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	California Proposition 13 (1978) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was enacted by the voters of California on June 6, 1978.
		Proposition 13 greatly benefited homeowners whose homes have appreciated in value since it was passed, particularly those (such as the elderly) whose incomes have not risen as fast as property values.
		In the 2003 California recall election in which Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor, his advisor Warren Buffett suggested that Proposition 13 be repealed or changed as a method of balancing the state's budget.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978) (1594 words)

	List of California ballot propositions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Propositions can be placed on the ballot either through the initiative process or by a vote of the state legislature.
		After November 1982, subsequent propositions received higher and higher numbers until November 1998 when the count was reset.
		Propositions which have received a great deal of attention include Proposition 13, Proposition 65, Proposition 98, Proposition 187, and Proposition 209.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_California_ballot_propositions (159 words)

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		Proposition 13 drastically altered the way real property was assessed in California, changing the state's assessment methodology from one based upon the current fair market value of a property to one based upon what is known as "acquisition value".
		The Amador plaintiffs also asserted that Proposition 13 could not legitimately be adopted because it constituted a revision of, and not an amendment to the California Constitution and, as such, was not eligible to be adopted via the voter initiative process.
		The Court affirmed the decision of the California appellate court, holding that the Proposition 13 tax scheme survived rational basis scrutiny and was not violative of the Equal Protection clause.
	vls.law.vill.edu /orgs/tax-law-compendium/Student/prop13.htm (3669 words)

	The Merrow Report- First to Worst (Special Challenge of Prop 13)
		Passed by 65% of voters in 1978, Proposition 13 is a constitutional amendment that reduced property tax rates by 57% and resulted in a dramatic reduction in the amount of local property tax revenue available for cities, counties, and especially for schools.
		In addition, Proposition 13 required that all state tax rate increases be approved by a two-thirds vote of the legislature and that local tax rates also have to be approved by a 2/3s vote of the people.
		Proposition 13 was dubbed a political earthquake when it passed and later was viewed as the first shot of the 1980s Reagan Revolution.
	www.pbs.org /merrow/tv/ftw/prop13.html (761 words)

	CBP Publication - Proposition 13: Its Impact on California and Implications For State and Local Finances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In June of 1978, California voters enacted Proposition 13 by a vote of 65 percent to 35 percent.
		Proposition 13 reduced local property tax revenues by approximately $6.1 billion (53 percent) virtually overnight by capping property tax rates at one percent and rolling back property values for tax purposes to the 1975-76 level.
		Proposition 13 also made raising taxes more difficult by requiring state tax increases to receive the approval of two-thirds of the legislature and by imposing restrictions on the taxing authority of local governments.
	www.cbp.org /1997/9704pr13.htm (564 words)

	Prop. 13, 25 Years Old, Is Still Under Attack / VIEW FROM THE RIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		California taxpayers are celebrating a silver anniversary, as 2003 is the 25th year since the enactment of California's Proposition 13, whose landmark victory in 1978 sparked a national tax revolt.
		California Tax Reform Association, which is a front group for a consortium of labor unions that finance the organization.
		"Proposition 13 is crippling the state," according to Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, so she has sponsored ACA 16, a constitutional amendment to Proposition 13 that would reassess commercial properties annually and do away with a provision requiring new tax bills to pass with a two-thirds majority vote.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/08/04/asparks.DTL&type=printable (1438 words)

	California Proposition 13 (1978) Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Proposition 13 drew its impetus from 1971 and 1976 California Supreme Court rulings in, 5 Cal.3d 584 (1971) (Serrano I); Serrano v.
		The late Howard Jarvis was the most vocal and visible backer of Proposition 13.
		Young people who would be wealthy in other states are house-poor in California, and are forced to live tens of miles from their workplace in order to afford a home.
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/California_Proposition_13_(1978) (1230 words)

	Proposition 13 and Land Use (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1978, California's Proposition 13 was fueled by a taxpayer revolt.
		Proposition 13 was good for the taxpayer, but not for local governments; it cut local tax revenue by about 53 percent, dramatically altering the way local governments fund public services.
		Proposition 13 may have cut into local governments' share of the property tax, but the measure did not cut into its share of sales tax - and this didn't go unnoticed.
	www.facsnet.org /tools/env_luse/Calif9.php3 (420 words)

