Proposition Summary

COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE. LEGISLATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. • Transfers authority to remove or discipline judges from California Supreme Court to Commission on Judicial Performance. • Provides for public disciplinary proceedings against judges and former judges and specifies the circumstances warranting their removal, retirement, suspension, admonishment, or censure. • Increases non-judicial citizen membership on the Commission. • Specifies authority of Commission to discipline former judges. • Provides immunities to persons employed by or making statements to the Commission. • Specifies review processes for Commission determinations and requires the Supreme Court to issue Code of Judicial Ethics. Summary of Legislative Analyst's Estimate of Net State and Local Fiscal Impact: • Not likely to have a significant fiscal impact on the state.

Proposition Number

190

Year

1994

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 4759874; A: 63.9; N: 2692377; B: 36.1

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Assembly Constitutional Amendment

For Author

WILLIE L. BROWN, JR., Speaker, California State Assembly; ALFRED E. ALQUIST, California State Senator; MARC POCHE, Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal --

Against Author

QUENTIN L. KOPP, State Senator (I-San Francisco/San Mateo); JUDGE JOSEPH A. WAPNER, Retired Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court --

Rebuttal Author

QUENTIN L. KOPP, State Senator (Independent-San Francisco/San Mateo); JUDGE JOSEPH A. WAPNER, Retired Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court; ARLEIGH WOODS, Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal --

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