for telecommunications, video, electricity and gas services to raise approximately $700,000 to be spent for city services, including police, fire, and other emergency services, and street, sidewalk, sewer, public works...
Learn MorePassing1,037 votes yes (56.6%)795 votes no (43.4%)
Shall the measure establishing a tax of up to 6% of gross revenues on commercial cannabis business operations, excepting cultivation, and a tax of up to $6 per square foot of space used for commercial cannabis cultivation, as adjusted annually by CPI, all as described in the Ordinance enacting the tax,...
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Passing45,835 votes yes (50.05%)45,738 votes no (49.95%)
To prevent cuts/improve 911 emergency response, police/fire protection, anti-gang/drug units, neighborhood police patrols; rapid response to assaults, robberies, gang violence, home burglaries; crime prevention; address homelessness; retain, attract jobs/businesses; unrestricted general revenue purposes;...
Learn MoreFailing43,383 votes yes (47.65%)47,656 votes no (52.35%)
Shall the measure amending the Bakersfield Municipal Code to allow medical marijuana store front dispensaries, cultivation sites, manufacturers, distributors, and delivery operations with a valid permit, and which will impose a 7.5% excise tax that will last until terminated by voters, [based on current...
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Failing653 votes yes (42.32%)890 votes no (57.68%)
To maintain vital services, improve McFarland's streets and roads, maintain local police and fire protection and 911-emergency response times; shall the city of McFarland enact a utility users tax at the rate of five percent for all utilities, for ten years, providing approximately four hundred ninety-four...
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Failing1,838 votes yes (54.64%)1,526 votes no (45.36%)
To improve Wasco Union High School by upgrading facilities, including new gymnasium and swimming pool; repairing, constructing, reconstructing and equipping educational facilities to better serve students and community; to qualify for potential State matching funds, shall Wasco Union High School District...
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Passing1,401 votes yes (73.7%)500 votes no (26.3%)
To repair or replace aging schools with safe, modernized facilities, improve student safety and security, rehabilitate deteriorated roofs, plumbing and electrical systems, upgrade technology, acquire, construct, repair, and equip schools, and provide access to facilities needed for success, shall Arvin...
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Passing21,711 votes yes (62.77%)12,879 votes no (37.23%)
To improve school safety and security, construct/equip new school facilities to relieve severe overcrowding, and repair/upgrade older classrooms, labs, facilities and instructional technology supporting student achievement/college readiness in math, science, engineering, technology, arts, shall Panama-Buena...
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Failing25,610 votes yes (35.32%)46,899 votes no (64.68%)
To improve county services in the unincorporated area of Kern County including public safety and protection, parks, code enforcement, roads and libraries, shall a 1% (1 cent) general purpose sales tax be adopted in the unincorporated area with the estimated $35 million in annual revenue to be used for...
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Failing2,431 votes yes (45.65%)2,894 votes no (54.35%)
To maintain access to life-saving emergency medical care for victims of accidents, heart attacks, strokes and other medical emergencies; keep equipment and hospital facilities up-to-date; expand the Emergency Department; and attract qualified doctors and medical specialists, should Kern Valley Healthcare...
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Failing2,815 votes yes (32.53%)5,838 votes no (67.47%)
To improve parks and recreation for children, families and senior citizens; upgrade and renovate outdated parks; build new restrooms; construct a community, aquatic, and senior center; shall Tehachapi Valley Recreation & Park District issue $43,000,000 of bonds at legal rates, raising on average...
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