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This November, voters will decide the fate of ten propositions dealing with:

• Bonds for the construction and modernization of public education facilities.
• Same-sex marriage.
• Bonds for environmental, energy, and water projects.
• Voter approval requirements for local bond measures that fund housing projects and public infrastructure.
• Involuntary servitude for incarcerated persons as punishment for a crime.
• An increase to California’s minimum wage.
• The right of cities and counties to maintain, enact, or expand residential rent-control ordinances.
• Required spending by certain health care providers of revenues from federal discount prescription drug program.
• A permanent tax on managed care organizations, requiring revenues to be used only for specified Medi-Cal services.
• Allowance of felony charges and increased sentences for certain drug and theft crimes.

Several significant ballot measures were also withdrawn by their proponents as a result of deals made with the Legislature and one was removed from the ballot by the California Supreme Court.

Join a law professor with expertise in politics, government, and the initiative process and an attorney who specializes in ballot measure campaigns for an in-depth analysis of the impact of changes to the law that would be made by the propositions; legal and political issues surrounding the ballot measures; California’s initiative and referendum process; the interplay with the Legislature; supporters and opponents; major sources of funding; and the strategies behind ballot measure campaigns.

Speakers:

Mary-Beth Moylan
Associate Professor of Law
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

Ned Wigglesworth
CEO, Spectrum Campaigns

Moderator:

Saul Bercovitch
Chief Governmental Affairs Officer, California Lawyers Association

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