- Source: 2024 United States ballot measures
The following is a list of ballot measures, whether initiated by legislators or citizens, which have been certified to appear on various states' ballots during the 2024 United States elections as of September 6, 2024.
Results
Elections that have been certified or unanimously projected will be shown here.
By topic
Included in this section is any ballot measure that has either been certified for the ballot or has passed at least one house in the legislature.
= Abortion
=As of September 11, 2024, 10 states have certified a referendum on abortion for the 2024 United States elections. This is the most for a single election cycle on record. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, every pro-abortion rights ballot measure has passed, and every ban by popular referendum has failed, even in more conservative states such as Kentucky.
= Voting
== Marijuana
== Law and crime
== Labor
== LGBT rights
=Alabama
= March 5
=Legislatively-referred amendment: would exempt locally-focused bills, including constitutional amendments, from the budget isolation resolution process. This amendment did not pass.
= November 5
=Legislatively-referred amendment: would let the Franklin County Board of Education be able to sell, manage, lease land or natural resources from lands in the county schools system within Walker and Fayette counties.
Alaska
Indirect initiated state statute: This amendment would require that the minimum be increased to $15 per hour by July 1, 2027, give employees the ability to receive up to 56 hours of paid sick leave a year if their employer has 15 employees or more, and if their employer has less than 15 employees they can get up to 40 hours of paid sick leave. Also bars employers from taking action against employees who refuse to attend employer sponsored meetings regarding religious or political matters.
Indirect initiated state statue: Would have repealed the ranked choice voting system that was started in 2020.
Arizona
Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 133, a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would require a partisan primary election for partisan offices.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 134, creates a constitutional signature distribution requirement for citizen-initiated ballot measures based on state legislative districts raising the requirement from 10% of voters to 15%.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 135, would allow the legislature to terminate a state of emergency or alter the emergency powers of the governor during the emergency; requires emergencies declared by the governor to terminate automatically in 30 days unless extended by legislative approval.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 136, Would provide challenges to an initiative measure or constitutional amendment after the filing of the measure with the Secretary of State.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 137, Would end term limits for state supreme court justices and superior court judge and replace it with terms of good behavior through a judicial review commission.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 138, Allows tipped workers to be paid 25% less per hour than the minimum wage if any tips received by the employee were not less than the minimum wage plus $2 for all hours worked.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Proposition 139, would establish a state constitutional right to abortion.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Proposition 140, would require ranked-choice voting to be used in general elections, and, contradicting Proposition 133, create nonpartisan blanket primaries.
Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 311, establishes a $20 fee on every conviction for a criminal offense, which would go to a $250,000 benefit to the family of a first responder killed in the line of duty.
Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 313, Provides life imprisonment for an individual who is convicted of sex trafficking of a child.
Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 314, Authorise state and local police to arrest noncitizens who cross the border unlawfully, allows state judges to order deportations, require the use of the e-verify program for some public governmental programs and employment eligibility purposes, and make the sale of fentanyl a Class 2 felony if a person knowingly sells fentanyl resulting in the death of another person.
Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 315, Prohibits proposed rule from becoming effective if that rule is estimated to increase regulatory costs by more than $500,000 within five years after implementation, until the legislature enacts legislation ratifying the proposed rule.
Arkansas
Citizen-initiated amendment: Repeals the authorisation for a casino license in Pope County and require countywide voter approval for any new casino licenses.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows state lottery proceeds to fund scholarships and grants for vocational and technical colleges.
California
= March
=Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 1, Changes the funding structure and name of the Mental Health Services Act, issues bonds for veteran housing and homeless projects. This amendment passed.
= November
=Bond Issue: Would issue $10 billion in bonds to fund construction and modernisation of public education facilities.
Citizen-initiated statute: Increases minimum wage to $18 by 2026
Legislatively-referred amendment: lowers vote threshold from 66.67% to 55% for local special taxes and bond measures to fund housing projects
Citizen-initiated statute: Repeals the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act; removes ability of state to limit local rent control
Legislatively-referred amendment: Repeals Proposition 8 and establish a right to marry regardless of sex
Citizen-initiated amendment: would all state or local taxes be approved by two-thirds of the electorate for either jurisdiction
Legislatively-referred amendment: Requires ballot measures which raise vote thresholds to supermajority votes to pass by the same proposed threshold first
Legislatively-referred amendment: ACA 8, would repeal the prisoner exception from California's constitutional ban on slavery, and prohibit the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from disciplining any incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment, while allowing for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award credits to an incarcerated person who voluntarily accepts a work assignment.
