# 2024 United States ballot measures

The following is a list of ballot measures, whether initiated by legislators or citizens, which were certified to appear on various states' ballots during the 2024 United States elections. The page includes those that did not make on the ballot but notes that status.

## Results

Elections that have been certified or unanimously projected will be shown here.
| State | Origin | Status | Measure | Description (Result of a "yes" vote) | Date | % req. | Yes | No |
| Alabama | Legislature | Failed | Amendment 1 | Exempts local laws or local constitutional amendments from the budget isolation resolution process. | Mar 5 | >50% | 341,515 48.69% | 359,850 51.31% |
| California | Legislature | Approved | Proposition 1 | Reforms the Mental Health Services Act and issues $6.38 billion in bonds for homeless individuals and veterans. | Mar 5 | >50% | 3,636,678 50.18% | 3,610,436 49.82% |
| Wisconsin | Legislature | Approved | Question 1 | Prohibits governments in the state from applying or accepting non-governmental funds or equipment for election administration. | Apr 2 | >50% | 638,555 54.43% | 534,612 45.57% |
| Wisconsin | Legislature | Approved | Question 2 | Mandates that only election officials may administer elections. | Apr 2 | >50% | 685,806 58.63% | 483,900 41.37% |
| North Dakota | Citizens | Approved | Initiated Measure 1 | Creates an age limit of 81 for congressional officeholders. | Jun 11 | >50% | 68,468 60.84% | 44,076 39.16% |
| Missouri | Legislature | Failed | Amendment 1 | Exempts childcare facilities from property taxes. | Aug 6 | >50% | 491,161 45.28% | 593,465 54.72% |
| Missouri | Legislature | Approved | Amendment 4 | Allows the legislature to increase minimum funding for a police force established by a state board of police commissioners. | Aug 6 | >50% | 549,919 51.13% | 525,657 48.87% |
| Wisconsin | Legislature | Failed | Question 1 | Prohibits the legislature from delegating its power to appropriate money. | Aug 13 | >50% | 521,538 42.55% | 704,260 57.45% |
| Wisconsin | Legislature | Failed | Question 2 | Requires legislative approval before the governor can expend federal money appropriated to the state. | Aug 13 | >50% | 521,639 42.47% | 706,637 57.53% |
| Alabama | Legislature | Approved | Amendment 1 | Transfers control of land to the Franklin County Board of Education. | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,159,794 74.37% | 399,640 25.63% |
| Alaska | Citizens | Approved | Measure 1 | Increases the minimum wage to $15/hr (currently $11.73/hr) by July 2027; provides 40–56 hours of paid sick leave a year depending on employer size; protects employees from being required to attend meetings on political and religious matters. | Nov 5 | >50% | 183,744 57.98% | 133,162 42.02% |
| Alaska | Citizens | Failed | Measure 2 | Repeal Alaska's electoral system of ranked-choice (instant-runoff) voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries and return the state to partisan primaries and plurality voting | Nov 5 | >50% | 160,124 49.89% | 160,861 50.11% |
| Arizona | Legislative | Failed | Proposition 133 | Require partisan primary elections for partisan offices and prohibit primary elections where all candidates, regardless of political party affiliation, run in the same primary election, such as top-two, top-four, and top-five primaries | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,286,640 42.18% | 1,763,711 57.82% |
| Arizona | Citizens | Approved | Proposition 139 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother | Nov 5 | >50% | 2,000,287 61.61% | 1,246,202 38.39% |
| Arizona | Citizens | Failed | Proposition 140 | Require primaries in which candidates, regardless of partisan affiliation, appear on a single ballot and a certain number advance to the general election, and require general election candidates to receive a majority of votes | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,284,176 41.32% | 1,823,445 58.68% |
| California | Legislature | Approved | Proposition 3 | Repeal Proposition 8 and the states Constitutional Amendment against same-sex marriage by declaring that a "right to marry is a fundamental right" in the California Constitution. | Nov 5 | >50% | 9,477,435 62.62% | 5,658,187 37.38% |
| California | Legislature | Failed | Proposition 6 | Eliminate the Constitutional provision permitting the use of involuntary servitude against incarcerated individuals. | Nov 5 | >50% | 6,895,604 46.66% | 7,882,137 53.34% |
| Colorado | Citizens | Approved | Amendment 79 | Enshrines abortion in the Colorado Constitution and allows the use of public funds for abortion healthcare | Nov 5 | 55% | 1,921,593 61.97% | 1,179,261 38.03% |
| Colorado | Legislature | Failed | Amendment 80 | Defines School Choice and enshrines in the State's Constitution that "each K-12 child has the right to school choice;", that “all children have the right to equal opportunity to access a quality education,” and that “parents have the right to direct the education of their children. | Nov 5 | 55% | 1,507,236 49.32% | 1,548,679 50.68% |
| Colorado | Citizens | Approved | Amendment J | Repeal Amendment 43 and the state's Constitutional Amendment against same-sex marriage. | Nov 5 | 55% | 1,982,200 64.33% | 1,099,288 35.37% |
| Colorado | Citizens | Failed | Proposition 131 | Establish top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting for federal and state offices in Colorado | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,385,060 46.47% | 1,595,256 53.53% |
| District of Columbia | Citizens | Approved | Initiative 83 | Allows independent voters to participate in partisan primaries and implements ranked-choice voting. | Nov 5 | >50% | 212,332 72.89% | 78,961 27.11% |
| Florida | Citizens | Failed | Amendment 3 | Legalize marijuana for adults 21 years old and older and allow for individuals to possess up to three ounces of marijuana | Nov 5 | 60% | 5,950,589 55.90% | 4,693,524 44.10% |
| Florida | Citizens | Failed | Amendment 4 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother | Nov 5 | 60% | 6,070,758 57.17% | 4,548,379 42.83% |
| Hawaii | Legislature | Approved | Amendment 1 | Repeal Amendment 2 and the Legislature's ability reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples. | Nov 5 | >50% | 268,038 55.94% | 211,142 44.06% |
