Proposition Summary

NEW PRISON CONSTRUCTION BOND ACT OF 1990-B. This act provides for a bond issue of four hundred fifty million dollars ($450,000,000) to provide funds to relieve overcrowding in the state's prisons and the Youth Authority facilities through new construction.

Proposition Number

144

Year

1990

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Legislative Vote Results

Final Votes Cast by the Legislature on AB 524 (Proposition 144) Assembly -- Ayes, 55; Noes, 13 -- Senate -- Ayes, 28; Noes, 7

Popular Vote Results

Y: 2871183; A: 40.38; N: 4239091; B: 59.62

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Bond Act (leg)

For Author

George Deukmejian, Governor, State of California; Robert Presley, State Senator, 36th District; Willard H. Murray, Jr., Member of the Assembly, 54th District

Against Author

Senator Alfred E. Alquist, Chair, Senate Budget Committee; Assemblymember John Vasconcellos, Chair, Assembly Ways and Means Committee; Vincent Schiraldi, Commissioner, Blue Ribbon Commission on Inmate Population Management

Rebuttal Author

Assemblyman John Vasconcellos, Chair, Assembly Ways and Means Committee; Senator Alfred E. Alquist, Chair, Senate Budget Committee; Vincent Schiraldi, Commissioner, Blue Ribbon Commission on Inmate Population Management

Rebuttal Against Author

George Deukmejian, Governor, State of California; Robert Presley, State Senator, 36th District; Willard H. Murray, Jr., Member of the Assembly, 54th District

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