General Election November 2024 NO on Prop 36: Increase Penalties For Theft And Drug Trafficking. Prop 36 would erode criminal justice reform in California by reversing key advances aimed at reducing mass incarceration and promoting rehabilitation. It would impose stricter…
General Election November 2024 NO on Prop 35: Permanent Funding For Medi-Cal Health Care Services. Medi-Cal provides health services to over 15 million low-income Californians. Prop 35 is a well-meaning but misguided effort to try to provide more and steady…
General Election November 2024 NO POSITION on Prop 34: Restricts Spending By Health Care Providers Meeting Specified Criteria. When the LWVC has no position relevant to a ballot measure, we offer no analysis. Download Vote with the League Flyer
General Election November 2024 NEUTRAL on Prop 33: Expands Local Authority To Enact Rent Control On Residential Property. The League supports efforts to help resolve California’s housing crisis. We promote solutions aimed at increasing housing production in a sustainable, accessible,…
General Election November 2024 YES on Prop 32: Raises Minimum Wage To $18. California has a high cost of living and our current $16 minimum wage is well below the estimated living wage needed to support a household’s basic needs.…
General Election November 2024 YES on Prop 6: End Slavery In California Act. Prop 6, the End Slavery in California Act, is long overdue and both a moral imperative and practical necessity. Morally, it addresses a profound injustice embedded in…
General Election November 2024 YES on Prop 5: Lower Voting Threshold On Local Housing & Infrastructure Bonds. Prop 5 would reduce the voting margin necessary to approve local bonds and taxes for affordable housing, transportation, parks and other public infrastructure,…
General Election November 2024 YES on Prop 3: Freedom to Marry. Despite the existence of modern legal safeguards guaranteeing marriage equality, California’s Constitution carries the shameful stain of language declaring that only marriage between a man and a woman will…
General Election November 2024 YES on Prop 2: School & Community College Facility Bonds. Prop 2 would supplement local bond funds by authorizing $8.5 billion in state bonds for construction and modernization of K-12 schools and $1.5 billion for community…
General Election November 2024 YES on Prop 4: Climate Protection Project Bonds. The bonds for “safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, and protecting communities and natural lands from climate risks” would allow the state to borrow $10 billion for much-needed climate and environmental…