| Idaho | Legislature | Passed | Citizenship Requirement for Voting | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | 572,865 64.93% | 309,456 35.07% |
| Idaho | Citizens | Failed | Proposition 1 | Implements a top-four nonpartisan blanket primary; with ranked-choice voting for the general election for state, county, and federal offices. | Nov 5 | >50% | 269,959 30.38% | 618,751 69.62% |
| Iowa | Legislature | Approved | Amendment 1 | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote, and would allow some 17-year-olds to vote in primaries, provided they turn 18 by the next general election. | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,150,332 77.13% | 341,034 22.87% |
| Kentucky | Legislature | Passed | Amendment 1 | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,208,898 62.43% | 727,515 37.57% |
| Kentucky | Legislature | Failed | Amendment 2 | Enable the General Assembly to provide state funding to students outside of public schools. | Nov 5 | >50% | 706,942 35.24% | 1,298,967 64.76% |
| Maryland | Legislature | Approved | Question 1 | Enshrines abortion in the Maryland Constitution | Nov 5 | >50% | 2,199,319 76.06% | 692,219 23.94% |
| Massachusetts | Legislature | Failed | Question 4 | Allow persons 21 years of age or older to grow, possess, and use natural psychedelic substances, as well as establish a commission to regulate the licensing of psychedelic substances and services. | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,444,812 43.16% | 1,902,207 56.84% |
| Missouri | Citizens | Approved | Amendment 3 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,538,659 51.60% | 1,443,022 48.40% |
| Missouri | Legislature | On ballot | Amendment 7 | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote, and ban ranked-choice voting in the state. | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,966,852 68.44% | 906,851 31.56% |
| Montana | Citizens | Failed | CI-126 | Establish top-four primaries for federal and state offices in Montana | Nov 5 | >50% | 287,837 48.91% | 300,664 51.09% |
| Montana | Citizens | Failed | CI-127 | Require an electoral system in which candidates for certain offices must win a majority of the vote, rather than a plurality, to win the election | Nov 5 | >50% | 228,908 29.62% | 348,805 60.38% |
| Montana | Citizens | Approved | CI-128 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother | Nov 5 | >50% | 345,070 57.76% | 252,300 42.24% |
| Nebraska | Citizens | Approved | Initiative 434 | Prohibits abortion after the first trimester | Nov 5 | >50% | 509,288 54.94% | 417,624 45.06% |
| Nebraska | Citizens | Approved | Initiative 437 | Establish the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission to regulate the state's medical marijuana program. | Nov 5 | >50% | 637,126 71.05% | 259,643 32.71% |
| Nebraska | Citizens | Approved | Initiative 438 | Legalize the medical use of marijuana in the state | Nov 5 | >50% | 600,481 67.29% | 291,867 28.95% |
| Nebraska | Citizens | Failed | Initiative 439 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability | Nov 5 | >50% | 455,184 49.01% | 473,652 50.99% |
| Nevada | Citizens | Approved | Question 6 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother | Nov 5 | >50% | 905,170 64.36% | 501,232 35.64% |
| Nevada | Citizens | Failed | Question 3 | Establish top-five primaries and ranked-choice voting for federal and state offices in Nevada | Nov 5 | >50% | 664,011 47.04% | 747,719 52.96% |
| Nevada | Citizens | Approved | Question 4 | Remove Language in the Nevada State Constitution permitting the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments | Nov 5 | >50% | 835,627 60.60% | 543,236 39.40% |
| North Carolina | Legislature | Approved | Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment | Prohibit the state and local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote | Nov 5 | >50% | 4,184,680 77.59% | 1,208,865 22.41% |
| North Dakota | Citizens | Failed | Measure 5 | Legalize recreational marijuana, allowing individuals to possess up to 1 oz of marijuana, 4g of concentrate, 300mg of edibles; and allowing for individuals to grow three plants with a limit of six plants per household. | Nov 5 | >50% | 172,174 47.47% | 190,548 52.53% |
| New York | Legislature | Approved | Proposal 1 | Prohibit a person's rights from being denied based on the person's reproductive choices, among others | Nov 5 | >50% | 4,757,097 56.99% | 2,857,663 34.23% |
| Oklahoma | Legislature | Failed | Question 833 | Allows municipalities to create infrastructure districts with the ability to issue bonds | Nov 5 | >50% | 559,982 38.89% | 898,526 61.61% |
| Oklahoma | Legislature | Approved | Question 834 | Prohibits the state and local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,207,520 80.73% | 288,267 19.27% |
| Oregon | Legislative | Failed | Measure 117 | Establish ranked-choice voting for federal and state offices in Oregon | Nov 5 | >50% | 893,668 42.30% | 1,219,013 57.70% |
| South Carolina | Legislature | Approved | Amendment 1 | Prohibits the state and local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote | Nov 5 | >50% | 1,982,956 85.94% | 324,432 14.06% |
| South Dakota | Legislature | Failed | Amendment E | Amend the text of the South Dakota Constitution to change male pronouns to gender-neutral terms or titles | Nov 5 | >50% | 180,365 42.62% | 242,866 57.38% |
| South Dakota | Citizens | Failed | Amendment G | Enshrines abortion during the first trimester, with limits on regulation during the second trimester | Nov 5 | >50% | 176,809 41.41% | 250,136 58.59% |
| South Dakota | Citizens | Failed | Amendment H | Establish top-two primaries for federal, state, and certain local offices in South Dakota | Nov 5 | >50% | 141,570 34.39% | 270,048 65.51% |
| South Dakota | Citizens | Failed | Measure 29 | Legalize the recreational use, possession, and distribution of marijuana. | Nov 5 | >50% | 189,916 44.46% | 237,228 55.54% |
| Wisconsin | Legislature | Approved | Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment | Prohibit the state and local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote | Nov 5 | >50% | 2,272,446 70.51% | 950,445 29.49% |
| Wyoming | Legislature | Approved | Amendment A | Separates residential property into its own class for purposes of property tax assessment | Nov 5 | >50% | 146,336 53.97% | 100,392 37.03% |

