California Ballot Initiative Breakdown Lucas Public Affairs

Prop 1 Prop 2 Prop 3 Veterans and Affordable Use Millionaire’s Tax Revenue for Water Infrastructure and Watershed Housing Bond Act of 2018 Homelessness Prevention Housing Conservation Bond Authorizes $4 billion in general Bonds Measure Authorizes $8.877 billion in state obligation bonds for existing affordable Authorizes state to use revenue from general obligation bonds for various housing programs for low-income millionaire’s tax for $2 billion in bonds infrastructure projects. Fiscal Impact: residents, veterans, farmworkers, for homelessness prevention housing. Increased state costs to repay bonds manufactured and mobile homes, infill, averaging $430 million per year over 40 and transit-oriented housing. Fiscal Argument In Favor years. Local government savings for Impact: Increased state costs to repay Supportive housing and treatment for water-related projects, likely averaging a bonds averaging about $170 million homeless people living with serious couple hundred million dollars annually annually over the next 35 years. mental illness. Proposition 2 won’t raise over the next few decades. taxes. It will help people off the streets Argument In Favor and into comprehensive mental health Argument In Favor Proposition 1 provides relief from the services and addiction treatment. YES ON 3 secures safe, reliable, and housing crisis by building some housing clean water for California. YES ON 3 and helping those who struggle to buy Top Funders In Favor provides safe drinking water; repairs housing; The measure honors veterans Housing California, California unsafe dams; provides drought by helping them to buy a home. Housing Consortium, State Building protection; improves water quality in our and Construction Trades Council of ocean, bays, and rivers; and captures, Top Funders In Favor California, Silicon Valley Leadership treats, and reuses stormwater. YES ON 3 Housing California, California Group, Chevron, PG&E and the Kaiser provides water for people, farms, and the Housing Consortium, State Building Foundation environment. and Construction Trades Council of California, Silicon Valley Leadership Editorials In Favor Top Funders In Favor Group, Chevron, PG&E and the Kaiser • Bakersfield Californian California Waterfowl Association, Ducks Foundation • Desert Sun Unlimited, California Wildlife Foundation • Fresno Bee and California Wildlife and Foundation Editorials In Favor • Los Angeles Times Vesta Fund • Bakersfield Californian • Mercury News • Desert Sun • Modesto Bee Editorials In Favor • Fresno Bee • Sacramento Bee • Bakersfield Californian • Los Angeles Times • San Diego Union-Tribune • Fresno Bee • Mercury News • San Francisco Chronicle • Santa Rosa Press Democrat • Modesto Bee • Santa Rosa Press Democrat • Sacramento Bee Argument Against • San Francisco Chronicle Argument Against Proposition 3 gives money to lots of • Santa Rosa Press Democrat Taking up to $5.6 BILLION away from organizations. That’s the whole idea. the severely mentally ill to fund bonds But it will not produce one drop of new, Argument Against to build them just housing without usable water. Interest payments on the Proposition 1 will help a very limited requiring treatment will force many more bonds will double the amount that has to number of persons; Californians are into homelessness. It is unnecessary, be repaid to bond holders. being asked to borrow more money because last year the Legislature through these bonds which will end up authorized county use of MHSA funds Top Funders Against costing everyone. for housing without the need to borrow Sierra Club money. Top Funders Against Editorials Against N/A Top Funders Against • Desert Sun N/A • Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Editorials Against • Long Beach Press-Telegram • Inland Daily Bulletin Editorials Against • Los Angeles Daily News • Long Beach Press-Telegram • Inland Valley Bulletin • Los Angeles Times • Los Angeles Daily News • Long Beach Press-Telegram • Mercury News • Orange County Register • Los Angeles Daily News • Orange County Register • Riverside Press-Enterprise • Orange County Register • Riverside Press-Enterprise • San Bernardino Sun • Riverside Press-Enterprise • Sacramento Bee • San Diego Union-Tribune • San Bernardino Sun • San Bernardino Sun • Torrance Daily Breeze • Torrance Daily Breeze • San Diego