#83: PASS
Oregon’s Veterans’ Home Loan program provides home loans to veterans who served at least 210 days in the military prior to 1977 and filed for a loan prior to 1986. The measure would eliminate the 1986 deadline and extend the loan program to veterans who served at least 210 days after 1977.
#84: PASS
The measure would retain requirements that the state pay local governments for the costs of state-mandated programs. If the measure fails to pass, the requirement would be repealed, forcing local governments to pay for state-mandated programs.
#85: FAILING
The measure would modify population and minimum area requirements for forming new counties. The measure permits new counties to be established with less than 400 square miles provided that the new county has 100,000 inhabitants.
#86: PASS
Current statutory law requires the state to send refunds to taxpayers every two years when state income exceeds projections by 2 percent. The legislature could withhold the refund with a three-fifths vote. This measure would make this requirement a constitutional amendment and require a two-thirds vote by the legislature to withhold a refund.
#87: FAILING
The measure would allow city and county government to zone where sexually oriented businesses can locate.
#88: PASSING
The measure would cut taxes by increasing the maximum deductible on Oregon personal income tax returns for federal income taxes paid from $3,000 to $5,000.
#89: FAILING
The measure would create a fund from tobacco settlement proceeds dedicated to specified health, housing and transportation programs.
#90: FAIL
This measure would allow regulated utilities — including electric, phone, gas and water — to charge rates high enough to make closed facilities profitable.
#91: FAILING
The measure would make federal income taxes fully deductible on Oregon personal and corporate income tax returns.
#92: FAILING
Measure 92 would prohibit payroll deductions for political purposes without specific written authorization from the employee each year. It would also restrict the use of payroll-deducted funds from such organizations as unions, charities, insurance companies and financial institutions.
#93: FAIL
This measure would require Oregonians to vote on increases in taxes or fees. If the measure passes, future tax or fee increases would have to pass by whatever margin Measure 93 passes. Levies passed since 1998 would be called to vote as well.
#94: FAIL
The measure would repeal Measure 11 mandatory minimum sentences for certain violent crimes and other felonies and would require resentencing.
#95: FAIL
The measure would link teacher pay with student performances on assessmen
t tests.
#96: FAIL
This measure would bar the legislature from altering the initiative process to make it more difficult for an initiative to reach the ballot.
#97: FAIL
This measure would prohibit the use of animal traps, including steel-jawed leghold traps, and would outlaw the harvest and sale of fur using such traps. It would also make the use of poisons sodium fluoroacetate and sodium cyanide illegal.
#98: FAILING
The measure would prohibit the use of public resources — including public monies, public employee time, public buildings and public equipment and supplies — to collect or help collect political funds. Political funds include money contributed to candidates, political committees or parties and ballot measure or initiative petitions.
#99: PASS
The measure would amend the constitution to create a state commission that would work to ensure high-quality home care for elderly and disabled people who receive publicly funded personal care in their homes.
#1: PASS
The measure would amend the constitution to require the Legislature to adequately fund school quality goals linked to Oregon’s school reform efforts. If funding isn’t adequate, the legislature must issue a report analyzing why funding fell short and how that will affect students. Also, the measure would require the state to establish grants for poor school districts.
#2: FAILING
The measure would amend the constitution to create a process for petitioners to require the legislature to review government agency policies.
#3: PASS
The measure requires conviction before property forfeiture, restricts use of proceeds, requires reporting of the nature and disposition of all forfeited properties by forfeiting agencies and declares a penalty for violations.
#4: FAILING
The measure creates a tobacco settlement trust fund with earnings dedicated to low-income health care.
#5: PASS
The measure would require mental health and criminal background checks for anybody buying a gun at a gun show.
#6: FAILING
The measure provides limited public funding to candidates accepting limits on spending and private contributions.
#7: PASSING
The measure would require state and local governments to pay property owners if law or regulation reduces property value.
#8: FAILING
The measure limits state spending to 15 percent of the state’s personal income in the prior biennium. This will reduce state government spending by an estimated $5.7 billion for the 2001-2003 biennium.
#9: FAILING
The measure prohibits public schools from encouraging or sanctioning homosexuality. Those schools that are found to have encouraged, sanctioned or promoted homosexuality would lose state funding.
