SELECTED STATE BALLOT MEASURES OVERVIEW AND RESULTS
Initiatives, referenda, amendments, and propositions are on the ballot throughout the year in multiple states.
| State | Date | Issue(s) | Title | Summary | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 3/5/2024 | Government Procedure | Amendment 1 | This amendment would remove the requirement of a 3/5ths vote of the Legislature to pass a resolution, local legislation, or a local constitutional amendment. | Failed |
| Alaska | 11/5/2024 | Minimum Wage | Minimum Labor Standards Initative | This measure would increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by July 1, 2027; provide the ability to accrue up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year if an employer has 15 employees or more; provide the ability to accrue up to 40 hours of paid sick leave if an employers has under 15 employees; and prohibit employers taking adverse action against employees who refuse to attend employer-sponsored meetings regarding religious or political matters. | |
| Alaska | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Alaskans for Honest Elections | This measure would eliminate the open top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting general elections in Alaska, and establish a party primary system. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | State Funds | Criminal Conviction Fee for First Responder Death Financial Benefit Amendment | This measure would establish a $20 fee on every conviction for a criminal offense, which would go to pay a benefit of $250,000 to the family of a first responder who is killed in the line of duty. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Executive Branch Power | Emergency Declarations Amendment | This amendment provides for the legislature to terminate a state of emergency or alter the emergency powers of the governor during the state of emergency, and provide for any emergency powers granted to the governor to automatically terminate 30 days after the state of emergency is proclaimed, unless the state legislature extends the emergency powers granted to the governor, and except in cases for a state of war emergency or an emergency arising from a flood or a fire. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Require Partisan Primaries Amendment | This amendment would require partisan primary elections for partisan offices. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Signature Distribution Requirement for Initiatives Amendment | This amendment would create a signature distribution requirement for citizen-initiated ballot measures based on state legislative districts. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Immigration | Immigration and Border Law Enforcement Measure | This measure would make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state at any location other than the port of entry; allow state and local police to arrest noncitizens who cross the border unlawfully; allow state judges to order deportations; require the use of the E-Verify program in order to determine the immigration status of individuals before the enrollment in a financial aid or public welfare program; make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for individuals who submit false information or documents to an employer to evade detection of employment eligibility under the E-verify program, make it Class 6 felony for a second offense of the preceding offense, and make the sale of fentanyl a Class 2 felony if the person knowingly sells fentanyl and it results in the death of another person. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Criminal Law | Life Imprisonment for Sex Trafficking of a Child Measure | This measure would guarantee a sentence of life imprisonment without parole if an individual is found guilty of sex trafficking of a child. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Property Tax Refund for Non-Enforcement of Public Nuisance Laws Measure | This measure would allow property owners to apply for a property tax refund if the city or locality in which the property is located does not enforce laws or ordinances regarding illegal camping, loitering, obstructing public thoroughfares, panhandling, public urination or defecation, public consumption of alcoholic beverages, and possession or use of illegal substances. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Legal Challenges to Constitutionality of Initiatives Amendment | This amendment would provide for challenges to an initiative measure or constitutional amendment after the filing of the measure with the secretary of state. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Judiciary | End Term Limits and Retention Elections for Supreme Court Justices and Superior Court Judges Amendment | This amendement would end term limits for state supreme court justices and superior court judges, replacing them with terms of good behavior. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | Wages | Wages for Tipped Workers Amendment | This amendment would allow for tipped workers to be paid 25% less per hour than the minimum wage if any tips received by the employee were not less than the minimum wage plus $2 for all hours worked. | |
| Arizona | 11/5/2024 | State Funds | Legislative Ratification of State Agency Rules that Increase Regulatory Costs Measure | This measure would prohibit a proposed rule from becoming effective if that rule is estimated to increase regulatory costs by more than $500,000 within five years after implementation, until the legislature enacts legislation ratifying the proposed rule. | |
| Arkansas | 11/5/2024 | Education | State Funds | Lottery Proceed Funding for Vocational-Technical School Scholarships and Grants Amendment | This amendment would allow proceeds from the state lottery to fund scholarships and grants for vocational-technical schools and technical institutes. | |
