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2009 Initiative Analysis: Protect Homeowners and Close Corporate Tax Loopholes Act

Proposition  98 Adopted by the voters in 1988 and amended in 1990, Proposition  98 establishes a set of formulas that determines each year the minimum required funding level for K-12 schools and the community colleges.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090727.aspx

2009 Initiative Analysis: Community Hospital Taxes (Version 5)

The measure defines existing funding for hospital services as the amount expended from appropriations by the Legislature for Medi-Cal patients in the fiscal year in which the charge was enacted or in the preceding fiscal year, whichever is greater.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090744.aspx

2009 Initiative Analysis: Government Spending Limit Act of 2010 [V-2]

Spending in K-12 schools is about 41  percent of budgeted 2009 ‑10 General Fund expenditures. Community colleges receive 5  percent of budgeted 2009 ‑10 General Fund expenditures. These percentages change from year to year depending on state budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090779.aspx

2009 Initiative Analysis: California Cancer Research Act (Version 3)

This measure, enacted by the voters that year as Proposition  10, supports early childhood development programs. Twenty-five cents per pack pursuant to the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act. This initiative, enacted by the voters as Proposition  99 in 1988, increased the cigarette tax by 25 cents per pack, and provided that the tax on other tobacco products be raised commensurately with this and any future tax on cigarettes.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090811.aspx

2009 Initiative Analysis: Human Trafficking (version 2)

Human trafficking is punishable under the state Penal Code by a state prison sanction of up to five years, or, if the victim is under the age of 18, by a state prison sanction of up to eight years. In addition, state law permits victims of human trafficking to file for damages from defendants in civil court.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090850.aspx

2010 Initiative Analysis: Repeal of Mandatory Vehicle Insurance

This tax is based on the amount of insurance premiums the insurer earned in the state each year. In 2008, insurance companies paid about $247  million in premium taxes on automobile insurance policies in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100100.aspx

2010 Initiative Analysis: California Democracy Act

(The number of votes required for school appropriations from the state General Fund would continue to require only a simple majority.) Some Trailer Bills to Take Immediate Effect Would Still Require Two-Thirds Vote.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100263.aspx

2010 Initiative Analysis: The McCauley Pension Recovery Act (version 2)

2010 Initiative Analysis: The McCauley Pension Recovery Act (version 2) About the LAO May 25, 2010 Pursuant to Elections Code Section 9005, we have reviewed the proposed initiative entitled "The McCauley Pension Recovery Act " (A.G.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100325.aspx

2010 Initiative Analysis: The Free Exercise of Religion

In particular, the measure would specify that a person "using any part of the Bible's content as authority " may freely communicate his or her views at any public or private gathering, school, or place of worship, or in specified forms of communication (such as the radio or telephone).
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100644.aspx

2010 Initiative Analysis: Support Federal Immigration Law Act

However, under this measure, such a violation would constitute a felony that could be punishable by 16 months to three years in state prison if ten or more undocumented immigrants are involved in the violations.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100659.aspx