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The next decision
A two-thirds rule heads to the ballot, and seven tracked laws sit in its path
Would require citizen-initiated local special taxes to pass by two-thirds rather than simple majority, and would bar charter cities from transfer tax rates above the state’s $0.275 per $500. It is one of five measures qualified for November 3. Qualified initiatives may still be withdrawn until June 25.
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The record, revised
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The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act · CA 2014
Partially reversed by Prop 36, which carried all 58 counties.
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Empty Homes Tax · SF 2022
Invalidated at trial. The appeal is pending.
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App-Based Drivers as Contractors · CA 2020
Upheld in full by the state Supreme Court after four years of litigation.
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Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry · CA 2008
Its language finally repealed, sixteen years on, by Prop 3.
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This month in the record
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June 6, 1978. Proposition 13 passes with 64.8 percent of the vote. Forty-eight years later it remains the load-bearing wall of California public finance, and the measure every entry in The Tax Revolt is arguing with.