The following is a list of ballot measures, whether initiated by legislators or citizens, which have been certified to appear on various states' ballots during the 2024 United States elections as of 17 December 2023.
Alabama
March 5
- Legislatively-referred amendment: would exempt locally-focused bills, including constitutional amendments, from the budget isolation resolution process
Arizona
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Require Partisan Primaries Amendment: a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would require a partisan primary election for partisan offices.[1]
- Legislatively-referred amendment: creates a constitutional signature distribution requirement for citizen-initiated ballot measures based on state legislative districts raising the requirement from 10% of voters to 15%.[2]
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Would allow the legislature to terminate a state of emergency or alter the emergency powers of the governor during the emergency; requires emergencies declared by the governor to terminate automatically in 30 days unless extended by legislative approval.[3]
- Legislatively-referred statute: establishes a $20 fee on every conviction for a criminal offense, which would go to a $250,000 benefit to the family of a first responder killed in the line of duty.[4]
Arkansas
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows state lottery proceeds to fund scholarships and grants for vocational and technical colleges
California
March
- Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 1, Changes the funding structure and name of the Mental Health Services Act, issues bonds for veteran housing and homeless projects
November
- Citizen-initiated statute: Increases minimum wage to $18 by 2026[5]
- Citizen-initiated statute: Repeals the Private Attorneys General Act
- Veto referendum: repeals AB 257, which would establish a fast-food workers council
- Legislatively-referred amendment: lowers vote threshold from 66.67% to 55% for local special taxes and bond measures to fund housing projects
- Veto referendum: Repeals SB 1137, which would prohibit the construction of oil and gas wells within health protection zones
- Citizen-initiated amendment/statute: increases the income tax by 0.75% for 10 years to develop the California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Institute
- Citizen-initiated statute: Repeals the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act; removes ability of state to limit local rent control
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Would repeal constitutional requirement that voters approve publicly-funded housing developments at certain rent levels
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Repeals Proposition 8 and establish a right to marry regardless
- Citizen-initiated amendment: would all state or local taxes be approved by two-thirds of the electorate for either jurisdiction
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Requires ballot measures which raise vote thresholds to majority votes to pass by the same proposed threshold first
Colorado
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Creates an independent judicial discipline adjudicative board to create rules for the judicial discipline process
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Extends property tax exemption for veterans with disabilities to veterans with individual unemployability status
- Citizen-initiated amendment: Requires statewide voter approval for local governments to retain property tax revenue which exceeds 4% from the total statewide property tax revenue collected in the previous year
Connecticut
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Authorizes the state legislature to provide by law for no-excuse absentee voting[6]
Florida
Indiana
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Removes the superintendent of public instruction from the gubernatorial line of succession.
Iowa
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Iowa Require Citizenship to Vote in State Elections and Allow 17-Year-Olds to Vote in Primaries Amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote; and supports allowing 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the general election to vote in primary elections.[9]
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Would provide for the lieutenant governor to assume the office of governor for the remainder of the term if the governor dies, resigns or is removed from office.[10]
Maine
- Legislatively-referred statute: Would change the Maine state flag[11]
Maryland
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Maryland Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add a new article into the Maryland Constitution's Declaration of Rights establishing a "right to reproductive freedom".[12]
Minnesota
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Extends lottery-derived revenue direction to Environment and Natural Resources Fund for 25 years
Missouri
- Legislatively-referred amendment: would allow for property tax exemption for childcare facilities
Nebraska
- voter referendum: would repeal tax credit for taxpayers who contribute to education scholarships
Nevada
As of November 2023, five ballot measures have been certified to appear on the 2024 general election ballot:
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 1, A legislative-initiated initiative to remove the constitutional status of the Nevada Board of Regents (similar language as State Question 1 in 2022);[13]
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 2, A legislative-initiated initiative to revise language regarding public entities that benefit individuals with mental illness, blindness, or deafness;[14]
- Citizen-initiated amendment: Question 3, Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative, a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to change state and federal elections to use Nonpartisan blanket primaries in the first round of elections and ranked-choice voting in the second round among the top five candidates. Amendment was first approved by voters in 2022.[15]
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 4, A legislative-initiated initiative to remove a penal exception for slavery and involuntary servitude from the state constitution;[16]
- Legislatively-referred statute: Question 5, would create a sales tax exemption for child and adult diapers.[17]
New Hampshire
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Presidential Primary Amendment: A legislatively-referred amendment that would require the New Hampshire presidential primary to be the first presidential primary in a presidential election cycle.[18]
New Mexico
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Proportionally applies disabled veterans property tax exemption according to veteran's disability rating
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Increases property tax exemption for veterans from $4,000 to $10,000, adjusting for inflation
New York
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Equal Protection of Law Amendment: would amend the Equal Protection Clause of the state constitution to ensure equality under the law regardless of "ethnicity, national origin, age, disability", and "sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy".[19] Current text, drafted in 1938, only protects "race, color, creed, or religion". Sent to the voters
North Dakota
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 1, would update language in state constitution to reflect changes in language regarding disabilities.