Union-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle Prop 4 Prop 5 Prop 6 Children’s Hospital Bonds Initiative Proposition 13 Tax Transfer Initiative Voter Approval for Gas and Authorizes $1.5 billion in bonds to be Removes certain transfer requirements Vehicle Taxes Initiative repaid from state’s General Fund to for homeowners over 55, severely Repeals a 2017 transportation law’s fund grants for construction, expansion, disabled homeowners and contaminated taxes and fees designated for road renovation and equipping of qualifying or disaster-destroyed property. Fiscal repairs and public transportation. Fiscal children’s hospitals. Fiscal Impact: Impact: Schools and local governments Impact: Reduced ongoing revenues of Increased state costs to repay bonds each would lose over $100 million in $5.1 billion from state fuel and vehicle averaging about $80 million annually annual property taxes early on, growing taxes that mainly would have paid for over the next 35 years. to about $1 billion per year. Similar highway and road maintenance and increase in state costs to backfill school repairs, as well as transit programs. Argument In Favor property tax losses. California Children’s Hospitals provide Argument In Favor specialized care for over 2 million sick Argument In Favor VOTE YES ON 6 to immediately LOWER children each year—cancer, sickle cell, Proposition 5 eliminates the “moving GAS PRICES. Californians are struggling organ transplants—no matter what penalty” that currently hurts SENIORS with the high cost of living. VOTE YES families can pay. 85% of children with (55+) and SEVERELY DISABLED on Proposition 6 to repeal the unfair leukemia are cured. Proposition 4 Californians. YES means SENIORS and regressive gas and car tax increase and increases capacity, provides the latest SEVERELY DISABLED can purchase a require voter approval for any future technology, and advances pediatric new primary residence and not face increase. VOTE YES on Proposition 6 for research to cure more children. this property tax penalty. YES allows lower gas prices! SENIORS/ SEVERELY DISABLED to move Top Funders In Favor near family or purchase more practical, Top Funders In Favor California Children’s Hospital safer homes. California Republican Party, John Cox Association, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Valley Children’s Hospital and Top Funders In Favor Editorials In Favor the Children’s Hospital of Orange County California Association of Realtors, • Inland Valley Daily Bulletin National Association of Realtors • Long Beach Press-Telegram Editorials In Favor • Los Angeles Daily News • Daily Californian Editorials In Favor • Orange County Register • Bakersfield Californian • Bakersfield Californian • Riverside Press-Enterprise • Los Angeles Times • Inland Valley Daily Bulletin • San Bernardino Sun • Mercury News • Long Beach Press-Telegram • Torrance Daily Breeze • Modesto Bee • Los Angeles Daily News • Sacramento Bee • Orange County Register Argument Against • San Diego Union-Tribune • Riverside Press-Enterprise California Professional Firefighters, • San Francisco Chronicle • San Bernardino Sun California Association of Highway • Santa Cruz Sentinel • San Diego Union-Tribune Patrolmen, American Society of • Santa Rosa Press Democrat • Torrance Daily Breeze Civil Engineers and first responders URGE NO on Proposition 6 because it Argument Against Argument Against jeopardizes the safety of bridges and Proposition 4 would authorize the State Proposition 5 doesn’t build any new roads. Proposition 6 eliminates $5 billion to borrow $1.5 billion for construction housing or help first-time homebuyers annually in local transportation funding, and expansion at “non-profit” children purchase homes. It will cut up to $1 stopping thousands of road safety, hospitals by selling bonds that would billion in local revenue from public congestion relief and transportation need to be repaid with interest. We schools, fire, police, health care and improvement projects in every California should look at the bigger picture and ask other services for tax breaks for wealthy community. how to improve health care outcomes in Californians and to help its authors— California. corporate real estate interests. Top Funders Against California Professional Firefighters, Top Funders Against Top Funders Against California Association of Highway Elizabeth Wall Ralston, former president SEIU California State