= Withdrawn from November ballot
=Legislatively-referred amendment: Would repeal constitutional requirement that voters approve publicly-funded housing developments at certain rent levels.
Citizen-initiated statute: Repeals the Private Attorneys General Act.
Citizen-initiated amendment/statute: increases the income tax by 0.75% for 10 years to develop the California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Institute.
Veto referendum: Repeals SB 1137, which would prohibit the construction of oil and gas wells within health protection zones.
Veto referendum: repeals AB 257, which would establish a fast-food workers council.
Colorado
Legislatively-referred statute: Would impose a 6.5% excise tax on firearms and ammunition sales to fund crime victim services, education, and mental health programs for children and veterans.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Creates an independent judicial discipline adjudicative board to create rules for the judicial discipline process.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Changes the deadlines for filing initiative and referendum petition signatures and judicial retention notice deadlines to remove one week in order to allow one extra week for the secretary of state to certify ballot order and content and election officials' deadline to transmit ballots.
Citizen-initiated statute: Prohibit trophy hunting, defined as "intentionally killing, wounding, pursuing, or entrapping a mountain lion, bobcat, or lynx; or discharging or releasing any deadly weapon at a mountain lion, bobcat, or lynx".
Legislatively-referred amendment: Extends property tax exemption for veterans with disabilities to veterans with individual unemployability status.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Requires statewide voter approval for local governments to retain property tax revenue which exceeds 4% from the total statewide property tax revenue collected in the previous year.
Legislative-referred amendment: Remove Constitutional Same-Sex Marriage Ban Amendment, would remove the provision of the state constitution that says "Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognised as a marriage in this state".
Legislative-referred amendment: Removes the right to bail in cases of first degree murder when the proof is evident or the presumption is great.
Legislatively-referred statute: Allows the state to retain tax revenue collected above $29 million annually from the tax on sports betting proceeds.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Right to Abortion and Health Insurance Coverage Initiative, also known as Amendment 79 would create a right to abortion in the state constitution and repeal constitutional provision banning the use of public funds for abortion.
Connecticut
Legislatively-referred amendment: Authorizes the state legislature to provide by law for no-excuse absentee voting
Florida
NOTE: proposed amendments, whether initiated by the legislature or by citizen petition, must receive 60% in favor in order to pass.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment 1, Makes school board elections partisan instead of nonpartisan, allows for partisan primaries for school board elections starting in 2026.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment 2, Gives a state constitutional right to hunt and fish.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Amendment 3, would legalize possession of up to 3 ounces of recreational cannabis for adults aged 21 and over, allows Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers, and other state licensed entities, to acquire, process and distribute cannabis products. This amendment failed.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Amendment 4, would legalize abortion up to viability, would require parental consent for minors who are pregnant.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment 5, Provide for an annual inflation adjustment for the value of the homestead property tax exemption.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment 6, would repeal an amendment to provide public funding for candidates who agree to spending limits for their campaigns.
Georgia
Legislatively-referred amendment: Georgia Creation of Tax Court Amendment, would create the Georgia Tax Court which would have "concurrent jurisdiction with the state business court and superior courts in equity cases."
Legislatively-referred amendment: Georgia Personal Property Tax Exemption Increase Measure, this would increase the personal property tax exemption from $7,500 to $20,000.
Idaho
Legislatively-referred amendment: Amend the state constitution so that only US citizens may be able to vote in Idaho.
Initiated state statute: This would replace partisan primary elections with an open "top-four" nonpartisan primary election for the US Senate and US House, state offices and county elected offices. A ranked-choice voting system would be created for general elections.
Indiana
Legislatively-referred amendment: Removes the superintendent of public instruction from the gubernatorial line of succession.
Iowa
Legislatively-referred amendment: Iowa Require Citizenship to Vote in State Elections and Allow 17-Year-Olds to Vote in Primaries Amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote; and supports allowing 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the general election to vote in primary elections. This amendment passed.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Would provide for the lieutenant governor to assume the office of governor for the remainder of the term if the governor dies, resigns or is removed from office. This amendment passed.
Kentucky
Legislatively-referred amendment: School choice amendment: would allow the Kentucky General Assembly to fund charter schools.
Legislatively-referred amendment: would ban noncitizens from voting.
Maine
Legislatively-referred statute: State flag referendum, would change the flag of Maine; the candidate flag is a modernized version of the state's previous flag previous 1901 flag.