| California | 3/5/2024 | Mental Health | Proposition 1 | This measure would permit the state to sell $6.4 billion in new bonds to build mental health care and drug or alcohol treatment centers. It would give $2 billion to the state program that gives money to local governments to turn hotels, motels, and other buildings into housing and construct new housing. | Passed |
| California | 11/5/2024 | Minimum Wage | $18 Minimum Wage Initiative | This amendment would increase minimum wage to $18 an hour. | |
| California | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Housing | Lower Supermajority Requirement to 55% for Local Special Taxes to Fund Housing and Public Infrastructure Amendment | This amendment would lower the vote threshold from 66.67% to 55% for local special taxes and bond measures to fund housing projects and public infrastructure. | |
| California | 11/5/2024 | Housing | Prohibit State Limitations on Local Rent Control Initiative | This measure would repeal the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which prohibits rent control on single family homes, on condominiums, and on newly built rental units. | |
| California | 11/5/2024 | Same Sex Marriage | Right to Marry and Repeal Proposition 8 Amendment | This measure would repeal Proposition 8 and establish a right to marry. | |
| California | 11/5/2024 | Voting Policy | Vote Requirements for Initiatives Requiring Supermajority Votes Amendment | This amendment would require initiatives that change vote thresholds to supermajority votes to pass by that same vote requirement that is being proposed within the initiative. | |
| California | 11/5/2024 | Criminal Law | Drug and Theft Crime Penalties and Treatment-Mandated Felonies Initiative | This measure would make changes to Proposition 47 approved in 2014, including: classifying certain drug offenses as treatment-mandated felonies; increasing penalties for certain drug crimes by increasing sentence lengths and level of crime; requiring courts to warn individuals convicted of distributing illegal drugs of their potential future criminal liability if they distribute deadly drugs like fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine; and increasing sentences for theft based on the value of the property stolen. | |
| California | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Healthcare | Managed Care Organization Tax Authorization Initiative | This measure would permanently authorize a tax on managed care organizations based on monthly enrollees, which is set to expire in 2026, and requiring revenues to be used for increased Medi-Cal programs. | |
| California | 11/5/2024 | Healthcare | Require Certain Participants in Medi-Cal Rx Program to Spend 98% of Revenues on Patient Care Initiative | This measure would require health care providers that spent over $100 million in any 10-year period on anything other than direct patient care and operated multifamily housing with over 500 high-severity health and safety violations to spend 98% of revenues from the federal discount prescription drug program on direct patient care; penalize violators of the initiative with loss of tax-exempt status and licenses to operate health insurance plans, pharmacies, and clinics; and permanently authorize Medi-Cal RX in state law. | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | Voting Policy | Taxes | Property Tax Revenue Cap Initiative | This measure would limit property tax revenue to 4% growth above the total statewide property tax revenue collected in the previous year and require statewide voter approval if property tax revenue is projected to increase by more than 4%. | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | Veterans | Taxes | Property Tax Exemption for Veterans with Individual Unemployability Status Amendment | This amendment would expand the property tax exemption for veterans with a disability to veterans with individual unemployability status. | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | State Judiciary | Independent Judicial Discipline Adjudicative Board Amendment | This amendment would create an independent judicial discipline adjudicative board and create rules for the judicial discipline process. | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | Criminal Law | Remove Right to Bail in First Degree Murder Cases Amendment | This amendment would remove the right to bail in cases of first-degree murder when the proof is evident or the presumption is great. | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Initiative and Referendum Filing and Judicial Retention Filing Deadlines Amendment | This amendment would change the signature deadline for initiative and referendum signature gathering, thereby shorting the collection period by one week, as well as moving the deadline for justices and judges to file declarations of intent to run for another term by one week, in order to allow one extra week for the secretary of state to certify ballot order and content and election officials' deadline to transmit ballots. | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | Same Sex Marriage | Remove Constitutional Same-Sex Marriage Ban Amendment | This amendment would remove the provision of the state constitution that says that "only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state." | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | State Funds | Sports Betting | Retain Sports Betting Tax Revenue for Water Projects Measure | This measure would allow the state to retain tax revenue collected above $29 million annually from the tax on sports betting proceeds authorized by voters in 2019. | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | Reproductive Healthcare | Right to Abortion and Health Insurance Coverage Initiative | This measure would support creation of a right to abortion in the state constitution and allowance of the use of public funds for abortion. | |
