What To Expect on California’s November 2024 Ballot

Although this is a big Presidential Election year, there are still many other important things on the California ballot that voters will need to be aware of. What Will Be On the Ballot? Statewide minimum wage of $18 Proposition 47 Reform: increased criminal penalties for drug abuse, retail theft, and other related crimes Lower tax […]

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Although this is a big Presidential Election year, there are still many other important things on the California ballot that voters will need to be aware of.

What Will Be On the Ballot?

  • Statewide minimum wage of $18
  • Proposition 47 Reform: increased criminal penalties for drug abuse, retail theft, and other related crimes
  • Lower tax threshold for housing
  • MCO Tax Authorization
  • Local rent control
  • Healthcare spending: requires healthcare providers to spend 98% of revenues from federal discount prescriptions on direct patient care
  • Removal of involuntary servitude as a crime punishment
  • Repeal of Proposition 8
  • $10 billion Education Bond for modern construction of public schools and community colleges
  • Initiative Voting Requirements
  • $10 billion Climate Bond

What is No Longer On the Ballot?

  • PAGA: reform was withdrawn
  • Taxpayer Protection Act: ruled unconstitutional by California Supreme Court
  • California Children’s Services Program: changes to CCS eligibility requirements to cover life-saving specialty drugs was covered by legislative compromise
  • Required personal finance course for high school graduates
  • Oil & Gas Well Referendum: prohibition of new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, and hospitals was dropped

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