List of statewide bond propositions in California

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Article XVI of the California Constitution provides that the California State Legislature can't borrow (create a debt) more than $300,000 unless the legislature agrees to enter into the debt "...by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to each house of the Legislature and until, at a general election or at a direct primary, it shall have been submitted to the people and shall have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election."

Bond issues on the ballot in California

See also: Bond issues on the ballot

Californians cast ballots on 46 bond issues, totaling $200.536 billion in value, from January 1, 1993, through March 5, 2024. Voters approved 34 (74%) of the bond measures—a total of $163.054 billion. Nine of the measures were citizen initiatives, and six of the nine citizen-initiated bonds were approved. The legislature referred 37 bond measures to the ballot, and 28 of 37 legislative referrals were approved. The most common purposes of a bond measure between 1993 and 2024 were water infrastructure and housing, for which there were nine bond measures each.

Year	Measure	Amount	Primary purpose	Origin	Outcome
1993	Proposition 173	$185 million	Housing	Legislature	d
1994	Proposition 180	$2 billion	Parks	Initiative	d
1994	Proposition 181	$1 billion	Transportation	Legislature	d
1994	Proposition 1A	$2 billion	Disasters	Legislature	d
1994	Proposition 1B	$1 billion	K-12 education	Legislature	d
1994	Proposition 1C	$900 million	Higher education	Legislature	d
1996	Proposition 192	$2 billion	Disasters	Legislature	a
1996	Proposition 203	$3 billion	K-12 education	Legislature	a
1996	Proposition 204	$995 million	Environment; Water infrastructure	Legislature	a
1996	Proposition 205	$700 million	Jails	Legislature	d
1996	Proposition 206	$400 million	Veterans; Housing	Legislature	a
1998	Proposition 1A	$9.2 billion	K-12 education; Higher education	Legislature	a
2000	Proposition 12	$2.1 billion	Environment; Water infrastructure	Legislature	a
2000	Proposition 13	$1.97 billion	Water infrastructure	Legislature	a
2000	Proposition 14	$350 million	Libraries	Legislature	a
2000	Proposition 15	$220 million	Crime labs	Legislature	d
2000	Proposition 16	$50 million	Veterans; Housing	Legislature	a
2000	Proposition 32	$500 million	Veterans; Housing	Legislature	a
2002	Proposition 40	$2.6 billion	Parks; Environment	Legislature	a
2002	Proposition 41	$200 million	Voting systems	Legislature	a
2002	Proposition 46	$2.1 billion	Housing	Legislature	a
2002	Proposition 47	$13.05 billion	K-12 education	Legislature	a
2002	Proposition 50	$3.44 billion	Water infrastructure	Initiative	a
2004	Proposition 55	$12.3 billion	K-12 education; Higher education	Legislature	a
2004	Proposition 57	$15 billion	Deficit	Legislature	a
2004	Proposition 61	$750 million	Hospitals	Initiative	a
2006	Proposition 1B	$19.925 billion	Transportation	Legislature	a
2006	Proposition 1C	$2.85 billion	Housing	Legislature	a
2006	Proposition 1D	$10.416 billion	K-12 education; Higher education	Legislature	a
2006	Proposition 1E	$4.09 billion	Water infrastructure	Legislature	a
2006	Proposition 81	$600 million	Libraries	Legislature	d
2006	Proposition 84	$5.388 billion	Water infrastructure	Legislature	a
2008	Proposition 10	$5 billion	Energy	Initiative	d
2008	Proposition 12	$900 million	Veterans; Housing	Legislature	a
2008	Proposition 1A	$9.95 billion	Transportation	Legislature	a
2008	Proposition 3	$980 million	Hospitals	Initiative	a
2014	Proposition 1	$7.12 billion	Water infrastructure	Legislature	a
2014	Proposition 41	$600 million	Veterans; Housing	Legislature	a
2016	Proposition 51	$9 billion	K-12 education; Higher education	Initiative	a
2018	Proposition 1	$4 billion	Veterans; Housing	Legislature	a
2018	Proposition 3	$8.877 billion	Environment; Water infrastructure	Initiative	d
2018	Proposition 4	$1.5 billion	Hospitals	Initiative	a
2018	Proposition 68	$4 billion	Parks; Environment; Water infrastructure	Legislature	a
2020	Proposition 13	$15 billion	K-12 education; Higher education	Legislature	d
2020	Proposition 14	$5.5 billion	Stem cell research	Initiative	a
2024	Proposition 1	$6.38 billion	Healthcare; Veterans; Housing	Legislature	a

See also

• List of California ballot measures