	'Prop 13' SparksNew Tax Tussle For Californians
		California's Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot initiative that sparked a nationwide taxpayer revolt, is posing a new fiscal threat to the state's local governments.
		Under Proposition 13, the taxable value established at the time of purchase must be increased annually by an inflation factor, as supplied by the state, not to exceed 2 percent per year.
		Proposition 13 is an enduring benefit for the vast majority of homeowners, as it allows for predictable assessed value increases of 2 percent per year, unless there has been a period of reduction, like with Proposition 8.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/579642/posts (2222 words)

	The Lock-in Effect of California's Proposition 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Proposition 13, adopted by California voters in 1978, mandates a property tax rate of one percent, requires that properties be assessed at market value at the time of sale, and allows assessments to rise by no more than 2 percent per year until the next sale.
		The large effect of Proposition 13 on renters' tenure is particularly striking and suggests that longer tenure by owner-occupiers forces younger households to delay their transition from renting to owning.
		The effect of Proposition 13 on mobility varies widely depending on the size of the subsidy, with the largest effects occurring in coastal California cities where the increase in property values has been greatest.
	www.nber.org /digest/apr05/w11108.html (533 words)

	At The Capitol
		California was a leader in public education with students ranking in the top five among the states in student assessments.
		California school funding and student achievement have both dropped from the 1970s’ rankings in the nation’s top five, to the 1990 rankings in the bottom 10.
		California’s public school classrooms are the most crowded in the country.
	www.weac.org /capitol/march97/prop13.htm (752 words)

	Prop. 13
		Proposition 13 has been blamed for everything from crumbled freeways following the Bay Area earthquake to culpability in the murder of Petaluma's 12-year-old Polly Klaas because an inadequate police communications system prevented the early arrest of her alleged killer.
		Proposition 13 links property taxes to teh property buyer's ability to pay, with a set tax rate tied to the value of the home when purchased, and a cap on future property tax increases.
		13 became law, 55 percent of elementary and high school funding was raised locally, almost all of it from property taxes, and was dispensed with communal itnerest by local boards of education.
	www.wccusd.k12.ca.us /elcerrito/history/prop13.htm (4883 words)

	Proposition 13 Survives Test of Time
		Even after Proposition 13, California ranks among the leaders in per capita burden of state and local taxes and fees, and among the heaviest burdened in proportion to income when compared to other large states.
		One reason Proposition 13 has survived unscathed is the inherent unfairness of schemes that have been discussed or proposed to take its place.
		Proposition 13's acquisition-based valuation is far more objective, and free of assessor manipulation that had reached scandalous proportions in the 1960s.
	www.caltax.org /MEMBER/digest/May98/may98-6.htm (644 words)

	Proposition 13: Love it or Hate it, its Roots Go Deep
		California continues to face one of the most serious crises in the state's public finance history, and proposals are likely to surface in the Legislature or via the initiative process that would overhaul the way taxes are imposed on individuals, businesses and property owners, both residential and commercial.
		It garnered 47 percent of the vote; Proposition 13 was approved by 65 percent.
		Prior to Proposition 13, this had the impact of doubling and quadrupling the property tax burden of homeowners very quickly due to unrealized appreciation in the value of their property.
	www.caltax.org /research/prop13/prop13.htm (3287 words)

	countystress
		In 1978, Proposition 13 froze the rate of property taxation throughout California at one percent and specified that the distribution of statewide property tax revenue among local governments be done according to law.
		After Proposition 13, the property tax revenue collected by a county in California is positively related to the per-capita value of the county’s property tax base and the percentage of the countywide property tax revenue that is allocated to a county based upon the post-Proposition 13 distribution scheme and ERAF.
		California’s recession, that begin in mid-1990 and took some time to be reflected in the six-year average budget balances, is the obvious reason for this temporal pattern.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/w/wassmerr/countystress.htm (6851 words)

	California Tax and Expenditure Limitation ["HOT TOPIC" - IGS Library/UC Berkeley]
		Proposition 13 reduced local property taxes by 57% and thereby slashed the revenue base for local governments and schools.
		Observers also note that an unintended consequence of Proposition 13 was that, because of the continuing robustness of the sales tax as a revenue source, Proposition 13 encouraged cities and counties to promote retail development at the expense of housing and job-creating businesses.
		Proposition 218, passed Nov. 1996, is an initiative constitutional amendment that limits the ability of local government to raise revenue through fees, assessments and taxes.
	www.igs.berkeley.edu /library/htTaxSpendLimits2003.html (2417 words)