Indirect initiated state statue: Campaign Contribution Limits Initiative, would limit the number of campaign contributions made by individuals and entities toward political action committees (PACs) to $5,000 per year.
Maryland
Legislatively-referred amendment: Maryland Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add a new article into the Maryland Constitution's Declaration of Rights establishing a "right to reproductive freedom".
Massachusetts
Voter referendum: An initiative to remove the MCAS test as requirement to graduate high school.
Voter referendum: An initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers.
Voter referendum: An initiative to authorize the state auditor to audit the state legislature, and remove some existing regulations regarding the auditing process.
Voter referendum: An initiative to legalize some psychedelic substances for medical and research use. This referendum failed.
There are 2 competing questions that relate to the classification of app based workers such as Uber drivers.
Voter referendum: One would consider app-based drivers to be independent contractors and enacts several labor policies related to app-based companies.
Voter referendum: The second would allow these app based workers to unionize and use collective bargaining.
Minnesota
Legislatively-referred amendment: Extends lottery-derived revenue direction to Environment and Natural Resources Fund for 25 years
Missouri
= August 6
=Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows for property tax exemption for childcare facilities.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Raises the minimum funding level for the Kansas City Police Department. This Amendment passed.
= November 5
=Legislatively-referred amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote. Would also prohibit ranked-choice voting.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Define the administration of justice to include the levying of costs and fees to support the salaries and benefits for law enforcement personnel.
Citizen-initiated statute: Establish a $13.75 per hour minimum wage by 2025, which would be increased by $1.25 per hour each year until 2026, when it is increased to $15 an hour; also requires employers to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Amendment 3, establishes right to reproductive freedom and legalizes abortion until fetal viability.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Legalizes and regulates sports betting in Missouri.
Montana
Citizen-initiated amendment: CI-126, create a top-four styled primary where candidates would run regardless of party for governor, lieutenant governor and other state executive positions along with state legislators "and congressional officers". The candidates that get the top four largest amount of the vote would go onto the general election regardless of whichever party they belong to.
Nebraska
Citizen-initiated amendment: Nebraska Measure 434. Limit abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy except when medically necessary or in cases of sexual assault or incest. This amendment passed.
Citizen-initiated state statute: Nebraska Measure 436: Nebraska Paid Sick Leave Initiative. Require employers to give sick leave for employees. Those who work less than 80 hours during a single "calendar year" would not be included. Employers who have less than 20 employees they would have to provide 40 hours per year per employee. While those who have over 20 must provide 56 hours per employee. This amendment passed.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Nebraska Measure 437, legalizes the use of up to five ounces of marijuana for medical use by qualified patients. This amendment passed, amid ongoing legal challenges.
= Withdrawn from the ballot
=Voter referendum: would repeal tax credit for taxpayers who contribute to education scholarships.
Nevada
As of September 2024, six ballot measures have been certified to appear on the 2024 general election ballot:
Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 1, A legislative-initiated initiative to remove the constitutional status of the Nevada Board of Regents (similar language as State Question 1 in 2022);
Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 2, A legislative-initiated initiative to revise language regarding public entities that benefit individuals with mental illness, blindness, or deafness;
Citizen-initiated amendment: Question 3, Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative, a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to change state and federal elections to use Nonpartisan blanket primaries in the first round of elections and ranked-choice voting in the second round among the top five candidates. Amendment was first approved by voters in 2022.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 4, A legislative-initiated initiative to remove a penal exception for slavery and involuntary servitude from the state constitution;
Legislatively-referred statute: Question 5, would create a sales tax exemption for child and adult diapers.
Citizen-initiated amendment: Right to Abortion Initiative, This would provide for a state constitutional right to an abortion until a person reaches fetal viability.
New Hampshire
= November 5
=Legislatively-referred amendment: Increase Mandatory Judicial Retirement Age Amendment, This would increase the mandatory retirement age for anyone serving as a judge in New Hampshire from 70 to 75.
New Mexico
Legislatively-referred amendment: Proportionally applies disabled veterans property tax exemption according to veteran's disability rating
Legislatively-referred amendment: Increases property tax exemption for veterans from $4,000 to $10,000, adjusting for inflation
New York
Legislatively-referred amendment: Equal Protection of Law Amendment: would amend the Equal Protection Clause of the state constitution to ensure equality under the law regardless of "ethnicity, national origin, age, disability", and "sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy". Current text, drafted in 1938, only protects "race, color, creed, or religion".
