SELECTED STATE AND LOCAL BALLOT MEASURES
Initiatives, referenda, amendments, and propositions are on the ballot in several states and localities.
Disclaimer: The selected measures listed are not final and are subject to changes, additions, and eliminations.
For additional information, please contact Meghan Holihan
| State | Election Date | Title | Summary | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would require the implementation date for any bill related to conducting general elections enacted in a calendar year in which a general election is to be held be at least six months before the general election. | TBD |
| Alabama | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow the legislature to deny bail for certain offenses. | TBD |
| Alabama | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would ratify the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, an updated and recompiled state constitution. | TBD |
| Alabama | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would authorize the Code Commissioner to incorporate voter-approved constitutional amendments at the May 24 and November 8 elections into the new state constitution if the ratification question is also approved. | TBD |
| Alabama | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow the state or local government to grant federal award or other funds designated for broadband infrastructure by state law to public or private entities to expand or provide for broadband internet infrastructure. | TBD |
| Arizona | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This referendum would reduce the state income tax from four brakets to two and reduce the tax bracket to a flat rate of 2.5% when state revenue exceeds $12.976 billion. | TBD |
| Arizona | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This statute would make changes to Arizona's voter identification and mail-in ballot policies, including requiring dates of birth and voter identification numbers for mail-in ballots and eliminating the existing two-document alternative to photo ID for in-person voting. | TBD |
| Arizona | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow the legislature to amend or repeal voter-approved ballot initiatives if any portion has been declared unconstitutional or illegal by the Arizona Supreme Court or United States Supreme Court. | TBD |
| Arizona | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would require that citizen initiated ballot measures embrace a single subject. | TBD |
| Arkansas | 11/8/2022 | Arkansas Religious Freedom Amendment | This constitutional amendment would create the Arkansas Religious Freedom Amendment. This would limit the government's ability to infringe upon a person's religious believes except for outlined rare circumstances. | TBD |
| Arkansas | 11/8/2022 | Constitutional Amendment and Ballot Initiative Reform | This constitutional amendment would require a 60% supermajority vote of approval for initiated constitutional amendments and initiated state statute adoption. | TBD |
| Arkansas | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow the state legislature to call itself into extraordinary sessions upon a joint proclamation from the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore or upon a proclamation signed by two-thirds of the members in each chamber. | TBD |
| California | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This referendum challenges a 2020 law prohibiting retail sale of certain flavored tobacco products. | TBD |
| California | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would legalize sports betting at American Indian gaming casinos and licensed racetracks. Tax profits derived from sports betting at racetracks would be 10%. Roulette and dice games such as craps at tribal casinos would also be legalized. | TBD |
| California | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This initiative would increase California's $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits based on changes in inflation since 1975. This would also allow judges and juries to award damages above the cap for catastrophic injuries. | TBD |
| California | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This statute would require the California Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery (CalRecycle), in consultation with other agencies, to adopt regulations that reduce the use of single-use plastic packaging and foodware. | TBD |
| Colorado | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This initiative would reduce the state income tax rate from 4.55% to 4.40% for tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2022. | TBD |
| Connecticut | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow the legislature to provide for early voting. | TBD |
| Florida | 11/8/2022 | Abolishing the Constitution Revision Commission | This constitutional amendment would abolish the Constitution Revision Commission. This commission meets at 20-year intervals as a method of submitting proposed amendments or revisions to the State Constitution to electors of the state for approval. | TBD |
| Florida | 11/8/2022 | Limitation on Assessment of Real Property Used for Residential Purposes | This constitutional amendment would authorize the legislature to pass laws prohibiting flood resistance improvements made to a home from being taken into consideration when determining a property's assessed value for property tax purposes. | TBD |
| Florida | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would authorize the legislature to provide an additional homestead property tax exemption on $50,000 of assessed value on property owned by certain public service workers including teachers, law enforcement officers, emergency medical personnel, active duty members of the military and Florida National Guard, and child welfare service employees. | TBD |
| Georgia | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would authorize local governments to grant temporary tax relief. | TBD |
| Georgia | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This measure would expand certain property tax exemptions for agricultural equipment and farm products to allow family-owned dairy and egg production farms. | TBD |
| Georgia | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would suspend compensation for the outlined public officials while the individual is suspended from office for being indicted for a felony. | TBD |
| Idaho | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to convene a special session of the legislature upon receiving a joint written request from 60% of the members of each chamber to consider topics specified in the request. | TBD |
| Illinois | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would establish a state constitutional right for employees to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their choosing to negotiate "wages, hours, and working conditions and to protect their economic welfare and safety at work." | TBD |
| Kansas | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would authorize the legislature to revoke or suspend an executive agency's rules and regulations by a simple majority vote | TBD |
| Kansas | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would require the election of county sheriffs in counties that had not abolished the office as of January 2022 and provide that sheriffs may be recalled from office or removed by a writ of quo warranto initiated by the attorney general. | TBD |