## By topic

Included in this section is any ballot measure that has either been certified for the ballot or has passed at least one house in the legislature.

### Abortion

As of September 11, 2024, 10 states have certified a referendum on abortion for the 2024 United States elections. This is the most for a single election cycle on record.
| State | Current policy | Origin | Status | Measure | Description (Result of a "yes" vote) | Date | % req. | Result |
| Arizona | 15th week | Citizens | Approved | Proposition 139 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Colorado | Any stage | Citizens | Approved | Amendment 79 | Enshrines abortion in the Colorado Constitution and allows the use of public funds for abortion healthcare | Nov 5 | 55% | TBD |
| Florida | 6th week | Citizens | On ballot | Amendment 4 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother | Nov 5 | 60% | TBD |
| Hawaii | Fetal viability | Legislature | Died in legislature | Right to Abortion | Enshrines abortion and the right to use contraceptives | — | >50% | N/A |
| Iowa | 6th week | Legislature | Died in legislature | No State Constitutional Right to Abortion | Prohibits abortion | — | >50% | N/A |
| Maine | Fetal viability | Legislature | Died in legislature | Right to Personal Reproductive Autonomy | Enshrines abortion | — | >50% | N/A |
| Maryland | Fetal viability | Legislature | Approved | Question 1 | Enshrines abortion in the Maryland Constitution | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Minnesota | All stages | Legislature | Died in legislature | Equal Under the Law | Enshrines abortion | — | >50% | N/A |
| Missouri | Banned | Citizens | On ballot | Amendment 3 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Montana | Fetal viability | Citizens | On ballot | CI-128 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Nebraska | 12th week | Citizens | On ballot | Initiative 434 | Prohibits abortion after the first trimester | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Nebraska | 12th week | Citizens | On ballot | Initiative 439 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Nevada | 24th week | Citizens | Approved, must pass again in 2026 to be added. | Question 6 | Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| New York | 24th week and fetal viability | Legislature | On ballot | Proposal 1 | Prohibit a person's rights from being denied based on the person's reproductive choices, among others | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Pennsylvania | 24th week | Legislature | Not re-approved | No State Constitutional Right to Abortion | Amends the Pennsylvania Constitution to state that no abortion-related rights are given by the document | — | >50% | N/A |
| South Dakota | Banned | Citizens | On ballot | Amendment G | Enshrines abortion during the first trimester, with limits on regulation during the second trimester | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Wisconsin | 22nd week | Legislature | Died in legislature | 14-Week Abortion Ban | Prohibits abortion after the 14th week | — | >50% | N/A |

