Volume 44, Issue 5. Today is
Proposition two oh what?
Arizona’s general election voting day is Nov. 7. The polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The required forms of identification are a valid Arizona driver’s license, valid Arizona non-operating identification card, a valid federal, state or local government issued identification card, and a tribal enrollment card. A valid I.D. is any type of identification that hasn’t expired.
Propostion 100 – Proposes that allowing people who are charged with a crime to post bail unless the crime is a capital offense, sexual assault or misconduct with a minor, a felony where the person is an immediate danger to the community or the person who commits a felony is an illegal alien.
Proposition 101 - Limits the amount of the increase in taxes per year on personal property such as real estate or cars.
Proposition 102 - Prohibits a person who wins a civil lawsuit from receiving damages from the court if the person is an illegal alien.
Proposition 103 – Proposes that having English as the state’s official language. Having it as an official language would entail all official actions of the government to be conducted in English. The exceptions for this law are when teaching languages other than English, in actions to protect public health and safety and to protect the rights of crime victims and criminal defendants, in providing assistance to the hearing impaired or to illiterate persons and actions necessary for tourism, commerce and international trade.
Proposition 104 - Would amend the Arizona Constitution to allow incorporated cities and towns to include debt for the acquisition and development of public safety, law enforcement, fire and emergency facilities and streets and transportation facilities in the 20 percent debt limit, upon voter approval.
By voting yes on Prop 105, it would preserve the goal of providing the highest and best use and highest and best bid while providing for up to 500,000 acres of rural and urban conservation lands and the preservation of game lands.
Proposition 106 - Would amend the Arizona constitution to create a new seven member Board of Trustees appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the State Senate, to plan and dispose of all state trust lands. The majority of the trustees must have involvement with public schools, teaching or educational advocacy. The trustees would oversee and manage any actions dealing with the state trust lands.
Proposition 107 - Would make the marriage between two people of the same sex illegal. It supports that only a marriage between a man and a woman will be recognized by the state.
Proposition 200 - Would establish a $1 million prize to be awarded to a randomly selected person who voted in the primary or general election. All the people that vote will be entered into a drawing for the prize money. The prize money is funded by the unclaimed lottery winning money.
Proposition 201 - Would prohibit smoking in public places and places of employment except retail tobacco stores, veterans and fraternal clubs when they aren’t open to the public, hotel rooms designated as smoking rooms and outdoor patios. This proposition would increase the state tax on cigarettes from $1.18 to $1.20 per pack. Taxes on cigars and other tobacco products will not be raised.
Proposition 202 - Would establish a state minimum wage law and raise the minimum wage to $6.75 per hour due to higher costs of living.
Proposition 203 - Would create an Early Childhood Development and Health Fund consisting of revenues generating from an increase of state taxes on tobacco products, donations and state appropriations. The ECDHF would prescribe requirements for programs and grants that increase the quality of and access to early childhood development and health services for children up to five years old and their families.
Proposition 204 - Would make it a class one misdemeanor if a pregnant pig was tied up or confined or a calf raised for veal on a farm for all or the majority of the day in a manner that prevents them from lying down and fully extending its legs or turning around freely.
Proposition 205 would require every state, county and local election to be mail in ballots only while keeping the minimal amount of polling places to be open. The ballot would be mail not fewer than 15 days before the election along with a pre-paid stamped envelope for the return of the voter ballot.
Proposition 206 - Would prohibit smoking in public places and places of employment except bars, parts of restaurants, hotels and other establishments that sell alcohol, outdoor patios, retail tobacco shops, veteran and fraternal clubs, and designated smoking only hotel rooms.
Proposition 207 - About the government seizing property for public use. This proposition would limit the use of public use so it would make it harder for the government to seize a person’s property. The proposition also states that the property owner shall receive compensation for the full value of the property.
Proposition 300 - Would make it so illegal immigrants couldn’t participate in adult education class, wouldn’t be classified as an in-state resident when it comes to tuition costs and wouldn’t be eligible for waivers, grants and financial aid.
Proposition 301 - Would amend the current law so that a person who is convicted for the first or second time of possession or use of methamphetamine would be sentenced to a term in prison. The current law states that anyone who is convicted would be sentenced to probation and would not have to spend a term in jail. Currently after the third offense the person is sentenced to jail.
Proposition 302 - Would raise state legislators’ salaries from $24,000 per year to $36,000 per year.