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Bill would direct voters with complex local tax and bond measures to detailed voter guide explanations
Summary
AB 699 would let jurisdictions keep concise ballot labels for tiered taxes and complex bonds while directing voters to the voter information guide for plain-language explanations of costs and exemptions.
AB 699, presented by Assemblymember Stephanie (author name given in the hearing transcript as the bill—s author), would allow jurisdictions to include a short, readable ballot label while directing voters to the voter information guide for fuller, plain-language explanations of tiered taxes and multiphase bond repayment. The bill aims to address limits created by a 75-word ballot-label ceiling that speakers said forces jurisdictions to strip meaningful distinctions from descriptions of tiered parcel taxes and complex bonds.
Proponents said the change is meant to improve transparency, not to remove information from public view. G.T. Harichmack, policy director at the Nonprofit Housing…
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