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A REFERENDUM ON PUBLIC ACT 269 OF 2001 - AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW * Eliminate 'straight party' vote option on partisan general election ballots. * Require Secretary of State to obtain training reports from local election officials. * Require registered voters who do not appear on registration list to show picture identification before voting a challenged ballot. * Require expedited canvass if presidential vote differential is under 25,000. * Require ballot counting equipment to screen ballots for voting errors to ensure the accurate tabulation of absentee ballots. Permit voters in polls to correct errors. * Provide penalties for stealing campaign signs or accepting payment for campaign work while being paid as a public employee to perform election duties. Should this law be approved?
A PROPOSAL TO AUTHORIZE BONDS FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS PROJECTS, STORM WATER PROJECTS AND WATER POLLUTION PROJECTS * Authorize the State of Michigan to borrow a sum not to exceed $1 billion to improve the quality of the waters of the state by financing sewage treatment works projects, storm water projects and water pollution projects. * Authorize the state to issue general obligation bonds pledging the full faith and credit of the state for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds. * Provide for repayment of the bonds from the general fund of the state. Should this proposal be adopted?
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO GRANT STATE CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH BINDING ARBITRATION * Grant state classified employees, in appropriate bargaining units determined by the Civil Service Commission, the right to elect bargaining representatives for the purpose of collective bargaining with the state employer. * Require the state to bargain in good faith for the purpose of reaching a binding collective bargaining agreement with any elected bargaining representatives over wages, hours, pensions and other terms and conditions of employment. * Extend the bargaining representatives the right to submit any unresolved disputes over the terms of a collective bargaining agreement to binding arbitration 30 days after the commencement of bargaining. Should the proposal be adopted?
A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REALLOCATE THE 'TOBACCO SETTLEMENT REVENUE' RECEIVED BY THE STATE FROM CIGARETTE MANUFACTURERS * Annually allocate on a permanent basis 90% (approximately $297 million) of 'tobacco settlement revenue' received by state from cigarette manufacturers as follows: $151.8 million to nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices, nurse practitioners, school-linked health centers and Healthy Michigan Foundation; $102.3 million to fund programs to reduce tobacco use, Health and Aging Research Development Initiative, Tobacco-Free Futures Fund, Council of Michigan Foundations and Nurses Scholarship Program; and $42.9 million to the Elder Prescription Drug Program. * Guarantee recipients funding at 2001 appropriation levels plus additional state funds on an escalating basis for nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices and nurse practitioners. Should this proposal be adopted?
Shall taxes be increased against all taxable real and tangible personal property within the Hesperia Community Library District in an amount not to exceed .25 mill ($.25 on each $1,000.00 of taxable value) for a period of four (4) years, beginning in 2002 through 2005 inclusive, for the purpose of providing funds for all District Library purposes authorized by law; and shall the District Library levy such additional new millage for said purpose; the estimate of the revenue the District Library will collect if the millage is approved and levied by the District Library in the 2002 calendar year is approximately $24,530.00?
Shall the limitation on general ad valorem taxes within Big Prairie Township as established by Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution, be increased by two (2) mills ($2 per $1,000 of taxable value) upon all taxable real and personal property within Big Prairie Township, Newaygo County, Michigan, for a period of six (6) years, 2002 through 2007, inclusive, for the repair, maintenance and improvement of roads within the Township? (If approved and levied, two (2) mills are estimated to raise $99,621 in the first calendar year of the levy.)
Shall the 15 mill limitation on general ad valorem taxes within Home Township imposed under Article IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution be increased for said Township by 1 mill ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2003 and 2004, inclusive, for the purpose of brining roads in Home Township; and shall the Township levy such increase in millage for such purpose during such period, which increase will raise in the first year of such levy an estimated $8,029.00?
Shall the limitation on general ad valorem taxes within Sherman Township as established by Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution, be increased by up to 1.5 mills ($1.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) upon all taxable real and personal property within Sherman Township, Newaygo County, Michigan for a period of three (3) years, 2002 through 2004 inclusive, for the purpose of providing fire protection and emergency services? (If approved and levied, 1.5 mills are estimated to raise $61,317 in the first calendar year of the levy.)
