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June 29, 2004

Props 59 through 72

Secretary of State Kevin Shelley has numbered the 14 propositions that will appear on the November ballot. They are:

59. SCA 1, a proposal to broaden access to government information.

60. SCA 18, the legislative constitutional amendment to counter the open primary initiative, which is Proposition 62.

61. $750 million bond measure for children’s hospitals.

62. Open primary initiative.

63. New tax on million-dollar earners to pay for expansion of mental health care.

64. New limits on lawsuits filed under Unfair Business Competition laws.

65. Initiative to protect local funds from state tax shifts.

66. Softening of three-strikes law; specifies violent and/or serious felonies that trigger third strike.

67. Telephone tax to pay for emergency room care.

68. Card room and race track initiative to expand casino gambling beyond tribal reservations and send 25 percent of revenues to the state.

69. DNA initiative to require collection of samples from all felony arrestees.

70. Initiative to expand tribal casinos and apply fee equivalent to corporate tax.

71. Authorizes up to $3 billion in bonds to pay for expanded stem cell research.

72. Referendum on SB 2, the health care mandate.