| Kentucky | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would remove legislative session end dates and limit odd-year sessions to 30 legislative days and even-year sessions are limited to 60 legislative days. This would also allow the legislature to change session end date with a three-fifths vote in each chamber, and provide a special legislative session for up to 12 days to be called by the House speaker and Senate president. | TBD |
| Louisiana | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow ad valorem tax rates to be increased by a two-thirds vote of a taxing authority up to the maximum rate allowed by the constitution until the authorized rate expires. | TBD |
| Louisiana | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow local governments to waive water charges for customers if water is lost due to water delivery infrastructure damages that were not caused by the customer's actions or failure to act. | TBD |
| Louisiana | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would limit the increase of residential property in Orleans Parish to 10% of the property's assessed value from the prior year beginning in 2023. | TBD |
| Louisiana | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment increases the portion of certain state funds that can be invested in stocks from 35% to 65%. | TBD |
| Louisiana | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would allow classified service and civil service employees to publicly support the election campaigns of individuals in their immediate family when off duty. | TBD |
| Maryland | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would rename the Maryland Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court of Maryland and the Maryland Court of Special Appeals to the Appellate Court of Maryland. | TBD |
| Maryland | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would increase from $15,000 to $25,000 the minimum amount in controversy that guarantees a right to a jury trial in civil cases. | TBD |
| Maryland | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would require candidates for the state legislature maintain a primary place of abode in the district they wish to represent for at least six months prior to the date of their election or for as long as the district has been in existence and changing all gendered language in the amended sections to gender-neutral language. | TBD |
| Maryland | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would legalize marijuana use for adults 21 years of age or older beginning in July 2023 and directing the Maryland State Legislature to pass laws for the use, distribution, regulation, and taxation of marijuana. | TBD |
| Massachusetts | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment creates an additional income tax of 4% for income over $1 million, in addition to the existing 5% flat-rate income tax, and would dedicate revenue to education and transportation purposes. | TBD |
| Missouri | 11/8/2022 | Amendment 1 | This constitutional amendment allows the state treasurer to invest state funds in highly rated municipal securities and to authorize the state legislature to pass laws allowing the treasurer to invest in "other reasonable and prudent financial instruments and securities." | TBD |
| Montana | 11/8/2022 | C-48 | This constitutional amendment would require a search warrant to access electronic data or electronic communications. | TBD |
| New Mexico | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would permit the legislature to appropriate state funds or resources to provide for infrastructure for internet, energy, water, wastewater, or other similar services for primarily residential purposes. | TBD |
| Oregon | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would deem clinically appropriate and affordable health care a fundamental right. | TBD |
| Oregon | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would repeal language in the state constitution allowing slavery or involuntary servitude as criminal punishments. | TBD |
| South Dakota | 6/7/2022 | Constitutional Amendment C | This constitutional amendment would require a three-fifths vote of approval for any future ballot measure that imposes or increases taxes or fees or obligates the state to appropriate funds of $10 million or more in any of the first five fiscal years after enactment. | Failed |
| South Dakota | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would expand Medicaid eligibility to persons over age 18 and under 65 whose income is at or below 133% of the federal poverty level, plus 5% of the federal poverty level for the applicable family size as provided in federal law. | TBD |
| Tennessee | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would prohibit any person, corporation, association, or this state or its political subdivisions to deny or attempt to deny employment to any person by reason of the person's membership in, affiliation with, resignation from, or refusal to join or affiliate with any labor union or employee organization. | TBD |
| Tennessee | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would clarify that while slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited in the state, duly convicted inmates will not be prohibited from working. | TBD |
| Tennessee | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment establishes the line of succession for Acting Governor. | TBD |
| Texas | 5/7/2022 | Proposition 1 | This constitutional amendment would permit the legislature to reduce the property tax limit for school maintenance and operations taxes imposed on the homesteads of elderly or disabled residents to reflect any tax rate reduction enacted by law from the preceding tax year. | Passed |
| Texas | 5/7/2022 | Proposition 2 | This constitutional amendment would increase the homestead exemption for school district property taxes from $25,000 to $40,000. | Passed |
| Utah | 11/8/2022 | TBD | This constitutional amendment would increase the limit on appropriations the state legislature can make in an emergency session called by legislative leaders from 1% of the previous fiscal year's budget to 5%, exempt emergency federal funding from the limit, and exempt any appropriations that decrease total spending for the year from the limit. | TBD |
| Vermont | 11/8/2022 | Proposal 2 | This constitutional amendment would clarify that slavery and indentured servitude in any form are prohibited in the state. | TBD |
| West Virginia | 11/8/2022 | Education Accountability Amendment | This constitutional amendment would clarify that the policy-making and rule-making authority of the State Board of Education is subject to legislative review, approval, amendment, or rejection. | TBD |
| West Virginia | 11/8/2022 | Property Tax Modernization Amendment | This constitutional amendment would authorize the legislature to exempt tangible machinery and equipment personal property and tangible inventory personal property directly used in business activity from ad valorem property taxation by general law. | TBD |
| Wyoming | 11/8/2022 | Constitutional Amendment A | This constitutional amendment would allow the funds of counties, cities and other political subdivisions to be invested in equities to the extent and in the manner the legislature may allow by law. Any law authorizing the investment of specified political subdivision funds in equities would require a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature. | TBD |