El Dorado County

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Proposition 2

VOTE NO
This bond issue would authorize the state to borrow $8.5 billion for K-12 schools and $1.5 billion for community colleges for construction and modernization.

Proposition 3

VOTE NO
This constitutional amendment would redefine marriage in the California State Constitution. Its vague language opens up dangerous precedent in California law.

Proposition 4

VOTE NO
This bond issue would allow the state to borrow $3.8 billion for drinking water and groundwater programs, $1.5 billion for wildfire and forest programs and $1.2 billion for sea level rise.

Proposition 5

VOTE NO
This constitutional amendment would make it easier for local governments to borrow money for affordable housing by lowering the voter approval requirement from two-thirds to 55%

Proposition 6

NEUTRAL POSITION
Amends the California Constitution to remove current provision that allows jails and prisons to impose involuntary servitude to punish crime

Proposition 32

VOTE NO
This initiative would raise the minimum wage from $16 an hour and adjust it for inflation, fast food workers = $20 and health care workers = $25.

Proposition 33

VOTE NO
This measure would roll back the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995 that generally prevents cities and counties from limiting rents in properties first occupied after Feb. 1, 1995.

Proposition 34

NEUTRAL POSITION
Requires certain providers to spend 98% of revenues from federal discount prescription drug program on direct patient care. Authorizes statewide negotiation of Medi-Cal drug prices.

Proposition 35

NEUTRAL POSITION
Makes permanent the existing tax on managed health care insurance plans.

Proposition 36

VOTE YES
This measure would partly roll back Proposition 47, approved by voters in 2014, that turned some felonies into misdemeanors.