| Colorado | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Firearms | Sales Tax on Firearms Dealers, Manufacturers, and Ammunition Vendors Measure | This measure would levy a 6.5% excise tax on the manufacture and sale of firearms and ammunition to be imposed on firearms dealers, manufacturers, and ammunition vendors and appropriating the revenue to the Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Cash Fund to be used to fund crime victim services programs, education programs, and mental and behavioral health programs for children and veterans. | |
| Connecticut | 11/5/2024 | Voting Policy | No-Excuse Absentee Voting Amendment | This amendment would authorize the state legislature to provide by law for no-excuse absentee voting. | |
| Florida | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Education | Amendment 1 | This amendment would change school board elections from nonpartisan to partisan beginning in the November 2026 general election and for primary elections nominating party candidates for the 2026 election. | |
| Florida | 11/5/2024 | Recreation | Amendment 2 | This amendment establishes a state constitutional right to hunt and fish. | |
| Florida | 11/5/2024 | Marijuana | Amendment 3 | This amendment would legalize marijuana for adults 21 years old and older. | |
| Florida | 11/5/2024 | Reproductive Health | Amendment 4 | This amendment would provide a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability, which is estimated to be around 24 weeks, or when necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's healthcare provider. | |
| Florida | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Annual Adjustment to Homestead Exemption Value Amendment | This amendment would create an annual inflation adjustment to the amount of assessed value that is exempt from property taxation for homestead property. | |
| Florida | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Repeal of Public Financing for Statewide Campaigns Amendment | This amendment would repeal the state constitutional provision that provides for public financing of campaigns for those running for elective statewide office who agree to campaign spending limits. | |
| Georgia | 11/5/2024 | State Judiciary | Creation of Tax Court Amendment | This amendment would create the Georgia Tax Court with statewide jurisdiction. The court would have concurrent jurisdiction with the state business court and superior courts in equity cases. | |
| Georgia | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Local Option Homestead Property Tax Exemption Amendment | This amendment would provide a local option homestead property tax exemption and allow a county, municipality, or school system to opt out of the exemption. | |
| Georgia | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Personal Property Tax Exemption Increase Measure | This measure would increase the personal property tax exemption from $7,500 to $20,000. | |
| Hawaii | 11/5/2024 | Government Procedure | Judicial Appointments and Confirmations Amendment | This amendment would change the process for appointing and confirming district court judges to be the same as that used for supreme court justices and other higher court judges. | |
| Hawaii | 11/5/2024 | Same Sex Marriage | Remove Legislature Authority to Limit Marriage to Opposite-Sex Couples Amendment | This amendment would remove a provision of the constitution that states that "the legislature shall have the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples." | |
| Idaho | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment | This amendment would stipulate that only a citizen of the United States can vote in the state. | |
| Idaho | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative | This measure would replace partisan primaries with open top-four primaries for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, state legislature, elective state office, and county elective office; and establish ranked-choice voting for general elections, in which voters would rank the candidates. | |
| Illinois | 11/5/2024 | Reproductive Health | Assisted Reproductive Healthcare Advisory Question | This question would advise state officials on whether to require medically assisted reproductive treatments, including in vitro fertilization, to be covered by any health insurance plan in Illinois that provides full coverage to pregnancy benefits. | |
| Illinois | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Income Tax Advisory Question | This question would advise state officials on whether to amend the state constitution to create an additional 3% tax on income greater than $1 million for the purpose of dedicating funds to property tax relief. | |
| Illinois | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Penalties for Violation of Duties of Election Worker Advisory Question | This question would advise state officials on whether to establish civil penalties if a candidate interferes or attempts to interfere with an election worker's official duties. | |
| Indiana | 11/5/2024 | Government Procedure | Remove Superintendent of Public Instruction from Gubernatorial Line of Succession Amendment | This amendment would remove the superintendent of public instruction from the gubernatorial line of succession. | |
| Iowa | 11/5/2024 | Voting Policy | Require Citizenship to Vote in State Elections and Allow 17-Year-Olds to Vote in Primaries Amendment | This amendment would state that only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote; and then provides that 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the general election may vote in primary elections. | |
| Iowa | 11/5/2024 | Government Procedure | Gubernatorial Succession Amendment | This amendment would provide that the lieutenant governor assumes the office of governor for the remainder of the term— creating a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor— if the governor dies, resigns, or is removed from office. | |
