Year: 2024
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Twelfth initiative qualified for California 2024 ballot: Measure to revise Children’s Services Program
An initiative to change California Children’s Services (CCS) Program eligibility requirements and authorize the program to cover the costs of life-saving specialty drugs qualified for the ballot on June 21. This marks the twelfth initiative to qualify this cycle, the highest number since 2016 when 15 initiatives were certified. The initiative is sponsored by the…
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Voters in Rhode Island will decide on four bond measures at the general election
Voters in Rhode Island will decide on four bond measures at the general election on Nov. 5, 2024. The bond measures were included in the state budget bill, House Bill 7225 (HB 7225), as a provision of Article 5. Each article was approved separately by the House and Senate. To put a legislatively referred bond…
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Rhode Island enacts a readability requirement, an eighth-grade reading level, for ballot measure questions
In Rhode Island, a new law requires that ballot measure questions be written in plain language and reasonably calculated to be understood by those with an eighth-grade reading level. The bill was passed unanimously by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Daniel McKee (D) on June 4, 2024. Currently, five measures have…
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Trump leads presidential race in cash on hand for first time since October 2023
As of May 31, 2024, the end of the most recent presidential campaign finance filing period, former President Donald Trump (R) led noteworthy presidential candidates in cash on hand with $117 million, followed by President Joe Biden (D) with $92 million, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) with $6 million, and Chase Oliver with $25,362. Biden…
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Arizona legislature refers 11 measures to the general election ballot, most on record since 1984
The Arizona State Legislature adjourned on June 15, 2024, and referred 11 measures to the ballot—five state statutes and six constitutional amendments. This is the most legislatively referred measures on the ballot since 1984, when 13 measures were on the ballot, and the third-highest year on record in the state. Some measures did not make…
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Federal Register weekly update: Yearly page total tops 50,000 (2024)
The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity, accounting for both regulatory and deregulatory actions. From June 17, 2024, through June 21, 2024, the Federal Register grew by 1,152 pages, bringing…
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Sarah Klee Hood and John Mannion running in the June 25 Democratic primary for New York’s 22nd Congressional District
Two candidates are running in the Democratic primary election for New York’s 22nd Congressional District on June 25: Sarah Klee Hood (D) and John Mannion (D). The Democratic primary winner will face incumbent U.S. Rep. Brandon Williams (R) in the November general election. Klee Hood and Mannion addressed voters at a May candidate forum. Both…
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Cumulative Democratic and Republican party committee fundraising reached $1 billion in May
As of May 31, 2024, the end of the most recent party committee campaign finance filing period, the three committees associated with the Democratic Party have raised a cumulative $565 million and spent $428 million for the 2024 election cycle, while the three committees associated with the Republican Party have raised $486 million and spent…