Proposition Summary

STATE, LOCAL TAXATION. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. • Abolishes per unit basis for special personal property taxes; requires such taxes based on property value; limits rate of tax to 1% of value. • Extends 2/3 vote requirement necessary for legislative approval of state general special taxes to any new, or increase in, such taxes, and to voter approval of special taxes through initiative. • Requires charter cities to get majority voter approval of new or increased local general taxes. • Provides temporary exceptions for disaster relief. • States that conflicting measures on November, 1990 ballot, which impose special taxes with less than 2/3 vote, are invalid. Summary of Legislative Analyst's Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact: • Restricts rate of certain special taxes, could limit future ability of state to raise revenues through such taxes. • Could limit future passage of initiative statutes proposing approval of special state taxes. • Prohibits imposition of new, higher general taxes by charter cities without voter approval, thus potentially preventing such cities from increasing revenues. • Unknown fiscal effect on other local governments. • Could facilitate local government's enactment of new or higher taxes for disaster relief.

Proposition Number

136

Year

1990

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 3439621; A: 47.88; N: 3744620; B: 52.12

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

For Author

Joel Fox, President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association; Richard Gann, President, Paul Gann's Citizens Committee

Against Author

Bill Honig, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Senator Ed Davis, Former Police Chief, City of Los Angeles; Dan Terry, President, California Professional Firefighters

Rebuttal Author

Police Chief Ron Lowenberg, President, Police Chiefs Department of the League of California Cities; Dorothy Leonard, President, California State Parent-Teacher Association (PTA); Carole Wagner Vallianos, President, League of Women Voters of California

Rebuttal Against Author

Joel Fox, President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association; Richard Gann, President, Paul Gann's Citizens Committee

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