Politics & Government

Contra Costa County Results for Props 28 and 29

Here are the results for Proposition 28 and 29 in the June 5 primary election in Contra Costa County.

Proposition 28 -- Limits on Legislators’ Terms in Office

  • Reduces the total amount of time a person may serve in the state legislature from 14 years to 12 years.
  • Allows a person to serve a total of 12 years either in the Assembly, the Senate, or a combination of both.
  • Applies only to legislators first elected after the measure is passed.
  • Provides that legislators elected before the measure is passed continue to be subject to existing term limits.

Fiscal Impact:

  • This measure would have no direct fiscal effect on state or local governments.

Arguments and rebuttals can be found here.

Proposition 29 -- Imposes Additional Tax on Cigarettes for Cancer Research

  • Imposes additional five cent tax on each cigarette distributed ($1.00 per pack), and an equivalent tax increase on other tobacco products, to fund cancer research and other specified purposes.
  • Requires tax revenues be deposited into a special fund to finance research and research facilities focused on detecting, preventing, treating, and curing cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other tobacco-related diseases, and to finance prevention programs.
  • Creates nine-member committee charged with administering the fund.
  • Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government 

Fiscal Impact:

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  • Net increase in cigarette excise tax revenues of about $735 million annually by 2013–14 for research into cancer and tobacco-related disease, and for tobacco prevention and cessation programs. These revenues would decline slightly each year thereafter.
  • Increase in excise tax revenues on other tobacco products of about $50 million annually, going mainly to existing health and tobacco prevention and cessation programs.
  • Net increase in state and local sales tax revenues of about $10 million to $20 million annually.
  • Unknown net impact on other long-term state and local government health care costs.

Arguments and rebuttals can be found here.

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Results from Contra Costa County Elections Division.

Proposition 28 and 29 data from California Secretary of State


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