| Kentucky | 11/5/2024 | Education | State Funds | Allow State Funding for Non-Public Education Amendment | This amendment would enable the General Assembly to provide state funding for the education costs of K-12 students who are not attending public schools. | |
| Kentucky | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment | This amendment would require U.S. citizenship to be able to vote in the state. | |
| Louisiana | 11/5/2024 | Environment | State Funds | Outer Continental Shelf Revenues for Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund Amendment | This amendment would require federal revenue received from alternative and renewable energy production in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to be deposited in the Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund. | |
| Louisiana | 12/7/2024 | Government Procedure | State Funds | 48-Hour Waiting Period for Concurrence on Appropriation Bills Amendment | This amendment would prohibit the consideration of a conference committee report or senate amendments on an appropriations bill until 48 hours after the bill and a summary of the proposed changes is distributed to all legislators. | |
| Louisiana | 12/7/2024 | Government Procedure | Allow Legislature to Extend Regular Sessions to Pass Appropriations Bills Amendment | This amendment would allow the state legislature to extend its regular session by two-day increments, up to a maximum of six days, in order to pass a bill appropriating money. | |
| Louisiana | 12/7/2024 | Government Operations | Judiciary Commission Investigation of Sitting Judges Amendment | The amendment would increase the membership of the judiciary commission by five members; add "malfeasance while in office" to the list of specific actions that the state supreme court can pursue disciplinary action against a judge for; and provide that the judiciary commission is responsible for investigating and recommending disciplinary actions. | |
| Louisiana | 12/7/2024 | Taxes | Property Tax Sales Administration Amendment | This amendment would remove certain provisions in the state constitution related to the administration of property tax sales and instead authorize the state legislature to provide for property tax sales in state law; provide that tax payment postponements can only be granted during emergencies declared by the governor under the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act; and allow the state legislature to give tax collectors the authority to waive penalties for good cause. | |
| Maine | 11/5/2024 | State Flag | State Flag Referendum | This measure would replace the existing state flag with a flag consisting of a pine tree and the North Star on a buff (light tan) background, often called the Pine Tree Flag. | |
| Maine | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Limit Contributions to Super PACs Initiative | This measure would limit the amount of campaign contributions to $5,000 from individuals and entities to political action committees that make independent expenditures. | |
| Maryland | 11/5/2024 | Reproductive Health | Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment | This amendment would establish a right to reproductive freedom in the state constitution. | |
| Minnesota | 11/5/2024 | Environment | State Funds | Environment and Natural Resources Fund Amendment | This amendment would extend the dedication of lottery-derived revenue to Environment and Natural Resources Fund for 25 years. | |
| Missouri | 8/6/2024 | Taxes | Property Tax Exemption for Childcare Establishments Amendment | This amendment would exempt childcare facilities from property taxation, as well as other properties used primarily for the care of children outside of their homes. | |
| Missouri | 8/6/2024 | Law Enforcement | State Funds | Increase Funding without State Reimbursement for a Police Force Established by State Board Measure | This measure would increase minimum required funding for a police force established by a state board of police commissioners before 2027. This would specifically increase the minimum funding to the police force of Kansas City. | |
| Missouri | 11/5/2024 | Government Operations | Levying of Fees to Support Salaries of Law Enforcement Personnel Amendment | This amendment would amend the state constitution to define the administration of justice to include the levying of costs and fees to support the salaries and benefits of sheriffs, former sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, former prosecuting attorneys, circuit attorneys, and former circuit attorneys. | |
| Missouri | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Require Citizenship to Vote and Prohibit Ranked-Choice Voting Amendment | This amendment would amend the state constitution to provide that only U.S. citizens 18 years or older can vote, thereby prohibiting the state or local governments from allowing non-citizen voting; establish that each voter has one vote per issue or open seat; prohibit ranked-choice voting; and require plurality primary elections, where one winner advances to the general election. | |
| Nevada | 11/5/2024 | Education | Question 1 | This amendment would remove the Board of Regents from the Nevada Constitution and would authorize the state legislature to review and change the governing organization of state universities. | |
| Nevada | 11/5/2024 | Disability | Question 2 | This amendment would revise language in the Nevada Constitution which refers to public entities for individuals with mental illness, blindness, or deafness. | |
| Nevada | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Question 3 | This initiative would establish open top-five primaries and ranked-choice voting for general elections. | |
