List of California ballot propositions 1970–1979

List of California ballot propositions: 1970-1979

See also: List of California ballot propositions 1960-1969, List of California ballot propositions 1980-1989

Elections

June 2, 1970

*1 - Failed - University Of California Health Science Facilities.
*2 - Passed - Partial Constitutional Revision: Local Government.
*3 - Failed - Partial Constitutional Revision: Public Utilities, Corporations And Water Use.
*4 - Failed - Partial Constitutional Revision: Various.
*5 - Failed - Partial Constitutional Revision: Future Constitutional Amendments, State Civil Service.
*6 - Passed - State And County Boards Of Education: Textbooks.
*7 - Passed - Interest Rate On State Bonds.
*8 - Failed - Taxation For Schools And Social Welfare.

November 3, 1970

*1 - Passed - The Clean Water Bond Law of 1970.
*2 - Failed - Vacancies In Specified Constitutional Offices.
*3 - Passed - State Budget.
*4 - Failed - Appropriation For Public Schools.
*5 - Passed - Regents University Of California: Public Meetings.
*6 - Passed - Teachers' Retirement Fund: Investments.
*7 - Passed - State Colleges: Speaker Member Of Governing Body.
*8 - Failed - Superintendent Of Public Instruction.
*9 - Failed - County Superintendent Of Schools.
*10 - Failed - Interest Rate Limitation.
*11 - Passed - Chiropractors: Rules.
*12 - Passed - Compensation Of County Supervisors.
*13 - Passed - Tax Exemption For Disabled Veterans And Blind Veterans.
*14 - Passed - State Civil Service.
*15 - Passed - Partial Constitutional Revision.
*16 - Passed - Constitutional Amendments.
*17 - Passed - Partial Constitutional Revision: Social Welfare.
*18 - Failed - Motor Vehicle Taxation And Revenues.
*19 - Passed - Usury.
*20 - Passed - The Recreation And Fish And Wildlife Enhancement Bond Act.

June 6, 1972

*1 - Passed - The Veterans Bond Act Of 1971.
*2 - Passed - The State School Building Aid And Earthquake Reconstruction And Replacement Bond Law Of 1972.
*3 - Passed - Right To Assistance Of Counsel.
*4 - Passed - Open Presidential Primary.
*5 - Passed - Appointment Of Regents, University Of California.
*6 - Passed - Naturalized Citizen Voting Eligibility.
*7 - Passed - Valuation Of Single-Family Dwellings For Tax Purposes.
*8 - Passed - Chiropractors.
*9 - Failed - Clean Environment Act.
*10 - Passed - Partial Constitutional Revision.

November 7, 1972

*1 - Passed - Bonds To Provide Public Community College Facilities.
*2 - Passed - Bonds To Provide Health Science Facilities.
*3 - Passed - Environmental Pollution Bond Authorization.
*4 - Passed - Legislative Reorganization.
*5 - Passed - School Districts.
*6 - Passed - Miscellaneous Constitutional Revisions.
*7 - Passed - Elections And Presidential Primary.
*8 - Failed - Tax Exemption For Anti-Pollution Facilities.
*9 - Passed - Bond Vote For Structurally Unsafe School Buildings.
*10 - Passed - Blind Veterans Tax Exemption.
*11 - Passed - Right Of Privacy.
*12 - Passed - Disabled Veterans Tax Exemption.
*13 - Passed - Workmen's Compensation.
*14 - Failed - Property Tax Limitations.
*15 - Failed - State Employee Salaries.
*16 - Failed - Salaries. California Highway Patrol.
*17 - Passed - Death Penalty.
*18 - Failed - Obscenity Legislation.
*19 - Failed - Marijuana - Removal Of Penalty For Personal Use.
*20 - Passed - Coastal Zone Conservation Act.
*21 - Passed - Assignment Of Students To Schools.
*22 - Failed - Agricultural Labor Relations.

November 6, 1973

*1 - Failed - Tax And Expenditure Limitations.

June 4, 1974

*1 - Passed - Recreational Lands Bond Act.
*2 - Passed - Clean Water Bond Law Of 1974.
*3 - Passed - Veterans Bond Act Of 1974.
*4 - Passed - Reassessment Of Property In Event Of Damage Or Destruction.
*5 - Passed - Highways And Mass Transit Guideways.
*6 - Passed - Public Legislative Proceedings.
*7 - Failed - State Civil Service Exemptions.
*8 - Passed - Sacramento County-Cities Consolidation.
*9 - Passed - Political Reform Initiative.

