The following is a list of ballot measures (also known as referendums, ballot questions, proposals, initiatives, propositions and proposals) which were on the ballot for the
2022 United States elections. Some were held prior to the federal elections on November 8. Many were initiated by state legislatures, while others were initiated by public petitions.
Authorize Certain Cities to Use Special Property Tax Revenue to Pay for Capital Improvements Directly Amendment
Allow certain cities to pass a special
property tax to pay for capital improvements directly, instead of through paying through bonds or other forms of debt.
Prohibit the
state government from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including their
fundamental right to choose to have an
abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse the use of
contraceptives.
Impose a 10 percent tax on sports betting at
racetracks, with the revenue generated being used to enforce and implement problem-gambling prevention programs.
Online sports betting platforms would be operated by a gaming tribe directly or with an operating agreement with a gaming tribe.
A 10 percent tax would also be levied on
sports betting revenues and licensing fees, with the revenue generated to both regulate the online sports betting industry and help homelessness prevention programs.
Require annual funding for arts and music education in all K-12 public schools. The annual minimum amount would be equal to 1 percent of the required state and local funding for public schools under
1988's Proposition 98. The funds would be distributed so that a greater proportion are given to schools that serve economically disadvantaged students.
Schools with 500 or more students would be required to:
Spend 80 percent of the funding they receive to employ teachers.
Repeal the ban on paying managers and operators of charitable gaming activities. Limit the compensation amounts to the minimum wage until July 1, 2024.
Reduce the time an organization that must exist before obtaining a charitable gaming license through January 1, 2025 from 5 years to 3 years.
Allow the
Legislature to determine how long an organization must exist before obtaining a charitable gaming license after January 1, 2025.
Decriminalization and Regulated Access Program for Certain Psychedelic Plants and Fungi Initiative
Define certain
psychedelic plants and fungi as natural medicine. (Includes dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline (excluding peyote), psilocybin and psilocyn.
Decriminalize personal use, possession, growth and transport of natural medicines for persons aged 21 years old and above.
Create the Regulated Natural Medicine Access Program for licensed healing centers to administer natural medicine
Dedicate State Income Tax Revenue to Fund Housing Projects Initiative
The creation of the State Affordable Housing Fund, which would use one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of state
income tax revenue to fund affordable housing programs, including:
Provide grants to local governments and loans to
nonprofit organizations to buy and maintain land to develop affordable housing.
Create an affordable housing equity program to ensure rent in multi-family rental units is no higher than 30% of a household's income.
Create a concessionary debt program to finance the development of low- and middle-income multi-family rental units and existing affordable housing projects.
Create an affordable home ownership program that provides down-payment assistance for homebuyers that meet the income requirements.
Create a grant program for local governments to increase capacity to process land use, permitting, and zoning applications for housing development projects.
Create a program to provide rental assistance and housing vouchers for homeless people.
Provide that property tax rates can be increased by a
two-thirds vote by the taxing authority up to the maximum rate permitted by the
Louisiana Constitution until the authorized rate expires.
Add language in the Louisiana Constitution that prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude except in circumstances of "otherwise lawful administration of criminal justice".
Residency Requirements for State Legislators Amendment
Require
state legislative candidates to live in the district in which they are running for six months before their election, effective January 1, 2024.
Remove Proof of Citizenship or Immigration Status for Driver's License Applications Referendum
Maintain current law that allow people who cannot verify citizenship or immigration status to use alternate forms of identification when applying for a driver's license.
Require the state to fund dropboxes for absentee ballots.
Allow local governments to receive funding and donation from
charity organizations to assist with running elections, as long as they are not foreign entities.
Provide that election officials are responsible for election audits.
Election audits to be conducted in public.
Election results to be certified on vote cast.
Prohibit harassing or intimidating conduct that interferes with or denies the right to vote.
Legalize the possession, consumption, manufacture, sale and delivery of
marijuana.
Allow for a
petition of release from
prison and
expungement of conviction records for certain marijuana-related offenses, while also allowing judges to deny the expungement for "good cause".
Allocate 1.25% of the five-year average of year-end market values of the money in the Land Grand Permanent Fund (LGPF) to early childhood education and the public school permanent fund if the LGPF balance of the previous year was not below $17 billion.
Authorizing Funds for Residential Services Infrastructure Amendment
Allow appropriate state funds to provide access to essential residential services, including internet, electric, natural gas, water, and wastewater, through a simple majority vote in both chambers of the
Legislature.
