2026 ballot guide
Explore 145 statewide ballot questions for November 3, 2026, with current-law baselines, AI-written summaries and official sources.
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- Measure 2 — Party primaries and ranked-choice voting
Would restore party primaries, end ranked-choice general elections and repeal or amend related campaign-finance disclosure rules. Governor and lieutenant governor candidates would run separately in the primary. It also changes related vacancy and special-election procedures.
- Measure 3 — Citizenship wording for voter qualifications
Would say that only U.S. citizens meeting the other qualifications may vote. The citizenship requirement already exists; the proposal changes its wording.
- Proposition 141 — Vehicle-mile charges and travel restrictions
Would prohibit taxes or fees based on vehicle miles and laws monitoring or limiting miles without consent, with exceptions for interstate commercial and government vehicles.
- Proposition 142 — Government preferences and required statements
Would expand those restrictions, including limits on required race-related statements, publicly funded education positions promoting racial preferences, differential school discipline and some admissions or hiring requests. The text includes legal-compliance and health-related exceptions.
- Proposition 144 — Identification and election administration
Would require government-issued identification when voting, including by mail; allow an option for local Election Day tabulation; restrict foreign-national campaign contributions; change the standard for judicial review; and require legislative funding for implementation.
- Proposition 316 — Local grocery taxes
Would bar new or increased local grocery taxes from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027, including retroactively. Later new or increased taxes would need voter approval and could not exceed 2%.
- Proposition 317 — Drug-cartel designation
Would designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations and direct the state homeland-security department to use its authority to address them. The definition covers specified trafficking, smuggling and terrorism activity; the designation would not support asylum claims.
- Proposition 318 — School athletics and facilities
Would extend sex-based team rules to all public and private schools and athletic associations, using the sex on an original birth certificate. It also regulates certain facilities and allows civil actions by affected athletes.
- Proposition 319 — Photo traffic enforcement
Would prohibit new photo-enforcement systems except contracts entered by December 31, 2026. Existing local systems would require voter approval at the next regular election and every ten years afterward.
- Proposition 320 — School spending on instruction
Would require specified large districts to spend at least 60% of operating expenses on direct instruction, using the Auditor General definition. It phases in adjustments and allows limited waivers; noncompliance could reduce Classroom Site Fund payments by 25%.
- Amendment 1 — Budget reserves
Would raise the maximum to 25% and require annual transfers of the lesser of $750 million or the amount needed to reach it, subject to exceptions. Withdrawals for critical needs remain possible.
- Amendment 2 — Agricultural equipment tax exemption
Would exempt qualifying equipment and other tangible property habitually on agricultural land and used for agriculture or agritourism, when owned by the landowner or leaseholder, from property tax.
- Amendment 3 — Homestead exemptions and assessment caps
Would raise the non-school homestead exemption to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028, then adjust for inflation, with delayed eligibility for some new residents. It would cut the non-homestead assessment-growth cap to 5%, provide procedures for larger local exemptions and restrict certain local property-tax uses.
- Amendment 1 — Conservation-use acreage
Would increase the maximum to 4,000 acres. The conservation-use covenant and consequences for breaking it would still apply.
- Amendment 2 — Nonpartisan probate-judge elections
Would require every probate-judge election to be nonpartisan. It changes how those elections are conducted, not the duties of the office.
- Amendment 3 — Next Generation 9-1-1 Fund
Would authorize a fund for expanding, maintaining and operating 9-1-1 systems, including Next Generation 9-1-1. The legislature could dedicate existing or reallocated revenues; unused money would remain in the fund.
- Public Measure 1 — Supermajority for state income-tax increases
Would require two-thirds of elected members in each legislative chamber to approve a new state income tax or an increase in an income-tax rate. Local option taxes are excluded, and challenges would have a one-year filing limit.
- Constitutional Amendment — Citizenship wording for voting
Would rewrite the qualification to say no person may vote unless a citizen meeting the stated conditions. The age, residency and moving-related provisions remain.
- Proposal 2026-1 — Constitutional convention
Would convene elected delegates in 2027 to draft a general revision of the constitution. Any resulting revision would return to voters for approval or rejection.