November 5, 1974

*1 - Passed - State School Building Aid And Earthquake Reconstruction And Replacement Bond Law.
*2 - Passed - Charters For Counties And Cities.
*3 - Failed - Postsecondary Education Commission Personnel - Civil Service.
*4 - Passed - Regents, University Of California.
*5 - Passed - Residence Of Local Government Employee.
*6 - Passed - Property Tax Exemptions.
*7 - Passed - Declaration Of Rights.
*8 - Passed - Taxation And State Funds.
*9 - Passed - Recall Of Public Officers.
*10 - Passed - Right To Vote.
*11 - Passed - Miscellaneous Language Changes Regarding Gender.
*12 - Passed - Public Utilities.
*13 - Passed - San Diego County Judicial Districts.
*14 - Failed - State College System.
*15 - Failed - Low Rent Housing.
*16 - Failed - Student Tuition, University Of California.
*17 - Failed - Wild And Scenic Rivers Initiative.

June 8, 1976

*1 - Failed - The State School Building Lease-Purchase Bond Law Of 1976.
*2 - Passed - Veterans Bond Act Of 1976.
*3 - Passed - California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law Of 1976.
*4 - Failed - Bonds To Provide Public Community College Facilities.
*5 - Passed - Banks, Corporations, Franchises And Insurers-Taxation.
*6 - Passed - Insurance Company Home Office Tax Deduction.
*7 - Passed - Taxation Of Restricted Historic Property.
*8 - Passed - Deposit Of Public Moneys In Savings And Loan Associations.
*9 - Passed - Bingo.
*10 - Failed - Bonds To Refund State Indebtedness.
*11 - Passed - Motor Vehicle Taxes-Local Surplus Property.
*12 - Failed - Interest Rate.
*13 - Passed - Property Tax Postponement.
*14 - Passed - Miscellaneous Constitutional Revisions.
*15 - Failed - Nuclear Power Plants-Initiative Statute.

November 2, 1976

*1 - Failed - Housing Finance Bond Law Of 1975.
*2 - Passed - Nejedly-Hart State, Urban and Coastal Park Bond Act of 1976.
*3 - Failed - Residential Energy Conservation Bond Law.
*4 - Passed - University of California. Competitive Bidding. Grounds for Denial of Admission.
*5 - Failed - Interest Rates Allowable.
*6 - Failed - Bills and Statutes-Effective Date. Governor's Consideration. Referendum.
*7 - Passed - Judges. Censure, Removal, Judicial Performance Commission.
*8 - Passed - County Superintendents of Schools and Boards of Education.
*9 - Passed - State Constitutional Offices. Filling Vacancies In. Confirmation.
*10 - Passed - Property Taxation by Local Governments Whose Boundaries Include Area in Two or More Counties.
*11 - Passed - Tax Rates on Unsecured Property.
*12 - Failed - Loans by State for Energy Conservation Improvements in Residential Structures.
*13 - Failed - Greyhound Dog Racing - Initiative Statute.
*14 - Failed - Agricultural Labor Relations - Initiative Statute.
*15 - Passed - Chiropractors, Board of Examiners. Licensing Requirements.

June 6, 1978

*1 - Failed - State School Building Aid Bond Law of 1978.
*2 - Passed - Clean Water and Water Conservation Bond Law of 1978.
*3 - Failed - Taxation Exemption - Alternative Energy Systems.
*4 - Passed - City Charters - Boards of Education.
*5 - Passed - Administrative Agencies.
*6 - Passed - Sheriffs.
*7 - Passed - Local Agencies - Insurance Pooling Arrangements.
*8 - Failed - Owner Occupied Dwellings - Tax Rate.
*9 - Passed - Interest Rate - Judgments.
*10 - Failed - Taxation - Rehabilitated Property.
*11 - Failed - Taxation - County Owned Real Property.
*12 - Failed - Constitutional Officers, Legislators and Judges Compensation.
*13 - Passed - Property Tax Limitation.

November 7, 1978

*1 - Passed - Veterans Bond Act of 1978.
*2 - Failed - Public Utilities Commission.
*3 - Passed - State Surplus Coastal Property.
*4 - Passed - Chiropractors. School Accreditation and License Revocation.
*5 - Failed - Regulation of Smoking.
*6 - Failed - School Employees. Homosexuality.
*7 - Passed - Murder. Penalty.
*8 - Passed - Post Disaster Taxation.

November 6, 1979

*1 - Passed - School Assignment and Transportation of Pupils.
*2 - Passed - Loan Interest Rates.
*3 - Passed - Property Taxation - Veteran's Exemption.
*4 - Passed - Limitation of Government Appropriations.