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 2, would institute a single-subject rule for citizen initiatives, increase petition threshold and require passage of citizen-initiated constitutional amendments at two consecutive elections
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 3, would change requirements for transfers from the state legacy fund
Oregon
- Legislatively-referred amendment: A measure to establish an Independent Public Service Compensation Commission to determine certain public officials' salaries.[20]
- Legislatively-referred amendment: A measure that would create ranked-choice elections for US President, US Senator, US Representative, Governor, State Secretary of State, State Attorney General, State Treasurer, Commissioner of Labor and Industries starting in 2028.[21]
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows for the Legislature to impeach state elected officials.[22]
Rhode Island
- constitutional convention question: would ask voters on whether to hold a state constitutional convention
South Dakota
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Would change male-oriented language in state constitution to gender-neutral language
Utah
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Repeals constitutional requirement that income tax and intangible property tax revenue collected by the state government be distributed to educational funding; allows for distribution of revenue to other purposes by the state after educational funding requirements are met
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Increases the annual distributions from the State School Fund for public education from 4% to 5%
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Provides for elections of county sheriffs to serve four-year terms
Wisconsin
April
- Legislatively-referred amendment: provides that only election officials designated by law may administer elections.
- Legislatively-referred amendment: prohibits all levels of government in the state from receiving non-governmental funding or equipment for election administration
November
- Legislatively-referred amendment: would specify that only citizens aged 18 and above may vote in elections at all levels of government.
Wyoming
- Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows legislature to exempt property from taxation in part in full "to preserve home ownership in Wyoming for the elderly and infirm if necessary for the support of the poor."
References
- ↑ "Arizona Require Partisan Primary Elections Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
- ↑ "Arizona Signature Distribution Requirement for Initiatives Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
- ↑ "Arizona Emergency Declarations Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
- ↑ "Arizona Financial Benefit Upon Death of a First Responder Measure (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
- ↑ "California $18 Minimum Wage Initiative (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Connecticut No-Excuse Absentee Voting Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Florida Right to Hunt and Fish Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Florida Partisan School Board Elections Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ https://ballotpedia.org/Iowa_Require_Citizenship_to_Vote_in_State_Elections_and_Allow_17-Year-Olds_to_Vote_in_Primaries_Amendment_(2024)
- ↑ "Iowa Gubernatorial Succession Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
- ↑ Billings, Randy (26 July 2023). "Maine state flag referendum will wait until next year". Press Herald. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ↑ "Maryland Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Nevada Remove Constitutional Status of Board of Regents Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Nevada Revising Language Related to Public Entities for Individuals with Mental Illness, Blindness, or Deafness Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Nevada Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Nevada Remove Slavery as Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Nevada Question 5, Sales Tax Exemption for Diapers Measure (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
- ↑ "New Hampshire Presidential Primary Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "New York 2024 ballot measures". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Oregon Independent Public Service Compensation Commission Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Oregon Ranked-Choice Voting for Federal and State Elections Measure (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- ↑ "Oregon Impeachment of Elected State Executives Amendment (2024)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
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