| Nevada | 11/5/2024 | Slavery Abolition | Question 4 | This amendment would remove language from the Nevada Constitution that allows the use of slavery or involuntary servitude as criminal punishments. | |
| Nevada | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Question 5 | This measure would provide a sales tax exemption for both child and adult diapers, including disposable diapers. | |
| Nevada | 11/5/2024 | Reproductive Health | Right to Abortion Initiative | This amendment would provide for a state constitutional right to an abortion, providing for the state to regulate abortion after fetal viability. | |
| New Hampshire | 11/5/2024 | Government Operations | Increase Mandatory Judicial Retirement Age Amendment | This amendment would increase the mandatory retirement age to 70 for county sheriffs and the mandatory judicial retirement age to 75. | |
| New Mexico | 11/5/2024 | Veterans | Disabled Veteran Property Tax Exemption Amendment | This measure would amend the New Mexico Constitution to extend the disabled veteran property tax exemption to all disabled veterans (or their widows or widowers) in proportion to their federal disability rating. | |
| New Mexico | 11/5/2024 | Veterans | Increase Veteran Property Tax Exemption Amendment | This measure would amend the New Mexico Constitution to increase the property tax exemption for honorably discharged members of the armed forces or their widows or widowers from $4,000 to $10,000. | |
| New Mexico | 11/5/2024 | Government Operations | County Officer Salaries Amendment | This amendment would authorize the board of county commissioners to set salaries for county officers and clarify that fees collected by the county are to be deposited into the county treasury. | |
| New Mexico | 11/5/2024 | Government Operations | Judicial Nominating Commission Amendment | This amendment would authorize a designee of the dean of the University of New Mexico Law School to serve as chair of the appellate judges nomination commission and require the designee to be an associate dean, a faculty member, a retired faculty member, or a former dean of the law school. | |
| New York | 11/5/2024 | Discrimination | Equal Protection of Law Amendment | This measure would amend the Equal Protection Clause in the New York Constitution to prohibit the denial of rights to an individual based on their "ethnicity, national origin, age, [and] disability," as well as their "sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy." | |
| North Carolina | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment | This amendment would prohibit local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote by providing in the state constitution that only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote. | |
| North Dakota | 6/11/2024 | Elections | Congressional Age Limits | This amendment would prevent an individual from being elected or appointed to serve in the United States Senate or United States House of Representatives if the individual would become 81 years old by December 31 of the year preceding the end of their term. | Passed |
| North Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Disability | Constitutional Measure 1 | This amendment would update the language used in the state constitution to describe certain state institutions. | |
| North Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Government Procedure | Constitutional Measure 2 | This measure would establish a single-subject rule for initiatives; increase the signature requirement for constitutional initiatives; and require constitutional initiatives to be approved at two elections. | |
| North Dakota | 11/5/2024 | State Funds | Constitutional Measure 3 | This amendment would decrease the amount of money that can be expended from the state legacy fund during a two-year period from 15% to 5% of the principal of the fund. | |
| Oklahoma | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment | This amendment would amend the state constitution to provide that only U.S. citizens who are 18 years old or older can vote in elections. | |
| Oklahoma | 11/5/2024 | Government Procedure | Public Infrastructure Districts Amendment | This amendemnt would allow municipalities to create public infrastructure districts when all property owners within the proposed district sign a petition and allowing public infrastructure districts to issue bonds for public improvements if approved by voters within the district. | |
| Oregon | 11/5/2024 | Government Procedure | Impeachment of Elected State Executives Amendment | This amendment would allow the Oregon State Legislature to impeach and remove elected state executives, including the governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, and commissioner of labor and industries. | |
| Oregon | 11/5/2024 | Government Operations | Independent Public Service Compensation Commission Amendment | This amendment would establish the Independent Public Service Compensation Commission to determine certain public officials' salaries. | |
| Oregon | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Ranked-Choice Voting for Federal and State Elections Measure | This measure would establish ranked-choice voting for federal and state executive offices beginning in 2028. | |
| Rhode Island | 11/5/2024 | Government Procedure | Constitutional Convention Question | This measure would convene a state constitutional convention. | |
| South Carolina | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment | This amendment would amend the state constitution to add language that only U.S. citizens who are 18 years old or older can vote in elections. | |
| South Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Inclusivity | Gender-Neutral Constitutional Language Amendment | This amendment would amend the text of the state constitution to change male pronouns to gender-neutral terms or titles. | |
