To: [aaron r p] at [netcom.com]
Subject: proposition 170
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 22:41:36 +45722824
From: aphrael <[a--r--l] at [cats.ucsc.edu]>


This amendment proposed by Assembly Constitutional
Amendment 6 (Statutes of 1992, Resolution Chapter 135)
expressly amends the Constitution by amending sections
thereof; therefore, existing provisions proposed to be
deleted are marked by curly brackets, and new provisions
proposed to be added are marked by asterisks.


PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XIII A, SECTION 1 AND ARTICLE XVI, 
SECTION 18.

First----That Section 1 of Article XIII A thereof is amended to 
read:

Section 1. (a) The maximum amount of an ad valorem tax on real 
property shall not exceed {One} *one* percent (1%) of the full 
cash value of such property. The  one percent (1%) tax {to} 
*shall* be collected by the counties and apportioned according 
to law to the districts within the counties.

	(b) The limitation provided for in subdivision (a) shall 
not apply to ad valorem taxes or special assessments to pay the 
interest and redemption charges on {1} *any of the following*:

		*(1) Any* indebtedness approved by the voters 
prior to July 1, 1978, {or}

		(2) *Any* bonded indebtedness, *not subject to 
paragraph (3)*, for the acquisition or improvement of real 
property approved on or after July 1, 1978, by two-thirds of the 
{votes cast by the} voters voting on the proposition.

		*(3) Any bonded indebtedness incurred by a school 
district, county office of education, or community college 
district for the construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation 
of school facilities, including the furnishing and equipping 
thereof, or the acquisition of real prooperty therefor, approved 
by the majority of the voters voting on the proposition on or 
after the day after the date of the election at which Assembly 
Constitutional Amendment 6 og the 1991-92 Regular Session is 
approved.
	
	(c) No ad valorem tax levied pursuant to subdivision (b) 
shall be deemed a special tax for purposes of this article.

	(d) Section 65997 of the Government Code, as that section 
read on the effective date of this subdivision, has no force or 
effect.*


Second----That Section 18 of Article XVI thereof is amended to 
read:

SECTION 18. *(a)* No county, city, town, township, board of 
education, or school district, shall incur any indebtedness or 
liability in any manner or for any purpose exceeding in any year 
the income and revenue provided for {such} *that* year, withou 
the assent of two-thirds of the {qualified electors} *voters* 
thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose, 
except that, with respect to any such public entity which is 
authorized to incur indebtedness for public school purposes, any 
proposition for the incurrence of indebtedness in the form of 
general obligation bonds for the purpose of repairing, 
reconstructing, or replacing public school buildings, determined, 
in the manner prescribed by la, to be structurally unsafe for 
school use, shall be adopted upon the approval of a majority of 
the {qualified electors}*voters* of the public entity voting on 
the proposition at {such} *the* election; nor, unless, before, or 
at the time of incurring {such} *the* election; nor unless, 
before or at the time of incurring {such} *the* indebtedness, 
provision shall be made for the collection of an annual tax 
sufficient to py the interest on {such} *the* indebtedness as it 
falls due, and also provision to constitute a sinking fund for 
the payment of the principal thereof, on or before maturity, 
which shall not exceed foty years from the time of contracting 
the {same} *indebtedness*; provided, however, anything to the 
contrary herein notwithstanding, when two or more propositions 
for incurring any indebtedness or liability are submitted at the 
same electin, the votes cast for and against each proposition 
shall be counted separately, and when two-thirds or a majority of 
the {qualified electors} *voters*, as the case may be, voting on 
an one of {such} *those* propositions, vote in favor thereof, 
{such} *the* proposition shall be deemed adopted.

	*(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), on or after the day 
after the date of the election at which a majority of the voters 
voting in that election on Assembly Constitutional Amendment 6 
of the 1991-92 Regular Session approve it, with respect to any 
school district, county office  of education, or community 
college district, any proposition for the incurrence of 
indebtedness in the form of teneral obligation bonds for the 
construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of school 
facilities, including the furnishing and equipping thereof, or 
the acquisition of real property therefor, shall be adopted upon 
the approval of a majority of the voters of the district or 
county, as appropriate, voting on the proposition at an election 
held for that purpose.*

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Source: Pages 40-41 of the California Ballot Pamphlet for the 
November 2, 1993, Special Statewide Election.
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