- Proposal 2026-2 — Utility and contractor campaign contributions
Would restrict contributions from regulated electric and gas utilities, certain government contractors and substantially connected people or organizations. It also expands disclosure rules to some communications that name candidates or questions without expressly advocating a vote, and covers online political communications.
- Constitutional Amendment — Permanent School Fund distributions
Would allow a distribution policy designed to support annual school payments while preserving the fund’s purchasing power over time. The legislature would set that policy and permitted administrative costs. The ballot question describes increased school funding without raising individual income or property taxes.
- LR19CA — Legislative term limits
Would increase the limit from two consecutive terms (eight years) to three consecutive terms (twelve years).
- Initiative 440 — Constitutional authority for online sports betting
Would permit online sports wagering in Nebraska through licensed racetrack operators. Initiative 441 supplies a related statutory framework; these are separate questions.
- Initiative 441 — Regulation of online sports betting
Would authorize and regulate online sports wagering through licensed racetrack operators and platform providers. Initiative 440 addresses the accompanying constitutional authority.
- Initiative 442 — Sex-based school sports teams
Would require covered teams to be designated male, female or coed based on sex and exclude male-sex students from female teams. It covers public schools and colleges and private schools competing against them, with federal-law and severability provisions.
- Question 6 — Constitutional abortion protection
Would establish a constitutional right to abortion performed by a qualified health-care professional before fetal viability, and afterward when necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.
- Question 7 — Voter identification
Would require photo identification for in-person voting and specified identifying information for mail voting, such as the last four digits of a driver’s-license or Social Security number.
- Question 1 — Register of probate
Would remove the register-of-probate office from the constitution. This does not abolish probate courts or their work.
- Amendment 1 — Written veto explanations
Would require written messages for whole or partial vetoes and let bills become law when the governor takes no action within the applicable period.
- Amendment 2 — School-election scheduling
Would remove that scheduling requirement so school elections could be held alongside partisan elections. It does not itself make school candidates partisan.
- Amendment 3 — University regent nominations
Would require regent nominating committees to supply candidates for nonstudent appointments and elected student bodies to nominate student regents. Nonstudent nominees could not have changed party registration during the preceding twelve months.
- Amendment 4 — Legislative compensation
Would authorize compensation tied to New Mexico’s median household income, in addition to per diem and mileage. Compensation would adjust with the median, and the prohibition on other allowances would be removed.
- Bond Question 1 — Senior facilities
Would authorize up to $21,582,213 in general obligation bonds for senior facilities, including eligible projects and equipment. Property taxes would support principal, interest and issuance costs.
- Bond Question 2 — Libraries
Would authorize up to $19,324,188 in general obligation bonds for libraries, including eligible projects and equipment. Property taxes would support principal, interest and issuance costs.
- Bond Question 3 — Higher education and special schools
Would authorize up to $352,225,379 in general obligation bonds for higher education and special schools, including eligible projects and equipment. Property taxes would support principal, interest and issuance costs.
- Income-tax amendment — Maximum state income-tax rate
Would lower the constitutional maximum income-tax rate to 3.5%. Actual tax rates would still be set by law within that ceiling.
- Property-tax amendment — Local property-tax levy limits
Would require the legislature to limit increases in local property-tax levies by general law, while allowing exceptions. The ballot amendment does not itself state a single numerical cap.
- Voter-ID amendment — Photo identification for all voting methods
Would extend the constitutional photo-ID requirement to all voters, rather than only those voting in person. Detailed procedures and exceptions remain matters of law.
- Issue 3 — Constitutional voter identification
Would require qualifying unexpired government photo ID for voting, with an alternative for sincere religious objections and a possible signature-plus-identifier alternative for voting outside a polling place.
- State Question 845 — Judicial Nominating Commission
Would use current districts for appointments, retain fifteen commissioners and change membership eligibility and term rules. At-large members would serve two-year terms; others six-year terms. It removes specified lawyer, family, party and successive-term restrictions.
- State Question 847 — Property assessments and senior limits
Would lower those caps to 4% and 1.75% from 2027. For homeowners age 65 or older, it replaces the current eligibility structure with income-based assessment limits: no increase at or below the area median income, then 0.35%, 0.7%, 1.05%, 1.4% or 1.75% as income rises.