Sale and issuance of $4.20 billion in state bonds for funding projects classified as environmental protection, natural restoration, resiliency, climate mitigation and clean energy.
Remove Slavery as Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment
Removes language from the
Oregon Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude as a form of criminal punishment.
Adds language to the Oregon Constitution that authorizes courts or probation or parole agencies to have alternatives to incarceration for convicted individuals during sentencing.
Exclusion from Re-election for Legislative Absenteeism Initiative
Disqualify legislators for re-election after the end of their term if they have been absent from 10 floor sessions at the
Legislature without permission or excuse.
Changes to Firearm Ownership and Purchase Requirements Initiative
Require permits from local law enforcement to buy a firearm.
Require photo identification, fingerprints, safety training, criminal background check and the payment of a fee to apply for a firearm permit.
Criminalize the manufacturing, importing, buying, selling, possessing, using or transferring of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Violations would make it a class A misdeameanor.
Passed
Rhode Island
Rhode Island November 2022 ballot propositions
Measure
Type
Description
Result
Reference
Question 1
Bond Issue
University Narragansett Bay Campus Bond Measure
Sale and issuance of $100 million in bonds for funding the education and research of the marine discipline in the
University of Rhode Island Narrangansett Campus.
Passed
Question 2
Bond Issue
Public School Buildings Bond Measure
Sale and issuance of $250 million in bonds for construction and renovation of state public school buildings.
Passed
Question 3
Bond Issue
Environment and Recreation Bond Measure
Sale and issuance of $50 million in bonds for environmental and recreational purposes.
Require the state to expand Medicaid coverage for adults between the age 18 and 65 with incomes 138% below the federal poverty level, beginning July 1, 2023.
Remove Slavery as Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment
Remove language from the
Tennessee Constitution that allowed the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments, and replace it with "Slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited.".
Protects the right to personal reproductive autonomy
Prohibit government infringement on personal reproductive autonomy unless there is a "compelling State interest".
Passed
Washington
Washington November 2022 propositions
Measure
Type
Description
Result
Reference
Advisory Vote 39
Advisory Question
Aircraft Fuel Tax Increase Nonbinding Question
Maintain a tax increase on aircraft from 11 cents per gallon to 18 cents per gallon, generating an estimated $14 million in the first ten years, from Senate Bill 5974 of 2022
The following is a list of ballot measures (also known as referendums, ballot questions, proposals, initiatives, propositions and proposals) which were on the ballot for the
2022 United States elections. Some were held prior to the federal elections on November 8. Many were initiated by state legislatures, while others were initiated by public petitions.
Authorize Certain Cities to Use Special Property Tax Revenue to Pay for Capital Improvements Directly Amendment
Allow certain cities to pass a special
property tax to pay for capital improvements directly, instead of through paying through bonds or other forms of debt.
Prohibit the
state government from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including their
fundamental right to choose to have an
abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse the use of
contraceptives.
Impose a 10 percent tax on sports betting at
racetracks, with the revenue generated being used to enforce and implement problem-gambling prevention programs.
Online sports betting platforms would be operated by a gaming tribe directly or with an operating agreement with a gaming tribe.
A 10 percent tax would also be levied on
sports betting revenues and licensing fees, with the revenue generated to both regulate the online sports betting industry and help homelessness prevention programs.
Require annual funding for arts and music education in all K-12 public schools. The annual minimum amount would be equal to 1 percent of the required state and local funding for public schools under
1988's Proposition 98. The funds would be distributed so that a greater proportion are given to schools that serve economically disadvantaged students.
Schools with 500 or more students would be required to:
Spend 80 percent of the funding they receive to employ teachers.
Repeal the ban on paying managers and operators of charitable gaming activities. Limit the compensation amounts to the minimum wage until July 1, 2024.
Reduce the time an organization that must exist before obtaining a charitable gaming license through January 1, 2025 from 5 years to 3 years.
Allow the
Legislature to determine how long an organization must exist before obtaining a charitable gaming license after January 1, 2025.
Decriminalization and Regulated Access Program for Certain Psychedelic Plants and Fungi Initiative
Define certain
psychedelic plants and fungi as natural medicine. (Includes dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline (excluding peyote), psilocybin and psilocyn.
Decriminalize personal use, possession, growth and transport of natural medicines for persons aged 21 years old and above.
Create the Regulated Natural Medicine Access Program for licensed healing centers to administer natural medicine
Dedicate State Income Tax Revenue to Fund Housing Projects Initiative
The creation of the State Affordable Housing Fund, which would use one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of state
income tax revenue to fund affordable housing programs, including:
Provide grants to local governments and loans to
nonprofit organizations to buy and maintain land to develop affordable housing.
