Proposition Summary

PASSENGER RAIL AND CLEAN AIR BOND ACT OF 1994. • This act provides for a bond issue of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) to provide funds for acquisition of rights-of-way, capital expenditures, and acquisitions of rolling stock for intercity rail, commuter rail, and rail transit programs. • Authorizes third of three bond issues of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) each, provided for by Statutes of 1989, Chapter 108, to finance total of three billion dollars ($3,000,000,000) for the long-range transportation plan. Voters approved the first issue in 1990, rejected the second issue in 1992. • Appropriates money from state General Fund to payoff bonds.

Proposition Number

181

Year

1994

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Legislative Vote Results

Final Votes Cast by the Legislature on AB 973 (Proposition 181) Assembly - Ayes, 68; Noes, 6 -- Senate - Ayes, 38; Noes, 0 --

Popular Vote Results

Y: 2791681; A: 34.9; N: 5203161; B: 65.1

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Bond Act Act

For Author

SENATOR QUENTIN L. KOPP, Chairman, Senate Transportation Committee; DEAN R. DUNPHY, Secretary for Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency --

Against Author

PHIL WYMAN, State Senator, 16th District; TOM McCLINTOCK, Taxpayer Advocate --

Rebuttal Author

PHIL WYMAN, State Senator, 16th District; TOM McCLINTOCK, Taxpayer Advocate --

Rebuttal Against Author

DEAN R. DUNPHY, Secretary for Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency; MARIAN BERGESON, State Senator, 35th District; JAMES M. STROCK, Secretary for California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) --

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