- Proposal 3 — Collective bargaining
Would protect employees’ right to organize and bargain through a chosen representative over wages, hours, conditions and safety. It would also prohibit laws blocking agreements that require union membership as a condition of employment.
- Proposal 4 — Equal protection
Would prohibit the state from denying equal treatment because of race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or national origin. It expressly preserves measures intended to improve equality for groups historically subject to discrimination.
- Question 1 — Governor’s partial veto and taxes
Would prohibit using a partial veto to create, increase or authorize a tax or fee.
- Question 2 — Worship during emergencies
Would bar state and local government from closing places of worship or forbidding their gatherings during a declared emergency, including a public-health emergency.
- Question 3 — Government discrimination and preferences
Would prohibit government discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, education, contracting and administration.
- Proposition 1 — Housing bonds
Would authorize $11.25 billion in bonds: $10 billion for affordable housing, homebuyer assistance, infrastructure and related programs, plus $1.25 billion for veterans’ home loans. Veterans’ loan repayments would cover that portion; general revenues would repay the other borrowing.
- Proposition 2 — Rainy-day reserves and debt payments
Would raise the reserve target to 20%, increase deposits in strong revenue years and extend extra debt payments through 2040 while broadening their uses. Certain reserve deposits would count against the spending limit when withdrawn rather than when deposited.
- Proposition 3 — Make high-income tax rates permanent
Would make the temporary higher rates permanent. The 2025 thresholds start at about $371,000 for single filers,$742,000 for joint filers and $505,000 for heads of household, adjusted annually. Revenue supports education and makes other General Fund resources available for health and other services.
- Proposition 4 — Public campaign financing
Would let state and local governments create public campaign-financing programs. Candidates would need to meet eligibility and spending rules; education, transportation and public-safety funds could not be used. It also triples the maximum foreign-contribution fine. It does not itself create a financing program.
- Proposition 5 — Recall election vacancies
Would remove the replacement-candidate question. Vacancies would instead follow appointment or later-election procedures. The lieutenant governor would succeed a recalled governor, with a later election required for certain early-term vacancies; a recalled officer could run in that later election.
- Proposition 37 — Loans for buyers of new homes
Would authorize up to $25 billion in revenue bonds for loans covering up to 17% of a qualifying new home’s price. Buyers must contribute at least 3%, meet residency and income rules and occupy the home. Borrower payments cover bonds and administration. An optional builder pathway combines labor standards with different construction-defect rules.
- Proposition 38 — Immunology research bonds
Would authorize $8.4 billion in bonds, split between a qualifying UC-affiliated nonprofit institute and competitive grants. At least half supports cancer, heart-disease and Alzheimer’s research. It requires reporting, state revenue sharing and generally a 20% California discount on resulting treatments.
- Proposition 39 — Voter identification and citizenship verification
Would require government-issued ID in person and the last four digits of a designated government ID number on mail-ballot envelopes. It also requires free voter-ID cards, citizenship-verification efforts and reports, and regular compliance audits. Legislative action would supply implementation details.
- Proposition 40 — One-time wealth tax
Would tax certain taxpayers with covered assets over $1 billion at up to 5%, based on California residency on January 1,2026. Real estate and some pensions and retirement accounts are excluded. Ninety percent of revenue supports health care; the remainder supports food assistance, education and administration, outside specified constitutional budget requirements.
- Proposition 41 — Special-tax audits and spending limits
Would prohibit new state taxes that exclude revenue from the spending limit. It requires pre-election audits after a citizen tax proposal reaches 25% of required signatures, plus four-year audits of programs receiving new or increased special taxes enacted after January 1,2026.
- Proposition 42 — Restrictions on personal-property and retroactive taxes
Would bar new state taxes on ownership of personal property, including financial assets, and certain taxes based on conduct or status predating their effective date. The restrictions apply to taxes enacted or taking effect from January 1,2026.
- Proposition 43 — Approval threshold for local special-tax initiatives
Would require two-thirds approval for local special taxes proposed through voter petitions, including new taxes, increases and extensions. It would apply to measures approved after January 1,2027.