Council, California Patrolmen, American Society of of the League of Women Voters of Los Teachers Association, American Professional Engineers, State Building Angeles Federation of State, County and and Construction Trades Council of Municipal Employees California, California Alliance for Jobs Editorials Against • Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Editorials Against Editorials Against • Long Beach Press-Telegram • Desert Sun • Bakersfield Californian • Los Angeles Daily News • Los Angeles Times • Desert Sun • Orange County Register • Mercury News • La Opinion • Riverside Press-Enterprise • Modesto Bee • Los Angeles Times • San Bernardino Sun • Sacramento Bee • Mercury News • Torrance Daily Breeze • San Francisco Chronicle • Modesto Bee • Santa Rosa Press Democrat • Sacramento Bee • San Diego Union-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • Santa Rosa Press Democrat • Ventura County Star Prop 7 Prop 8 Prop 10 Permanent Daylight Regulates Amounts Outpatient Kidney Expands Local Governments’ Authority to Saving Time Measure Dialysis Clinics Charge of Enact Rent Control on Residential Property Gives Legislature ability to change Dialysis Treatment Repeals state law that currently restricts daylight saving time period by two- Requires rebates and penalties if the scope of rent control policies that thirds vote, if changes are consistent charges exceed limit. Requires annual cities and other local jurisdictions with federal law. Fiscal Impact: This reporting to the state. Prohibits clinics may impose on residential property. measure has no direct fiscal effect from refusing to treat patients based Fiscal Impact: Potential net reduction because changes to daylight saving time on payment source. Fiscal Impact: in state and local revenues of tens of would depend on future actions by the Overall annual effect on state and local millions of dollars per year in the long Legislature and potentially the federal governments ranging from net positive term. Depending on actions by local government. impact in the low tens of millions of communities, revenue losses could be dollars to net negative impact in the tens less or considerably more. Argument In Favor of millions of dollars. Proposition 7 will end the biannual Argument In Favor time changes that medical researchers Argument In Favor Proposition 10 restores authority and economists agree are hazardous Dialysis is a life-saving treatment, but to establish rent control in local to the health and productivity of big dialysis corporations making huge communities, putting fair, annual limits schoolchildren, the workforce and profits don’t invest enough in basic on the amount landlords can raise rent. seniors. Vote Yes on Proposition 7 sanitation and patient care. YES ON 8 This keeps tenants in their homes rather to keep our children, workplaces and supports investment in quality patient than being pushed far away or into roadways safe. care and stops overcharging that drives homelessness. TEN protects TENants. up costs for Californians. The California Top Funders In Favor Democratic Party, veterans, healthcare Top Funders In Favor N/A advocates and religious leaders agree. AIDS Healthcare Foundation, California Democratic Party, California Nurses Editorials In Favor Top Funders In Favor Association, California Teacher’s • Los Angeles Times Californians for Kidney Dialysis Association, ACLU of California, Housing • Ventura County Star Patient Protection, Service Employees California, Eviction Defense Network, SEIU International Union, United Healthcare and National Urban Defense League Argument Against Workers West, California State Council of Proposition 7 allows for permanent Service Employees Editorials In Favor Daylight Saving time, subject to federal • Los Angeles Times approval. It would be light in the evening Editorials In Favor • Sacramento Bee in the summer, as it is now, but winter • N/A mornings would be dark for an extra Argument Against hour so children would be going to Argument Against Proposition 10 will make the housing school in the dark. Proposition 8 is OPPOSED by thousands crisis worse, not better. Affordable of nurses, doctors, patients, the housing advocates agree that Proposition Top Funders Against American Nurses Association\California, 10 is bad for renters and bad for N/A California Medical Association, American homeowners! It allows regulation of College of Emergency