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One of the more controversial sections of the California Penal Code are the consecutive Sections 666 and 667; Section 666, known officially as petty theft with a prior – and colloquially, felony petty theft and makes it possible for someone who committed a minor shoplifting crime to be charged with a felony if the person had been convicted of ...
An earlier law, AB 744 (drafted by Ed Chau, signed by Jerry Brown in 2015), allowed for developers of certain types of affordable housing (housing for seniors, housing for special needs populations, housing for low-income and very-low income people, and mixed-income developments that include a minimum number of affordable units) to build less parking units than required by local zoning ...
2024 California propositions voter guide: minimum wage, crime, marriage, healthcare, rent and more
Increases income taxes for education and early childhood programs. Initiative statute. [13] 39: Passed Requires multistate businesses to calculate their California income tax liability based on the percentage of their sales in California and allocates potential revenue to create energy efficient and clean jobs. Initiative statute. [14] 40: Passed
Read more:Democrats in tight California House races back anti-crime measure opposed by Newsom Supporters of the measure spent $16.23 million. Early funders included Walmart, Home Depot and Target.
California Senate Bill 202, passed in 2011, mandated that initiatives and optional referendums can appear only on the November general election ballot, a statute that was controversial at the time, being seen as a self-serving, single-party initiative; [3] the November general election rule for initiatives and optional referendums has ...
The California Budget and Policy Center released a report estimating that Proposition 36 would increase prison costs, [32] cutting funding for behavioral health services, K-12 school programs for vulnerable youth, and trauma recovery services for crime victims, which have been supported with the savings that come from Prop 47.
A panel of the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit declared this unconstitutional, concluding that the government can't punish people criminally or civilly for being ...