- Proposition 44 — Community-clinic spending requirements
Would require covered nonprofit federally qualified health centers to spend 90% of revenue on program services advancing their charitable purpose. Shortfalls trigger monetary penalties, potentially refunded after compliance within five years. It allows exceptional waivers, state guidance and criminal charges for false reporting or artificial inflation of the ratio.
- Proposition 45 — Environmental review of designated projects
Would offer new review procedures for designated housing, infrastructure, health, education, clean-energy and other projects. It imposes tighter deadlines, changes alternative analysis and tribal consultation, limits comment periods and narrows court review and remedies. Applicants could choose the new or existing process.
- Amendment 81 — Immigration notifications after criminal charges
Would require reasonable efforts to determine lawful presence after a violent-crime charge, or any charge against someone with a prior felony. If lawful presence cannot be confirmed, covered officials must notify federal homeland-security authorities within 72 hours. The trigger is a charge, not a conviction.
- Amendment 82 — Constitutional right to natural gas
Would protect consumers’ right to buy natural gas for cooking or heating and distributors’ and utilities’ right to sell it for homes and businesses. The effect on existing regulations would depend on interpretation.
- Amendment 83 — Constitutional right to hunt and fish
Would create a constitutional right to hunt and fish by traditional methods and make these preferred wildlife-management tools. It excludes nongame and endangered species and federally prohibited hunting, preserves private-property rules, and allows regulation for science-based conservation, public safety and future opportunities.
- Amendment 84 — Identification numbers on mail ballots
Would require a signature plus the last four digits of a Social Security or qualifying Colorado ID number for federal and statewide mail ballots. Missing or mismatched information must be corrected within eight days after Election Day, with alternative ID options. In-person ID rules would not change.
- Amendment 85 — Plain-language ballot titles
Would require state and local ballot titles to be written at no more than an eighth-grade reading level. Laws requiring wording that interferes with plain language could not apply to citizen initiatives. The measure does not designate who decides compliance.
- Amendment 86 — Off-cycle congressional redistricting
Would require the independent congressional commission and state Supreme Court to approve off-cycle map changes after at least three public hearings. Such changes could not intentionally favor a party or unnecessarily divide communities of interest.
- Amendment 87 — Graduated income tax
Would replace the flat rate with six marginal brackets from 3.7% to 8.4%, starting in 2027. Additional revenue would supplement education, health and early-childhood programs and be exempt from TABOR. Brackets would not be inflation-indexed; principal-residence sale income retains 4.4% treatment.
- Proposition NN — Retain revenue for education and other purposes
Would permit retention up to a new limit linked to public-school spending. After existing property-tax reimbursements, money would support K–12 education and children’s programs for ten years; later it could also support other legislative priorities. Spending reports and audits are required.
- Proposition 132 — Fentanyl offense penalties
Would make possession of any amount of covered fentanyl substances a felony and require 8–32 years for distribution. It limits mitigating-factor and Good Samaritan reductions for distribution. Possession below one gram could still be reduced after successful required treatment.
- Proposition 133 — Penalties for trafficking a minor
Would require life without parole for child sex trafficking and add buying sexual activity with a minor to the covered acts. Existing protections for trafficking victims remain.
- Proposition 134 — Sex-based school and college sports
Would designate school-based teams male, female or mixed and assign participation by the measure’s definition of biological sex. Females could join male teams if no female equivalent exists. Schools would set verification policies; the proposal also bars penalties for designating female-only teams.
- Proposition 135 — Restrictions on certain surgeries for minors
Would prohibit surgery altering a minor’s sex characteristics when performed in response to the minor’s perception of sex or gender, and prohibit public or insurance payment. Exceptions include circumcision and specified sex-development or acquired physical conditions. Nonsurgical treatments are outside this ban.
- Proposition 136 — Income-tax rate limit
Would set 4.4% as the statutory maximum from 2027. It does not reduce the current rate or change the process by which voters could approve future increases.
- Proposition 137 — Sporting-goods sales tax for conservation
Would direct that existing revenue to conservation, wildfire mitigation, watershed restoration and outdoor programs without raising the tax rate. The retained amount would be exempt from TABOR, with adjustments to protect specified family tax credits.
- Question 1 — Time for judicial confirmations
Would extend the period to 60 days for appointments made between April 1 and December 31, when the Senate is out of regular session or nearing adjournment.