Physicians of CA single-family homes and puts bureaucrats Editorials Against because it would result in the closure in charge of housing by letting them add • Bakersfield Californian of many dialysis clinics in California— fees on top of rent. VOTE NO ON 10! • Fresno Bee dangerously reducing access to care, • Mercury News putting the lives of vulnerable dialysis Top Funders Against • Modesto Bee patients at risk, and increasing costs for California Association of Realtors, • Sacramento Bee California taxpayers. Blackstone Property Partners, Essex • San Francisco Chronicle Property Trust, Equity Residential Top Funders Against California Medical Association, National Editorials Against Kidney Foundation, DaVita, Fresenius • Bakersfield Californian Medical Care North America • Fresno Bee • Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Editorials Against • La Opinion • Bakersfield Californian • Long Beach Press-Telegram • Desert Sun • Los Angeles Daily News • Fresno Bee • Mercury News • La Opinion • Modesto Bee • Los Angeles Times • Orange County Register • Mercury News • Riverside Press-Enterprise • Modesto Bee • San Bernardino Sun • San Diego Union-Tribune • San Diego Union-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • San Francisco Chronicle • Santa Rosa Press Democrat • Santa Rosa Press Democrat • Torrance Daily Breeze • Ventura County Star Prop 11 Prop 12 Requires Private-Sector Emergency Ambulance Establishes New Standards for Confinement of Employees to Remain On-Call During Work Breaks; Specified Farm Animals; Bans Sale of Noncomplying Eliminates Certain Employer Liability Products Law entitling hourly employees to breaks without Establishes minimum requirements for confining being on-call would not apply to private-sector certain farm animals. Prohibits sales of meat and ambulance employees. Fiscal Impact: Likely fiscal egg products from animals confined in noncomplying benefit to local governments (in the form of lower manner. Fiscal Impact: Potential decrease in state costs and higher revenues), potentially in the tens of income tax revenues from farm businesses, likely not millions of dollars each year. more than several million dollars annually. State costs up to $10 million annually to enforce the measure. Argument In Favor California faces disasters too often. Proposition Argument In Favor 11 ensures EMTs and paramedics are paid to be Confining a baby veal calf, mother pig, or egg- reachable during breaks to save lives, gives them laying hen inside a tiny cage is cruel. Products from better disaster training that meets FEMA standards these suffering animals threaten food safety. YES and mandatory mental health coverage. In an on Proposition 12 endorsers: Nearly 500 California emergency, seconds are the difference between life veterinarians, ASPCA, Humane Society of the United and death. YES on 11! It’s commonsense. States, California family farmers and animal shelters, Center for Food Safety. Top Funders In Favor American Medical Response Top Funders In Favor The Humane Society of the United States of America, Editorials In Favor American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, the • Bakersfield Californian Humane League • Inland Valley Daily Bulletin • Long Beach Press-Telegram Editorials In Favor • Los Angeles Daily News • Los Angeles Times • Los Angeles Times • Mercury News • Mercury News • Modesto Bee Argument Against • Orange County Register This outrageous sell-out to the egg industry betrays • Riverside Press-Enterprise animals and voters. Californians already voted to ban • Sacramento Bee cages by 2015. This cruel measure legalizes cages • San Bernardino Sun until at least 2022! And hens get just ONE SQUARE • San Diego Union-Tribune FOOT of space. Vote NO on farm animal cruelty by • Santa Rosa Press Democrat voting NO on Proposition 12. • Torrance Daily Breeze Top Funders Against Top Funders Against Californians Against Cruelty, Cages and Fraud and the N/A Humane Farming Action Fund

Argument Against Editorials Against No argument against Proposition 11 was submitted. • Bakersfield Californian • Modesto Bee Editorials Against • Sacramento Bee • San Francisco Chronicle • San Diego Union-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • Santa Rosa Press Democrat

For more information about initiatives on the midterm election ballot, visit the California Secretary of State website at www.sos.ca.gov.