North Dakota
= June 11
=Legislatively-referred amendment: Initiative Measure 1 places an age limit of 81 years old for one to be elected or appointed to the US Senate or US House of Representatives if an "individual would become 81 years old by December 31 of the year preceding the end of their term". This amendment passed.
= November 5
=Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 1, would update language in state constitution to reflect changes in language regarding disabilities.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 2, would institute a single-subject rule for citizen initiatives, increase petition threshold and require passage of citizen-initiated constitutional amendments at two consecutive elections
Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 3, would change requirements for transfers from the state legacy fund
Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 4, would prohibit all political subdivisions from levying any property tax
Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 5, legalizes production, processing, and sale of marijuana for recreational use. This measure failed.
Ohio
Citizen-initiated amendment: Issue 1, would replace the seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission, consisting of elected officials, with a Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC), a 15-member citizen-only non-partisan commission for redrawing congressional and legislative districts
Oregon
Legislatively-referred amendment: A measure to establish an Independent Public Service Compensation Commission to determine certain public officials' salaries.
Legislatively-referred amendment: A measure that would create ranked-choice elections for US President, US Senator, US Representative, Governor, State Secretary of State, State Attorney General, State Treasurer, Commissioner of Labor and Industries starting in 2028.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows for the Legislature to impeach state elected officials.
Rhode Island
Constitutional convention question: would ask voters on whether to hold a state constitutional convention
South Carolina
Legislatively-referred amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote.
South Dakota
Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment E: Would change male-oriented language in state constitution to gender-neutral language.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment H: Would create a top-two styled primary system in elections for governor, state legislature, a county office, US Senate and the US House of Representatives.
Citizen-initiated-statute: Initiated Measure 28: Ban placing a state sales tax on items sold for human consumption with the exception of alcohol or "prepared food".
Citizen-initiated-statute: Initiated Measure 29: Legalize the possession of, distribution and recreational usage of marijuana for those who are at least 21 years of age.
Utah
Legislatively-referred amendment: Repeals constitutional requirement that income tax and intangible property tax revenue collected by the state government be distributed to educational funding; allows for distribution of revenue to other purposes by the state after educational funding requirements are met.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Increases the annual distributions from the State School Fund for public education from 4% to 5%.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Provides for elections of county sheriffs to serve four-year terms.
Washington
= November 5
=Citizen-initiated statute: Initiative 2066: would prohibit the state and local governments from passing laws restricting the ability of homes and businesses to use and access natural gas, would require utilities that use natural gas to install it in homes, and would prohibiting changes to the law to make natural gas more expensive or less competitive.
Initiative to the Legislature: Initiative 2109: would repeal the passage of SB 5096-2021-22, which imposed a 7% capital gains tax on the sale of capital assets worth more than $250,000.
Initiative to the Legislature: Initiative 2117: would repeal the passage of the 2021 Washington Climate Commitment Act (CCA), which created a maximum legal amount of carbon emissions for the state and requires companies with emissions exceeding 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year to pay a tax commiserate to the amount of carbon released by the company over the previous year.
Initiative to the Legislature: Initiative 2124: would allow individuals and businesses to opt out of the WA Cares program, a long term disability program created by the state in 2019.
West Virginia
Legislatively-referred amendment: would amend West Virginia's constitution to prohibit medically assisted suicide. This amendment passed.
Wisconsin
= April 2
=Legislatively-referred amendment: provides that only election officials designated by law may administer elections. This amendment passed.
Legislatively-referred amendment: prohibits all levels of government in the state from receiving non-governmental funding or equipment for election administration. This amendment passed.
= August 13
=Legislatively-referred amendment: Would have banned the Wisconsin State Legislature from "delegating its power to appropriate money". This amendment did not pass.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Would have required the Governor of Wisconsin to get approval from the state legislature in order to spend federal money which has been appropriated to Wisconsin. The amendment did not pass.
= November 5
=Legislatively-referred amendment: would specify that only citizens aged 18 and above may vote in elections at all levels of government.
Wyoming
Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows legislature to exempt property from taxation in part in full "to preserve home ownership in Wyoming for the elderly and infirm if necessary for the support of the poor.".
Other jurisdictions
= Puerto Rico
=2024 Puerto Rican status referendum
= District of Columbia
=Initiative: Initiative 83, eliminate closed party primaries, establish ranked choice-voting starting in 2026 and create a semi-open primary where voters unaffiliated with a party can vote in the party primary.
Notes
References
External links
2024 U.S. state ballot measures at Ballotpedia
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