- Question 2 — RISE infrastructure bonds
Would direct the legislature to authorize counties to issue Resilient Infrastructure for Shelter and Equity bonds for designated housing-related public improvements. Repayment would come solely from growth in property-tax revenue within designated districts, without increasing rates, and the bonds would be excluded from county debt limits.
- HJR 4 — Legislative authority over drug legalization
Would give only the legislature authority to legalize marijuana, narcotics or other psychoactive substances, removing citizen initiatives as a route for those changes. It does not itself legalize or newly prohibit a particular substance.
- HJR 6 — English as the official language
Would designate English as the official language in the constitution and require its use in public proceedings, documents, instruction and other acts of public institutions, except where federal law requires otherwise.
- Proposition 1 — Reproductive freedom and privacy
Would protect private reproductive decisions, including abortion before viability and afterward in medical emergencies involving life or serious physical-health risks. It protects lawful assistance and providers from penalties, while preserving malpractice claims and conscience protections. It does not create a state duty to pay for care.
- HB 932 advisory question — Official state gun preference
Asks voters to choose one of six firearms as their preferred official state gun. The result is advisory: a future legislature would need to act to make a designation.
- CI-132 — Nonpartisan judicial elections
Would place a requirement that judicial elections remain nonpartisan in the constitution.
- CI-133 — Initiative and referendum rights
Would protect those powers against unjustified government burdens, require petition approval and related legal review within 90 days, protect signature gathering and minor technical defects, permit timely withdrawals, and prohibit government resources supporting or opposing ballot issues. Qualification challenges must end before ballots are finalized.
- I-194 — Political spending by corporations and other entities
Would remove political-spending authority from covered corporations, nonprofits, trusts and other entities operating in Montana. Violations would forfeit state-conferred privileges; reinstatement requires returning the spending and meeting compliance conditions. Individuals, political committees, public bodies and qualifying news or editorial activity are excepted.
- Measure 1 — Approval threshold for constitutional amendments
Would require 60% approval for constitutional amendments, whether proposed by petition or by the legislature, instead of a simple majority.
- Measure 2 — School meals without charges to families
Would require public schools, including charters, to provide breakfast and lunch free to every enrolled student each school day. Nonpublic and tribal schools could participate. Schools must maximize federal reimbursement; the state pays the balance at specified rates, using Legacy Earnings Fund money if no other source is identified.
- Amendment I — Federal funding condition for Medicaid expansion
Would condition the constitutional expansion requirement on federal support remaining at least 90%. If the federal share fell below 90%, the constitutional mandate would end.
- Amendment J — Citizenship wording for voting
Would add noncitizens to the constitution’s explicit list of people disqualified from voting, alongside existing grounds.
- Amendment K — Unclaimed-property trust fund
Would deposit net unclaimed-property receipts into a constitutional trust after claims, expenses and legally authorized General Fund deposits. Investment-income distributions begin July 1,2027. Principal or income may also be used for owners’ claims, legally required returns or appropriations approved by three-fourths of each legislative chamber.
- Amendment L — Sixty-percent requirement for constitutional changes
Would raise the approval requirement for future constitutional amendments and revisions to 60%.
- Amendment A — Publication of proposed constitutional amendments
Would replace the newspaper requirement with publication for 60 calendar days before the election in the manner specified by statute. The legislature could set the publication method through ordinary law.
- Amendment B — Threshold for tax-related statewide initiatives
Would require 60% approval for statewide citizen initiatives creating a tax, expanding taxable items or transactions, increasing a rate, or reducing a property-tax rate less than current law would. It applies to votes after November 1,2026 and does not raise the threshold for all initiatives.
- IL26-001 — Parent and guardian rights in public schools
Would restore the 2024 statute. It shortens the records deadline to ten business days, broadens record access and restores medical-service notifications. It removes several 2025 provisions from this statute, including specified nondiscrimination, abuse-notice, enrollment, language-access and special-education language; rights independently protected by other laws are not automatically repealed.
- IL26-638 — Sex verification for girls’ school sports
Would prohibit students defined as biologically male from female-only interschool sports. Students joining female-only teams or events must provide a health-care-provider form verifying sex through specified biological criteria. It covers public K–12 schools and participating private schools.