### Voting

| State | Origin | Status | Measure | Description (Result of a "yes" vote) | Date | % req. | Result |
| Alaska | Citizens | On ballot | Ballot Measure 2 | Repeals the state's top-four primaries and ranked-choice elections. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Arizona | Legislature | Failed | Proposition 133 | Prohibits nonpartisan blanket primaries. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Arizona | Citizens | Failed | Proposition 140 | Requires ranked-choice voting to be used in general elections, and creates nonpartisan blanket primaries. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Colorado | Citizens | Failed | Proposition 131 | Implements a top-four nonpartisan blanket primary; with ranked-choice voting for the general election for state and federal offices. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| District of Columbia | Citizens | On ballot | Initiative 83 | Allows independent voters to participate in partisan primaries and implements ranked-choice voting. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Idaho | Legislature | On ballot | Citizenship Requirement for Voting | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Idaho | Citizens | Failed | Proposition 1 | Implements a top-four nonpartisan blanket primary; with ranked-choice voting for the general election for state, county, and federal offices. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Kentucky | Legislature | On ballot | Amendment 1 | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Missouri | Legislature | On ballot | Amendment 7 | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote, and ban ranked-choice voting in the state. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Montana | Citizens | On ballot | CI-126 | Implements top-four primaries for state and federal offices. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Montana | Citizens | On ballot | CI-127 | Requires the state to adopt an election system where the winner must receive a majority of the vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Nevada | Citizens | Failed | Question 3 | Implements a top-five nonpartisan blanket primary; with ranked-choice voting for the general election for state and federal offices. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| North Carolina | Legislature | Approved | Citizenship Requirement for Voting | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Oklahoma | Legislature | Approved | Citizenship Requirement for Voting | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Oregon | Legislature | Failed | Measure 117 | Implements ranked-choice voting for primary and general elections for statewide executive and federal offices. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| South Carolina | Legislature | Approved | Citizenship Requirement for Voting | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| South Dakota | Citizens | Failed | Amendment H | Implements top-two primaries for state, county, and federal offices. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Wisconsin | Legislature | Approved | Citizenship Voting Requirement | Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |

### Marijuana

| State | Origin | Status | Measure | Description (Result of a "yes" vote) | Date | % req. | Result |
| Arkansas | Citizens | On ballot, votes will not be counted | Issue 3 | Adds a new subsection to the state constitution that would prohibit legislators from changing or repealing constitutional amendments without approval from voters unless the amendment expressly allows them to do so. This measure also expands the current medical marijuana program to allow physicians to recommend marijuana to patients for any debillitating medical condition and allows the growing of up to 14 plants for patients at least 21 years of age. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Florida | Citizens | Failed | Amendment 3 | Legalizes possession of up to 3 ounces of marijuana for adults aged 21 and over, allows Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers, and other state licensed entities, to acquire, process and distribute cannabis products. | Nov 5 | >60% | TBD |
| Nebraska | Citizens | Approved despite legal challenges | Initiative 437 | Legalizes the use of up to five ounces of marijuana for medical use by qualified patients. | Nov 5 | >60% | TBD |
| North Dakota | Legislature | Failed | Constitutional Measure 5 | Legalizes production, processing, and sale of marijuana for recreational use for adults 21 and older. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| South Dakota | Citizens | Failed | Initiated Measure 29 | Legalizes the possession of, distribution and recreational usage of marijuana for adults 21 or older. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |

