For 2024, 118 statewide ballot measures have been certified for the ballot in 35 states, six more measures than the average (112) for this point in the election cycle from 2012 to 2022. The average number of statewide ballot measures certified for an even-numbered year during this period was 157. Here’s an update on the…
The Coalition to Protect Access to Care is sponsoring an initiative that would permanently authorize a tax on managed care organizations (MCO) based on monthly enrollees, which is set to expire in 2026, to fund Medi-Cal Health Care Services. The California Secretary of State announced on June 4 that it had qualified for the ballot…
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public pension fund in the country, announced on May 21 that it has chosen to take action against ExxonMobil at the company’s May 29 annual shareholder meeting. Because of a lawsuit filed by Exxon against two small shareholders – Arjuna Capital and Follow This – CalPERS…
For 2024, 110 statewide ballot measures have been certified for the ballot in 35 states, five more measures than the average (105) for this point in the election cycle from 2012 to 2022. The average number of statewide ballot measures certified for an even-numbered year during this period was 157. Here’s an update on the…
Protect Patients Now, which is sponsored by the California Apartment Association, has qualified an initiative for the November ballot in California that would require entities defined as prescription drug price manipulators to spend at least 98% or more of their revenue earned from their national participation in the 340B program on direct patient care to…
The campaign behind an initiative to change the eligibility requirements for the California Children’s Services (CCS) Program and authorize the program to cover the costs of life-saving specialty drugs submitted signatures on May 9. The total count of raw signatures submitted was not available on May 9. In California, the number of signatures required for…
The California Secretary of State announced on May 8 that Californians for Financial Education had submitted 693,676 valid signatures—surpassing the signature requirement of 546,651 and qualifying for a place on the Nov. 5 ballot. The initiated state statute would require students graduating during the 2029-2030 academic year to complete a one-semester personal finance course. The…
The California Senate Labor, Public Unemployment and Retirement Committee advanced Senate Bill 1116 on Apr. 24, which proposes allowing workers to claim unemployment insurance benefits after striking for two weeks. The bill now heads to the Senate Committee on Appropriations for further consideration. California lawmakers passed similar legislation in 2023, but Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)…
Californians for Safer Communities reported filing over 900,000 signatures on April 18 in support of an initiative that would make changes to Proposition 47, which California voters approved in 2014 by a vote of 59.6% to 40.4%. Proposition 47 classified certain crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies unless the defendant had prior convictions for murder,…
Protect Patients Now, which is sponsored by the California Apartment Association, submitted over 860,000 raw signatures for verification on April 10, according to the secretary of state. The campaign needs 546,651 signatures to be valid to qualify the initiated state statute for the November ballot in California. The initiative would establish a new category of…