Create an affordable housing equity program to ensure rent in multi-family rental units is no higher than 30% of a household's income.
Create a concessionary debt program to finance the development of low- and middle-income multi-family rental units and existing affordable housing projects.
Create an affordable home ownership program that provides down-payment assistance for homebuyers that meet the income requirements.
Create a grant program for local governments to increase capacity to process land use, permitting, and zoning applications for housing development projects.
Create a program to provide rental assistance and housing vouchers for homeless people.
Provide that property tax rates can be increased by a
two-thirds vote by the taxing authority up to the maximum rate permitted by the
Louisiana Constitution until the authorized rate expires.
Add language in the Louisiana Constitution that prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude except in circumstances of "otherwise lawful administration of criminal justice".
Residency Requirements for State Legislators Amendment
Require
state legislative candidates to live in the district in which they are running for six months before their election, effective January 1, 2024.
Remove Proof of Citizenship or Immigration Status for Driver's License Applications Referendum
Maintain current law that allow people who cannot verify citizenship or immigration status to use alternate forms of identification when applying for a driver's license.
Require the state to fund dropboxes for absentee ballots.
Allow local governments to receive funding and donation from
charity organizations to assist with running elections, as long as they are not foreign entities.
Provide that election officials are responsible for election audits.
Election audits to be conducted in public.
Election results to be certified on vote cast.
Prohibit harassing or intimidating conduct that interferes with or denies the right to vote.
Legalize the possession, consumption, manufacture, sale and delivery of
marijuana.
Allow for a
petition of release from
prison and
expungement of conviction records for certain marijuana-related offenses, while also allowing judges to deny the expungement for "good cause".
Allocate 1.25% of the five-year average of year-end market values of the money in the Land Grand Permanent Fund (LGPF) to early childhood education and the public school permanent fund if the LGPF balance of the previous year was not below $17 billion.
Authorizing Funds for Residential Services Infrastructure Amendment
Allow appropriate state funds to provide access to essential residential services, including internet, electric, natural gas, water, and wastewater, through a simple majority vote in both chambers of the
Legislature.
Sale and issuance of $4.20 billion in state bonds for funding projects classified as environmental protection, natural restoration, resiliency, climate mitigation and clean energy.
Remove Slavery as Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment
Removes language from the
Oregon Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude as a form of criminal punishment.
Adds language to the Oregon Constitution that authorizes courts or probation or parole agencies to have alternatives to incarceration for convicted individuals during sentencing.
Exclusion from Re-election for Legislative Absenteeism Initiative
Disqualify legislators for re-election after the end of their term if they have been absent from 10 floor sessions at the
Legislature without permission or excuse.
Changes to Firearm Ownership and Purchase Requirements Initiative
Require permits from local law enforcement to buy a firearm.
Require photo identification, fingerprints, safety training, criminal background check and the payment of a fee to apply for a firearm permit.
Criminalize the manufacturing, importing, buying, selling, possessing, using or transferring of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Violations would make it a class A misdeameanor.
Passed
Rhode Island
Rhode Island November 2022 ballot propositions
Measure
Type
Description
Result
Reference
Question 1
Bond Issue
University Narragansett Bay Campus Bond Measure
Sale and issuance of $100 million in bonds for funding the education and research of the marine discipline in the
University of Rhode Island Narrangansett Campus.
Passed
Question 2
Bond Issue
Public School Buildings Bond Measure
Sale and issuance of $250 million in bonds for construction and renovation of state public school buildings.
Passed
Question 3
Bond Issue
Environment and Recreation Bond Measure
Sale and issuance of $50 million in bonds for environmental and recreational purposes.
Require the state to expand Medicaid coverage for adults between the age 18 and 65 with incomes 138% below the federal poverty level, beginning July 1, 2023.
Remove Slavery as Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment
Remove language from the
Tennessee Constitution that allowed the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments, and replace it with "Slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited.".
Protects the right to personal reproductive autonomy
Prohibit government infringement on personal reproductive autonomy unless there is a "compelling State interest".
Passed
Washington
Washington November 2022 propositions
Measure
Type
Description
Result
Reference
Advisory Vote 39
Advisory Question
Aircraft Fuel Tax Increase Nonbinding Question
Maintain a tax increase on aircraft from 11 cents per gallon to 18 cents per gallon, generating an estimated $14 million in the first ten years, from Senate Bill 5974 of 2022