Breaking down the May 19 ballot propositions
•Proposition 1A: Places spending restrictions on politicians to help build a rainy day fund. A $16-billion tax increase would be levied over a period of two years. •Proposition 1B: Requires state to repay public education $9.3 billion from the reserves established under Proposition 1A. 1B will only take affect if 1A passes. •Proposition 1C: Lottery Modernization Act to promote better marketing and bigger payouts in an effort to further boost the lottery's popularity. IF 1C passes, the state would be allowed to borrow $5 billion against future lottery revenues. •Proposition 1D: In 1998, voters passed a law earmarking tobacco taxes for preschool and healthcare programs to help low-income children. Prop. 1D would take $1.4 billion of those monies and use them in other areas of the state budget. •Proposition 1E: Asks voters to take money from Prop. 63, a measure passed in 2004 that collects an annual income tax surcharge for mental health programs. If 1E passes, about $450 million of Prop. 63 money will be redirected to fill holes in the budget. •Proposition 1F: Lets voters decide whether elected officials should receive pay raises in years when the state runs a budget deficit.
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