Proposition Summary

THE HERTZBERG-POLANCO CRIME LABORATORIES CONSTRUCTION BOND ACT OF 1999. • Provides for a bond issue of two hundred twenty million dollars ($220,000,000) to provide funds for a program for the construction, renovation, and infrastructure costs associated with the construction of new local forensic laboratories and the remodeling of existing local forensic laboratories. • Creates Forensic Laboratories Authority to consider and approve applications for construction and renovation of forensic laboratories. • Appropriates money from General Fund to pay off bonds. Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact: • State costs of about $377 million over 25 years to pay off both the principal ($220 million) and interest ($157 million) costs of the bonds. Payments of about $15 million per year. • One-time costs of about $20 million to local governments to match state funds. • Unknown annual costs to local governments to support crime laboratories, potentially in the millions of dollars.

Proposition Number

15

Year

2000

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Legislative Vote Results

Final Votes Cast by the Legislature on AB 1391 (Proposition 15) Assembly - Ayes, 65; Noes, 12 -- Senate - Ayes, 35; Noes, 3

Popular Vote Results

Y: 3265416; A: 46.3; N: 3772513; B: 53.7

Election Type

Primary

Proposition Type

Bond Act

For Author

GRAY DAVIS, Governor of California; WILLIAM J. HEMBY, California Organization of Police & Sheriffs; DANIEL A. TERRY, President, California Professional Firefighters

Against Author

GAIL K. LIGHTFOOT, Past Chair, Libertarian Party of California; THOMAS TRYON, Calaveras County Supervisor; TED BROWN, Insurance Adjuster/Investigator

Rebuttal Author

GAIL K. LIGHTFOOT, Past Chair, Libertarian Party of California; THOMAS TRYON, Calaveras County Supervisor; TED BROWN, Insurance Adjuster/Investigator

Rebuttal Against Author

Charles C. Plummer, President, California State Sheriffs Association; DANIEL A. TERRY, President, California Professional Firefighters; TOM TORLAKSON, Member, California State Assembly Information Technology Budget Subcommittee

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