- IP26-645 — Repeal the high-income tax and restrict income-based taxes
Would repeal that tax before collections begin and prohibit state and local taxes on individual income, its receipt or amounts measured by it. Companion non-income-tax credits, exemptions and deductions remain. The high-income tax is the only existing tax explicitly named for repeal.
- Proposition 1 — Homeowner property-tax exemption
Would exempt 50% of the assessed value of a qualifying primary-residence structure. Owners must have lived in Wyoming at least a year and occupied the home for six months in the prior tax year. An initial sworn claim and annual eligibility confirmation are required; one exemption per owner and property is allowed.
- Amendment 1 — Lieutenant-governor vacancies and legislative administration
Would require an election for the remaining term when a lieutenant-governor vacancy occurs more than 60 days before the next general election for state officers. It would let the legislature set certain officers’ pay by joint resolution and require a legislative officer’s approval for members’ travel spending.
- Amendment 2 — Merging neighboring county school systems
Would let neighboring county boards agree to combine systems after a published state impact study. A written protest by at least 25% of qualified voters in any affected system would trigger a vote requiring approval in each affected county and overall.
- Amendment 3 — School pledge and student-led prayer policies
Would require public K–12 schools to offer the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each school day and boards to authorize student-initiated, student-led prayer. Students could decline either activity based on their beliefs; prayer participation could not be required.
- Amendment 4 — Weekly national anthem in schools
Would require local boards to arrange a broadcast of the anthem’s first stanza at least weekly, or a school-approved performance using the Library of Congress version.
- Issue 1 — Citizenship wording for voting
Would state explicitly that only qualified U.S. citizens may vote, and that people who do not meet constitutional voter qualifications may not vote in state or local elections.
- Issue 2 — Right to keep and bear arms
Would expressly extend that protection to lawful hunting, recreation and other lawful purposes, including ammunition, firearm accessories and components, and describe it as a fundamental individual right.
- Issue 3 — Economic-development districts and financing
Would authorize economic-development programs, public loans and grants, and districts with bond-financing powers. Property within a district would be exempt from other taxes but remain subject to district taxes and charges. District bonds would receive specified exemptions from existing debt restrictions; implementing legislation would be required.
- Issue 4 — Water and pollution-control bonds
Would authorize up to $500 million in general-obligation bonds for water, waste, pollution-control, drainage, irrigation, flood-control and aquatic-resource projects. Irrigation bonds would be capped at $165 million, and issuance generally at $60 million per two-year period unless legislators approve more.
- Public Question 1 — Bail eligibility for additional offenses
Would extend denial of bail to other offenses when that evidentiary condition is met and the state proves, by clear and convincing evidence, that release conditions cannot reasonably protect another person or the community.
- Public Question 2 — City and town judges’ residency
Would allow a city or town judge to live anywhere in the court’s county or in the closest bordering Indiana county, measured from the city or town boundary to the county line.
- Constitutional Amendment 1 — Limits on pardons around gubernatorial elections
Would prohibit pardons, reprieves and sentence commutations from 60 days before a gubernatorial election through the fifth Tuesday afterward. The ballot question describes the endpoint as inauguration; the proposed constitutional text specifies the fifth Tuesday.
- Amendment 1 — Moving a surviving spouse’s veterans exemption
Would allow one transfer to a later qualifying homestead, limited to the additional exemption claimed on the previous home in its last eligible year.
- Amendment 2 — Preserving unused property-tax rate authority
Would let a taxing authority keep charging a lower rate without permanently losing its authority to return to a prior reassessment’s authorized maximum. This preserves future rate-setting authority; it does not order an immediate increase.
- Amendment 3 — Post-conviction bail for offenses against children
Would add an exception denying post-conviction bail to people convicted of an aggravated offense, as defined in state law, committed against a minor.
- Amendment 4 — Lifetime limit on election as governor
Would instead bar someone who has served more than one and a half terms as governor from election to any future term, making the restriction a lifetime limit.
- Amendment 5 — Which pension liabilities receive one-time funding
Would let a receiving retirement system apply that money to any unfunded accrued liability. The minimum allocation to retirement systems would remain.
