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 G-18 — Prohibition of any new petroleum extraction and all well stimulation treatments

Failing57,498 votes yes (46.37%)66,493 votes no (53.63%)

Shall an ordinance be adopted amending the San Luis Obispo County General Plan and County Code to prohibit any new petroleum extraction and all well stimulation treatments, as defined in the full-text of the measure, including hydraulic fracturing and acid well stimulation, on all lands within the unincorporated...

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Measure D-18 — Imposition of Cannabis Business Tax in City of Morro Bay

Passing3,955 votes yes (72.22%)1,521 votes no (27.78%)

Shall the measure, known as the CANNABIS TAX, imposing maximum tax of ten cents per $1 of proceeds of commercial cannabis operations, annual maximum tax of $25 per square foot of commercial cultivation area (CPI adjustments), no sunset clause, estimated $25,000 to $225,000 annual collections on currently...

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Measure E-18 — Imposition of Cannabis Business Tax in City of Atascadero

Passing9,399 votes yes (73.5%)3,389 votes no (26.5%)

Shall the measure be adopted to tax cannabis businesses operating illegally or allowed in the future by the voters, State or City, at annual rates not to exceed $10.00 per canopy square foot for cultivation (adjustable for inflation), 10% of gross receipts for retail cannabis businesses, and 6% of gross...

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Measure J-18 — Changing the term of the office of Mayor

Failing4,403 votes yes (34.24%)8,456 votes no (65.76%)

Shall an ordinance be adopted that changes the term of office for the mayor from a two-year term to a four-year term?

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Measure F-18 — Imposition of Cannabis Business Tax in City of San Luis Obispo

Passing16,367 votes yes (80%)4,091 votes no (20%)

Shall the measure to maintain and improve essential City services, including without limitation: police/fire services; senior, youth and park services; programs to retain/attract local jobs; addressing homelessness; and other general revenue purposes; by establishing a cannabis business tax up to 10%...

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Measure H-18 — Changing the office of City Clerk from elected to appointed.

Passing5,483 votes yes (54.06%)4,659 votes no (45.94%)

Shall the Office of City Clerk be Appointive?

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Measure I-18 — Imposition of Cannabis Business Tax in the City of Paso Robles

Passing7,429 votes yes (67.22%)3,622 votes no (32.78%)

To improve basic city services, such as police and emergency response, parks and youth/senior services, and street repair, shall the City of Paso Robles adopt an ordinance enacting a tax on cannabis-related activities in the amount of up to $20 per square foot for cultivation/processing; up to 10% of...

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Measure K-18 — Ordinance establishing a one-half of one percent sales tax.

Failing5,200 votes yes (46.72%)5,929 votes no (53.28%)

To upgrade deteriorating streets and sidewalks; and address other general revenue purposes; shall a measure be adopted approving an ordinance establishing a one-half of one percent sales tax providing approximately $4,750,000 annually for 6 years, requiring annual audits, quarterly reports to the public...

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Measure N-18 — If the sales tax increase is approved, how should revenue be used.

Passing7,871 votes yes (71.19%)3,185 votes no (28.81%)

If the voters approve a one-half of one-percent (.5%) limited-term general sales tax increase, shall the additional revenues be used primarily for the purpose of repairing and maintaining the City's streets and sidewalks?

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Measure L-18 — Increase in Transient Occupancy Tax from 10% to 12%

Passing3,746 votes yes (76.54%)1,148 votes no (23.46%)

To provide funding for maintaining fire and police services, repairing streets, maintaining parks, and other general city services; shall the City of Grover Beach adopt an ordinance amending an ordinance increasing the Transient Occupancy Tax rate charged for hotels and other visitor-serving accomodations...

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Measure M-18 — Increase in Business Tax Rate

Passing2,923 votes yes (60.47%)1,911 votes no (39.53%)

To provide funding for maintaining fire and police services, repairing streets, maintaining parks, and other general city services; shall the City of Grover Beach adopt an ordinance amending the annual Business Tax Certificate rate from $55 to a range of $60 to $950 based on building square footage and...

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Measure C-18 — Parcel tax to pay for upgrade of equipment and improve healthcare facilities.

Failing2,151 votes yes (58.63%)1,518 votes no (41.37%)

To provide the best and most efficient emergency medical and paramedic ambulance transport services to the Cambria community by repairing, replacing, or upgrading its ambulance fleet and related equipment, and repairing, upgrading and improving its healthcare facilities, shall Cambria Community Healthcare...

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Measure Y2018

Failing29,245 votes yes (48.2%)31,403 votes no (51.8%)

To upgrade educational facilities/provide 21st Century technology to affordably prepare local students for jobs/university transfer, update classrooms/labs for career training in public safety, design, computer graphics, theatrical arts; acquire, construct, repair classrooms, facilities, sites/equipment,...

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