2024 Ballot Measures
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:15am to 11:15am
Kirk-Bear Canyon Library Meeting Room
8959 E Tanque Verde Rd
Want to learn all about the many initiatives and legislative referrals that will be on the ballot in November? Join us for this in-person meeting at the Kirk-Bear Canyon Library beginning at 10:15am (note the time change).
Our guest speakers will include Sen. Priya Sundareshan, Rep. Nancy Gutierrez, and representatives from the Arizona Abortion Action Initiative, Rank Choice Voting Initiative and others.
List of measures that will be on the ballot this year:
- Abortion Access Act Amendment: Establishes the fundamental right to abortion that the state of Arizona may not interfere with before the point of fetal viability
- Eliminate Partisan Primaries Amendment: Eliminate partisan primaries and replace them with an electoral system where individuals may vote for the candidate of their choice, regardless of the party affiliation of the voter or the candidate
- Minimum Wage Increase Initiative: Increase the minimum wage to $18 per hour
- Proposition 133: Require partisan primary elections for partisan offices
- Proposition 134: Create a signature distribution requirement for citizen-initiated ballot measures based on state legislative districts
- Proposition 135: Provide for the legislature to terminate a state of emergency or alter the emergency powers of the governor during the state of emergency, and provide for any emergency powers granted to the governor to automatically terminate 30 days after the state of emergency is proclaimed, unless the state legislature extends the emergency powers granted to the governor, and except in cases for a state of war emergency or an emergency arising from a flood or a fire
- Proposition 136: Provide for challenges to an initiative measure or constitutional amendment after the filing of the measure with the secretary of state
- Proposition 137: End term limits for state supreme court justices and superior court judges, replacing them with terms of good behavior, unless decided otherwise by a judicial review commission, and would end retention elections at the end of the judicial term, providing for retention elections under certain circumstances
- Proposition 138: Allow for tipped workers to be paid 25% less per hour than the minimum wage if any tips received by the employee were not less than the minimum wage plus $2 for all hours worked
- Proposition 311: Establish a $20 fee on every conviction for a criminal offense, which would go to pay a benefit of $250,000 to the family of a first responder who is killed in the line of duty
- Proposition 312: Allow for property owners to apply for a property tax refund in certain circumstances, including in instances if the city or locality in which the property is located does not enforce laws regarding illegal camping, loitering, obstructing public thoroughfares, panhandling, public urination or defecation, public consumption of alcoholic beverages, and possession or use of illegal substances
- Proposition 313: Provide for life imprisonment for an individual who is convicted of sex trafficking of a child
- Proposition 314: Allow for state and local police to arrest noncitizens who cross the border unlawfully, allow for state judges to order deportations, require the use of the e-verify program for some public governmental programs and employment eligibility purposes, and make the sale of fentanyl a Class 2 felony if a person knowingly sells fentanyl resulting in the death of another person
- Proposition 315: Prohibit a proposed rule from becoming effective if that rule is estimated to increase regulatory costs by more than $500,000 within five years after implementation, until the legislature enacts legislation ratifying the proposed rule.
Pat Wiedhopf
Chair, Tanque Verde Valley Democratic Club
The Tanque Verde Valley Democratic Club presents speakers of interest to Democratic voters on the second Saturday of every month.
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