- Amendment 6 — Optional additional senior homestead exemptions
Would let parishes and municipalities, with local voter approval, add exemptions for qualifying owners age 65 or older. Additional exempt assessed value would rise from $6,000 at ages 65–68 to $30,000 at age 81 or older. Limited surviving-spouse eligibility would apply.
- Amendment 7 — Public funding for private water service lines
Would add authority to use local public funds to identify, inventory, remove or replace drinking-water service lines on customers’ property when covered by the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Improvements or later versions.
- Amendment 8 — Property taking by foreign adversaries
Would prohibit a foreign adversary or its agent from expropriating property, adding that specific constitutional restriction.
- Amendment 9 — Income limit for special property assessments
Would raise the qualifying income ceiling to $150,000 starting in 2027, with inflation adjustments from 2028. Other eligibility categories remain. Taxing authorities would absorb resulting revenue reductions under the stated rules.
- Amendment 10 — Tax exemptions for rehabilitated properties
Would authorize the exemption and require legislators to define eligible property, set its duration and conditions, and establish local administration procedures.
- Amendment 3 — Reproductive rights and care for minors
Would replace that amendment with abortion restrictions allowing care for medical emergencies, fatal fetal anomalies, and rape or incest within twelve weeks. It also adds provider and consent rules and a constitutional ban on gender-transition procedures for minors, with specified medical exceptions.
- Amendment 6 — Initiative and referendum protections
Would preserve current signature and statewide-majority rules, make initiative and referendum powers a fundamental right, and limit legislative interference. Changes to voter-initiated laws would require referral to voters backed by at least 80% of each legislative chamber.
- Amendment 7 — Public endowment and possible tax replacement
Would create a protected endowment intended eventually to replace state taxes with investment earnings. Withdrawals would depend on sufficient earnings and be capped at 3% of the fund’s five-year average value. Lawmakers could restore revenue sources if the fund failed to meet its obligations.
- Amendment 8 — Constitutional status of elected sheriffs
Would place four-year sheriff elections and specified duties in the constitution for covered counties, with exceptions for specified charter counties and a city outside a county. Covered sheriffs could be removed only through a quo warranto court proceeding initiated by the attorney general.
- Proposition A — Congressional district boundaries
Would approve House Bill 1 from the 2025 second extraordinary session and its new congressional districts. Rejection would leave the 2022 boundaries in place, according to the secretary of state’s certified explanation.
- Amendment 1 — Bail for additional serious offenses
Would expand that exception to terrorism, second-degree murder, aggravated rape, aggravated rape of a child, grave torture and offenses requiring at least 85% of the sentence under law as of November 3, 2026. Courts would have to record reasons for bail decisions in these cases.
- Amendment 2 — Ban on a state property tax
Would prohibit the legislature from levying or authorizing a state property tax on real, personal or mixed property. It would not eliminate local property taxes.
- Amendment 3 — Crime victims’ rights
Would replace the section with thirteen rights, expanding parole participation, notice and consideration of victims’ safety. Some rights require a request. Victims could assert these rights under legislative procedures, while due process, prosecutorial powers and court authority remain protected.
- Amendment 1 — Citizenship wording for voting
Would expressly limit voting to U.S. citizens who are also West Virginia citizens, adding the federal citizenship requirement to the constitution.
- Question 1 — Public access to legislative and governor records
Would apply the public-records law to most records held by the Legislature and governor’s office. Exceptions would cover policy-development records and certain constituent requests for help with government services.
- Question 2 — Collective bargaining for public counsel staff
Would authorize CPCS employees to organize and bargain collectively. After reaching an agreement, CPCS would have to request the appropriation needed to fund it from the governor.
- Question 3 — All-party top-two primaries
Would put all candidates on one state-primary ballot, open to every voter. Only the two highest vote-getters would advance. Governor and lieutenant governor candidates would run together in the primary; party recognition would use a 3% statewide-primary vote test.
- Question 4 — Election Day voter registration
Would let eligible residents register or update their address at their precinct on Election Day with residency evidence and a sworn eligibility statement. Those missing residency evidence could cast a provisional ballot and supply it by the applicable deadline. Existing registrants could not switch party affiliation that day.