| South Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Healthcare | Medicaid Work Requirement Amendment | This amendment would amend the state constitution to provide that the state may impose a work requirement on eligible individuals who are not diagnosed as being mentally or physically disabled in order to receive Medicaid under the Medicaid expansion that took effect on July 1, 2023. | |
| South Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Reproductive Health | Amendment G | This amendment would establish a constitutional right to an abortion within the state and would provide a legal framework for the regulation of abortion. | |
| South Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Top-Two Primary Elections Initiative | This measure would replace partisan primaries with top-two primaries for state executive, state legislative, congressional, and county offices. | |
| South Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Prohibit Food and Grocery Taxes Initiative | This measure would prohibit state sales taxes on anything sold for human consumption, excluding alcoholic beverages or prepared food. | |
| South Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Marijuana | Marijuana Legalization Initiative | This measure would legalize the recreational use, possession, and distribution of marijuana. | |
| South Dakota | 11/5/2024 | Environment | Regulation of Carbon Dioxide Pipelines Referendum | This veto referendum would repeal Senate Bill 201, which provides statutory requirements for regulating carbon dioxide pipelines and other transmission facilities, and allows counties to impose a surcharge on certain pipeline companies. | |
| Utah | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Elections of County Sheriffs Amendment | This amendment would establish in the state constitution that every county shall elect a sheriff to serve for four-year terms. | |
| Utah | 11/5/2024 | State Funds, Education | State School Fund Distribution Cap Increase Amendment | This amendment would increase the limit on annual distributions from the State School Fund for public education from 4% to 5% of the fund. | |
| Utah | 11/5/2024 | Education | Taxes | Constitutional Requirements for Education Funding Amendment | This amendment would require taxes on intangible property and income to be used to maintain a public education funding framework, provided through state law, that uses a portion of revenue growth for Uniform School Fund expenditures for changes in student enrollment and long-term inflation and provides a budgetary stabilization account. This amendment would also allow the state to use tax revenue for other purposes after education funding requirements are met. | |
| Virginia | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Property Tax Exemption for Veterans and Surviving Spouses Amendment | This amendment would amend language in the Virginia Constitution regarding property tax exemptions for veterans and surviving spouses to say died in the line of duty rather than killed in action. | |
| Washington | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Initiative No. 2109 | This measure would repeal the capital gains excise tax imposed on long-term capital assets by individuals with capital gains over $250,000. | |
| Washington | 11/5/2024 | Environment | Taxes | Initative No. 2117 | This measure would prohibit any state agencies from implementing a cap and trade or cap and tax program and repeal the 2021 Washington Climate Commitment Act (CCA), a state law that created a cap and invest program designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 95% by 2050. | |
| Washington | 11/5/2024 | Healthcare | Initative No. 2124 | This measure would allow employees and self-employed individuals to opt out of the state-run long-term-care (LTC) insurance program. It also requires employees and self-employed individuals to elect to keep coverage. Rules must be promulgated to implement this change. | |
| West Virginia | 11/5/2024 | Healthcare | Amendment 1 | This amendment would prohibit people, physicians, and health care providers from participating in "the practice of medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of a person." The State is exempted if providing capital punishment. | |
| Wisconsin | 4/2/2024 | Elections | Question 1 | This amendment would prohibit any level of government in the state from applying or accepting non-governmental funds or equipment for election administration. | Passed |
| Wisconsin | 4/2/2024 | Elections | Question 2 | This amendment prohibits any individual other than an election official designated by law from performing any task in the conduct of any primary, election, or referendum. | Passed |
| Wisconsin | 8/13/2024 | Government Operations | State Funds | Delegation of Appropriation Power | This amendment would prohibit the legislature from delegating its power to appropriate money. | |
| Wisconsin | 8/13/2024 | Government Operations | State Funds | Allocation of Federal Moneys | This amendment would require legislative approval via a joint resolution before the governor can expend federal money appropriated to the state. | |
| Wisconsin | 11/5/2024 | Elections | Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment | This amendment would add language to the Wisconsin Constitution that only U.S. citizens who are 18 years old or older can vote in federal, state, local, or school elections. | |
| Wyoming | 11/5/2024 | Taxes | Property Tax on Residential Property and Owner-Occupied Primary Residences Amendment | This amendment would adding residential real property as a fourth, separate, class of property and authorizing the legislature to create a subclass of residential property for owner-occupied primary residences, which could be assessed at a different rate from other property in the residential property class. |
Disclaimer: The selected measures listed are not final and are subject to changes, additions, and eliminations.
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