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Official Title: Transportation Congestion Improvement Act.
Allocation of Existing Motor Vehicle Fuel Sales and Use Tax Revenues for Transportation
Purposes Only. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
Results
Official
statewide election results are available from the Secretary
of State's web site.
| Official Summary: Requires, effective July 1, 2003,
existing revenues resulting from state sales and use taxes on the sale of motor vehicle
fuel be used for transportation purposes as provided by law until June 30, 2008.
Requires, effective July 1, 2008, existing revenues resulting from state sales and
use taxes be used for public transit and mass transportation; city and county street
and road repairs and improvements; and state highway improvements. Imposes the requirement
for a two-thirds of the Legislature to suspend or modify the percentage allocation
of the revenues. Fiscal Impact: Starting in 2008-09, about $1.4 billion in state
gasoline sales tax revenues, increasing annually thereafter, would continue to be
used for state and local transportation purposes. |
Web Sites
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NO
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none |
Contact Information
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YES
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Taxpayers for Traffic Relief/Yes on 42, A Coalition of Taxpayers, Construction, Business,
Labor, Engineers and Commuters
11300 West Olympic Blvd., #840
Los Angeles, CA 90064
(310) 996-2671 |
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info@yesprop42.com |
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NO
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no information available |
Who Signed the Ballot Arguments
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YES
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 Commissioner Dwight Helmick, California Highway Patrol |
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Wayne Johnson, President, California Teachers Association |
| Leo Soong, Chair of the Board, California State Automobile
Association-AAA |
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Howard Owens, President, Congress of CA Seniors Education
and Resource Foundation |
| Lieutenant Ed Gray, President California Organization
of Police and Sheriffs (COPS) |
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William D. Powers, President, Health Access of California |
News Coverage
| (please note:
some of the links below may no longer work, because many newspaper web sites move
stories into fee-based archives after a certain amount of time) |
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| Pothole Prop offers no quick fix for jarred drivers,
Oakland Tribune, March 8, 2002 |
| Gas-tax dedication measure wins approval of voters,
San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2002 |
| Prop.
42 limits fuel sales tax to transit, Contra Costa Times,
March 2, 2002 |
| Looser term limits not likely; Poll finds voters cool to Prop. 45 changes,
warming to gas tax plan, San Francisco Chronicle, March
1, 2002 |
| Prop. 42 gains, but Prop. 45 slides further, San
Diego Tribune, March 1, 2002 |
| Prop. 42 'Pothole Prop' to aid transportation needs,
The Oakland Tribune, February 28, 2002 |
| Two unions jump into fight against Prop. 42, Los
Angeles Times, February 27, 2002 |
| Opposition to highway measure mounts; 2 unions say Prop. 42 siphons needed
funds, San Francisco Chronicle, February 27, 2002 |
| Teachers launch last-minute attack on Prop. 42,
The Sacramento Bee, February 27, 2002 |
| This
measure is one for the roads, Los Angeles Times, February
20, 2002 |
| Prop. 42 shifts tax funds to transportation projects,
San Diego Union Tribune, February 11, 2002 |
| Roads
ballot plan backed, Modesto Bee, January 26, 2002 |
| Lawmakers
laud road-repair initiative, San Gabriel Valley Tribune,
January 31, 2002 |
| Prop.
42 proponents campaign in Oakland, San Jose Mercury News,
January 24, 2002 |
| Proposition 42: Back to ballot box budgeting,
Sacramento Bee, January 9, 2002 |
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