- Question 5 — State revenue limit and taxpayer refunds
Would instead start with actual net revenue collected the previous year and adjust it by average Massachusetts wage and salary growth over three years. It would include the high-income surtax in the calculation and refund revenue above the resulting limit the next year.
- Question 6 — Nature for All conservation fund
Would establish a conservation fund and 15-member board. Subject to legislative appropriation and specified transit and school-fund exclusions, it would receive half of eligible sporting-goods, recreational-vehicle and golf-course taxes in its first year and all afterward. Eligible uses include land, water, parks and outdoor access.
- Question 7 — Single-family homes on smaller lots
Would allow a single-family home on a residentially zoned lot of at least 5,000 square feet with 50 feet of frontage and access to public water and sewer. Municipalities could still impose reasonable rules on height, setbacks, open space, parking and short-term rentals.
- Question 8 — Recreational marijuana retail repeal
Would repeal adult recreational retail legalization, regulation and taxation while retaining medical marijuana regulation. Limited adult possession and gifting would remain permitted, with revised possession penalties. Licensed recreational businesses could seek expedited medical licenses and transfer inventory to medical dispensaries.
- Question 9 — Keep or repeal the 2024 firearms law
Asks whether to retain the 2024 law. A yes vote keeps its expanded firearm rules; a no vote repeals that law. Repeal would not eliminate all Massachusetts firearms regulation.
- Question 1 — State employee agreements and the budget
Would require the governor’s proposed budget to include money for wages, hours, benefits and other terms of state-employee collective bargaining agreements, including terms determined by neutral arbitration. Related statutory arbitration changes are contingent on approval; appropriations still require legislative action.
- Question 2 — Temporary judicial-disability commission members
Would allow the chair to recall eligible former commission members temporarily. At the chair’s request, the governor could appoint eligible substitutes or extend a current member’s term until a permanent replacement arrives.
- Question 3 — Congressional redistricting criteria and court review
Would specify that the Maryland constitution supplies no boundary criteria for congressional districts, while retaining the relevant criteria for state legislative districts. It would also let the legislature give the state Supreme Court original jurisdiction over congressional redistricting plans.
- Question 1 — Higher education facilities
Would authorize $165 million for a University of Rhode Island health building, $50 million for Rhode Island College’s Adams Library and $60 million for a Community College of Rhode Island workforce center.
- Question 2 — Housing and homeownership
Would finance affordable and accessible housing, including construction, renovation, acquisition and infrastructure. At least $25 million would support homes intended for ownership; up to $10 million could support public housing.
- Question 3 — Economic development
Would allocate $55 million to site acquisition, preparation and infrastructure, and $45 million to infrastructure for ocean, defense, life-science, data and related industries.
- Question 4 — Cultural economy
Would allocate $45 million to a State History Center in Providence and $5 million to historic-preservation grants for public and nonprofit facilities.
- Question 5 — Environment and recreation
Would fund brownfield cleanup, park and recreation improvements, marine infrastructure, flood and climate resilience, watershed restoration, farmland and open-space protection. The largest allocation is $25 million for resilient infrastructure.
- Question 1 — Constitutional reproductive freedom
Would establish a fundamental right covering reproductive decisions and protect people receiving or voluntarily assisting that care. Restrictions would need a narrowly defined compelling health interest. Third-trimester abortion regulation would remain possible, with exceptions for the patient’s life or physical or mental health and for a nonviable fetus.
- Question 2 — Marriage equality in the constitution
Would remove the ban and require Virginia to issue licenses for, recognize and equally treat lawful marriages between two adults regardless of their sex, gender or race.
- Question 3 — Voting rights after incarceration
Would establish a fundamental right to vote for qualified residents, bar voting during incarceration for a felony, and automatically restore political rights after release. It would narrow incapacity-based disqualification to a court finding that the person cannot understand voting.
About this dataset
AI-written explanations checked against official ballot language and voter guides. Headings are editorial descriptions. Full legal wording is available through the official source links. Missing fiscal estimates, dates and thresholds remain explicitly unverified.
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Fields: current-law baseline, AI explanation, voting choices and effects, official sources, and review status. Dataset version: 0732b6ef9371db5f7cab.