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 Against Author
George Deukmejian, Governor, State of California; Robert Presley, State Senator, 36th District; Willard H. Murray, Jr., Member of the Assembly, 54th District
Recommended Citation
NEW PRISON CONSTRUCTION BOND ACT OF 1990-B California Proposition 144 (1990).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/1049