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California voters approved by a massive margin a ballot measure to more harshly punish certain crimes — with the initiative garnering a whopping 70.6% support with nearly 7.6 million ballots ...
California voters approved a ballot measure that will impose stricter penalties for repeat theft and crimes ... Proposition 36 is expected to cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars a year ...
Proposition 36, titled Allows Felony Charges and Increases Sentences for Certain Drug and Theft Crimes, was an initiated California ballot proposition and legislative statute that was passed by a landslide in the 2024 general election [2] [3] and went into effect in December 2024. [4]
Read more:Prop. 2, statewide bond measure to upgrade California schools, approved by voters. Proposition 4. California voters approved this bond measure, which will authorize the state to borrow ...
(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has laid out how The Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, passed by voters on Nov. 5., will be implemented. Prop. 36 ...
Proposition 36 will essentially undo the 2014 law by increasing penalties for theft and certain drug crimes. It faced resistance in Sacramento and from Gov. Gavin Newsom, despite polls long ...
California saw an… Repeat offenders may now be charged with felonies under Proposition 36, which partially repeals 2014 legislation lightening nonviolent crime sentences.
Proposition 36, also titled A Change in the "Three Strikes Law" Initiative, was a California ballot measure that was passed in November 2012 to modify California's Three Strikes Law (passed in 1994). The latter law punishes habitual offenders by establishing sentence escalation for crimes that were classified as "strikes", and requires a ...