	How We Pay For Growth
		California's Proposition 13 -- a citizen anti-tax initiative -- has turned out to be the most important planning law in the state.
		Part of Proposition 13's intent, of course, was to reduce the size of government by reducing the amount of tax revenue available.
		Many of California's sprawling regional development patterns are the result of Proposition 13 also.
	www.sactaqc.org /Resources/Literature/funding/Pay_4_Growth.htm (1089 words)

	Rocket Man Blog: Repeal of California's Proposition 13? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		California's property taxes are held low due to Proposition 13, a wildly popular citizens initiative passed in 1978 that set a properties assessment at 1% of the market value at the time of purchase and capped the increase on this assessment at 2% yearly.
		Buffett's suggestion to work, proposition 13 would have to be changed, which is not going to be very popular with the voters in California.
		California's Prop 13 is a laughing stock of other states in that we have no realistic reassessment of value since 1975.
	www.rocketmanblog.com /2003/09/repeal_of_calif.html (2262 words)

	Speaker's Commission on State / Local Government Finance
		Formed four years ago, the project's goal is to craft agreement among its diverse members and submit a plan for amending Proposition 13 to the state legislature or, failing that, to submit a measure for the November 2000 statewide general election.
		Fox acknowledges that Proposition 13 proponents never intended the state legislature to take control of local revenues the way it has, and he accepts the idea of a constitutional amendment that would lessen state interference with local funding.
		Villaraigosa said he also hopes to amend Proposition 13 "to allow local governments to keep most of their property tax revenues" and, in doing so, to erase financial incentives that sometimes lead localities to make long-term planning decisions based on short-term needs.
	speaker.metroforum.org /press/articles2.html (2595 words)

	Mason Gaffney / Property Tax Reform in the Big Picture
		13 as he left us for Salamon Brothers in Manhattan: "it breached the social compact." Alienation is the result, and the Rodney King riots, arson and looting are the results of alienation.
		California was more hospitable to Georgist thinking than perhaps any other state then, shown by its long run of Georgist political action in the prior thirty years.
		California displayed amazing growth up to 1978, and the resilience to shrug off the loss of war industries after 1945 and still grow "explosively" (as Jane Jacobs put it).
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /gaffney_property_tax_reform_levy.html (1738 words)

	Amazon.com: Proposition 13: unintended effects and feasible reforms.(California Proposition 13) : An article from: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From the author: This paper explores the causes and consequences of Proposition 13, focusing on its effects on horizontal equity among homeowners, household mobility, and the fiscal structure of state and local government.
		Proposition 13 and its implementing legislation decreased the relative importance of the property tax, transformed the property tax from a local tax into a statewide tax, and was a contributing factor in the decrease in the overall burden of state and local taxes.
		This paper explores the causes and consequences of Proposition 13, focusing on its effects on horizontal equity among homeowners, household mobility, and the fiscal structure of state and local government.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00098O716?v=glance (431 words)

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		Unless specifically provided otherwise, amendments to this section adopted after November 1, 1988, shall be effective for changes in ownership that occur, and new construction that is completed, on or after the effective date of the amendment.
		Cities, Counties and special districts, by a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors of such district, may impose special taxes on such district, except ad valorem taxes on real property or a transaction tax or sales tax on the sale of real property within such City, County or special district.
		If any section, part, clause, or phrase hereof is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining sections shall not be affected but will remain in full force and effect.
	www.leginfo.ca.gov /.const/.article_13A (1875 words)

	Initiative - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In US usage, a popular vote on a specific measure is referred to as a referendum only when orginating with the legislature.
		Such a vote is known, when originating in the initiative process, as an 'initiative', 'ballot measure' or 'proposition'.
		Well-known US initiatives include various measures adopted by voters in states such as Washington, Oregon, and California, such as California Proposition 13 (1978), which limited real estate tax rates.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /i/in/initiative.html (442 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Recall election prompts review of California's Proposition 13
		In June, a poll by the California Public Policy Institute found that 57 percent of those surveyed were in favor of lifting limits on commercial property taxes.
		While Proposition 13 perpetuates inequities between one piece of commercial property and another, it also guarantees a predictable property tax bill year after year.
		Under Proposition 13, the taxes on a piece of property are based primarily on the property's most recent sale price.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20030829-0008-ca-recall-proposition13.html (930 words)

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