This is an outline of what the ballot will look like as we vote for our presidential candidate in November.
The summary titles for the 12 propositions are after the fold but those titles do not describe what effect the prop will have if passed or who is financing these propositions.
As articles describing these ballots become available I will update.
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Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act
- "Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century." Authorizes issuance of $9.95 billion of general obligation bonds to create a high-speed passenger train network beginning with a line between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Treatment of Farm Animals. Statute
- "California Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act." Prohibits confinement of farm animals in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, or fully extend their limbs.
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Children’s Hospital Bond Act. Grant Program. Statute
- "Children's Hospital Bond Act." Authorizes issuance of $980 million in bonds to build, renovate and equip children's hospitals.
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Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor’s Pregnancy. Constitutional Amendment
- "Sarah's Law: the Child and Teen Safety and Stop Predators Act." Requires parental notification prior to minors' abortions.
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Nonviolent Offenders. Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation. Statute
- "Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act of 2008." Establishes a California secretary of rehabilitation and parole and other departments, offices and programs intended to provide rehabilitation and alternative sentencing for drug defendants.
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Criminal Penalties and Laws. Public Safety Funding. Statute
- "Safe Neighborhoods Act." Establishes an Office of Public Safety Education and Information and appropriates $12.5 million annually to pay for it and other programs; establishes a California Early Intervention, Rehabilitation and Accountability Commission to evaluate publicly funded anti-crime programs and sets standards for such programs; appropriates $92.5 million annually to help counties house juvenile offenders; appropriates $50 million for a Juvenile Probation Facility and Supervision Fund; broadens the admissibility of hearsay evidence; establishes a Crimestopper Reward Reimbursement Fund and appropriates $10 million annually to fund it; stiffens penalties for threatening judges and witnesses and for various gang-related crimes; broadens civil actions against gangs; and establishes other programs and laws intended to protect crime victims and more effectively deter crime and punish criminals.
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Renewable Energy. Statute
- "The Solar and Clean Energy Act of 2008." Establishes mandatory renewable energy threshold for the L.A. Department of Water and Power and other government utilities.
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Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry.
- " Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry Initiative Constitutional Amendment" Outlaws same-sex marriage by adding the following words to the state Constitution: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
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Criminal Justice System. Victims’ Rights. Parole. Constitutional Amendment and Statute.
- "Marsy's Law: the Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008." Broadens role of victims and victims' families in parole hearings and restricts frequency of hearing.
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Bonds. Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Statute
- "The California Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act." Authorizes $5 billion in bonds ($9.8 billion with interest), much of which would provide rebates to buyers of hybrids and other alternative-fuel cars and fund research.
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Redistricting. Constitutional Amendment and Statute
- "Voters FIRST Act." Redistricting Constitutional Amendment and Statute. Would transfer the power to re-draw Assembly, state Senate, and Board of Equalization district lines, once every 10 years after census data come in, from the political parties and elected officials to a 14-member citizens' commission.
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12. Veterans' Bond Act of 2008. SB 1572 (Chapter 122, Statutes of 2008 [Wyland])
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