Did prop 86 pass in California?
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Failed 3,047,393 / 47.8% Yes votes ...... 3,332,466 / 52.2% No votes
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I believe it has currently passed the House of Representatives, where it was introduced, and sent onto the Senate for passage there, where a different version was passed.\n\nThe House must now reconsider and hold another vote since U.S. law requires an identical version of the law to be passed in both houses of Congress before being submitted to the President for official approval.\n\nChances are it will pass into law, though, since there is widespread support for tougher measures to prevent illegal immigration both in Congress, and in the American public in general.  If you are interested in learning more about this bill, you can always check with the Justice for Immigrants website, which has a detailed summary of the bill, as well as the complete time-table of its progress through Congress, the roll call of who voted for and against it, etc... and you can always contact your local Representative or Senator to express concern.  The HR and Senate websites contain complete contact information for all members of Congress, who usually do respond to the concerns of their constituents since the very nature of their job requires members of Congress to be accountable to the public they were elected to represent.
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Good question.  The text of the proposition itself does not make any mention of the specific percentage of California state revenues that must go to education (the act provides for monies to go to school districts and community college districts).  Rather, there is a formula:\n\n"SECTION 8. School Funding Priority\n\n(a) From all state revenues there shall first be set apart the monies to be applied by the state for support of the public school system and public institutions of higher education.\n\n(b) Commencing with the 1988-89 fiscal year, the monies to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts shall be not less than the greater of:\n\n(1) The amount which, as a percentage of the State General Fund revenues which may be appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB, equals the percentage of such State General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986-87; or\n\n(2) The amount required to ensure that the total allocations to school districts and community college districts from the State General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB and allocated local proceeds of taxes shall not be less than the total amount from these sources in the prior year, adjusted for increases in enrollment, and adjusted for changes in the cost of living pursuant to the provisions of Article XIIIB.\n\n(c) The provisions of subdivision (b) of this Section may be suspended for one year by the enactment of an urgency statute pursuant to Section 8 of Article IV, provided that no urgency statute enacted under this subdivision, may be made part of or included within any bill enacted pursuant to Section 12 of Article IV."\n\nA look at newspaper articles published since the passage of Proposition 98 indicate that the percentage fluctuates with state revenue (e.g. in 1997 then Governor Pete Wilson maintained that Proposition 98 mandated that 60% of all spending go to schools -- see San Jose Mercury, 1/13/97).  Also, in an editorial on 4/28/97 the L.A. Daily News highlights how school spending can decline precipitously during economic downturns.
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no way! how about in the california area?
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I've been watching MSNBC all night, and about an hour or two ago they mentioned in passing that the marijuana measure had failed.  I don't have any actual numbers, but they made it sound like it wasn't terribly close.  55-45 or worse maybe?   In any case, it failed.\n\nEDIT:\n\nIt's failing at 56-44.  I verified this through the MSNBC website.
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okay anyone who has lived in California can get it. we take on the role of a California person who is living out of state. i did it for long time. each person who grows up out there has to use it to shield themselves from the harsh reality of not being there so we act and this is the California act and it stay with you until you move back home again\nwe tell our friends that were moving back we try to talk girls into moving back with us we try everything but somehow were still not there yet so it ends up the California dream act it's is dreadfully painful too i'm leaving for cal in the spring again
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OC is much safer than LA, but down here in San Diego county traffic and congestion are quickly becoming just like LA!  Ironically, the freeways were remarkably free-flowing on May 1st!
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I have a friend who used to live in California...\n\nI looked at his Government and Ethics textbook once, and that figure was around 95% or so! O_O
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A little more than 8,000,000 votes were cast in California on Nov. 7, 2006
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April 20th is all about the Senate Bill (S.B.) in California #187, regarding the use and posession of marijuana for medical (and other) purposes. \n\nThe bill got held up in the senate for quite some time and was finally rejected and then the bill was renamed S.B. 420\n\nIn protest, many people smoke.\n\n--- There are other reasons for 4/20.. I guess enough people heard about it and just decided to have an unofficial holiday\n\nBut i thank them.
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SO FAR I HAVE ONLY HEARD THAT CALIFORNIA HAS THIS LAW
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I found that Breath's website has the most information regarding the smoking laws in CA:\n\nhttp://www.smokefreeworld.com/calif.shtml
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S.82 was not passed by the Senate. It has been referred to the Senate subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia. If that committee votes to send it to be voted on by the whole body, they will vote, and if it passes there, will be sent to the House to be voted on, and then sent to the President to be signed.\n\nPerhaps you are thinking of some other bill. You can search for bills at the site below.
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None. Alphabetically, the list goes right from Arkansas to California.
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Yes, California and Oregon
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If it is illegal a lot of classrooms in California are breaking the law.  I have been teaching for 4 years half of the classrooms I have been in have a sink (I rotate so we are talking about a lot of classrooms).
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Don't know. But they were in California where it started. Check their website!