### Law and crime

| State | Origin | Status | Measure | Description (Result of a "yes" vote) | Date | % req. | Result |
| Arizona | Legislature | Approved | Proposition 313 | Requires life imprisonment for people convicted of child sex trafficking. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Arizona | Legislature | Approved | Proposition 314 | Makes it a state crime for noncitizens to unlawfully enter the state and allows police to arrest them for doing so; allows state judges to order deportations; requires the immigration status of individuals to be determined before enrollment in a financial aid or public welfare program; makes it a class 6 felony to submit false documents to employers to evade detection of employment eligibility, or to apply for public benefits; and makes it a class 2 felony if a person knowingly sells fentanyl and results in a death of another person. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| California | Citizens | On ballot | Proposition 36 | Classifies certain drug offenses as felonies; increases penalties for certain drug crimes; increases sentences for theft depending on property value. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Colorado | Legislature | Approved | Amendment I | Removes right to bail for first-degree murder when proof is evident. | Nov 5 | 55% | TBD |
| Colorado | Citizens | Approved | Proposition 128 | Requires offenders convicted of certain violent crimes to serve at least 85% of their sentence before being eligible for parole; requires offenders with two prior violent crime convictions to serve their full sentence before beginning parole. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Colorado | Citizens | Approved | Proposition 130 | Provides $350 million in additional funding to law enforcement to help recruit, train, and retain police officers; provides additional benefits to families of officers killed in the line of duty. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |

### Labor

| State | Origin | Status | Measure | Description (Result of a "yes" vote) | Date | % req. | Result |
| Alaska | Citizens | On ballot | Ballot Measure 1 | Increases the minimum wage to $15/hr (currently $11.73/hr) by July 2027; provides 40–56 hours of paid sick leave a year depending on employer size; protects employees from being required to attend meetings on political and religious matters. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Arizona | Legislature | Failed | Proposition 138 | Permits employers to pay tipped employees up to 25% less than the minimum wage (currently $14.35/hr), but only if the employee received the minimum wage plus $2 for every hour worked. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| California | Citizens | On ballot | Proposition 32 | Increases the minimum wage to $18/hr (currently $16/hr) by 2026, subject to annual increase based on inflation. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Massachusetts | Citizens | On ballot | Question 5 | Increases the minimum wage for tipped employees (currently $6.75/hr) to the state minimum wage of $15/hr by 2029 while continuing to permit tipping. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Missouri | Citizens | On ballot | Proposition A | Increases the minimum wage to $15/hr (currently $12.30/hr) by 2026; requires 1 hour of paid sick leave per 30 hours worked. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Nebraska | Citizens | On ballot | Initiative 436 | Requires between five and seven days of paid sick leave for employees depending on the size of the business. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |

### LGBT rights

| State | Origin | Status | Measure | Description (Result of a "yes" vote) | Date | % req. | Result |
| California | Legislature | On ballot | Proposition 3 | Repeals 2008's Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriage in the state. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Colorado | Legislature | Approved | Amendment J | Repeals 2006's Amendment 43, which outlawed same-sex marriage in the state. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |
| Hawaii | Legislature | On ballot | 2802 HD1 | Repeals the state legislature's authority to restrict same-sex marriage. | Nov 5 | >50% | TBD |

## Alabama
### March 5

* Legislatively-referred amendment: would exempt locally-focused bills, including constitutional amendments, from the budget isolation resolution process. This amendment did not pass.

### November 5

* Legislatively-referred amendment: would let the Franklin County Board of Education be able to sell, manage, lease land or natural resources from lands in the county schools system within Walker and Fayette counties.

## Alaska

* Indirect initiated state statute: This amendment would require that the minimum be increased to $15 per hour by July 1, 2027, give employees the ability to receive up to 56 hours of paid sick leave a year if their employer has 15 employees or more, and if their employer has less than 15 employees they can get up to 40 hours of paid sick leave. Also bars employers from taking action against employees who refuse to attend employer sponsored meetings regarding religious or political matters.
* Indirect initiated state statue: Would have repealed the ranked choice voting system that was started in 2020.

## Arizona

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 133, a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would require a partisan primary election for partisan offices.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 134, creates a constitutional signature distribution requirement for citizen-initiated ballot measures based on state legislative districts raising the requirement from 10% of voters to 15%.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 135, would allow the legislature to terminate a state of emergency or alter the emergency powers of the governor during the emergency; requires emergencies declared by the governor to terminate automatically in 30 days unless extended by legislative approval.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 136, Would provide challenges to an initiative measure or constitutional amendment after the filing of the measure with the Secretary of State.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 137, Would end term limits for state supreme court justices and superior court judge and replace it with terms of good behavior through a judicial review commission.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Proposition 138, Allows tipped workers to be paid 25% less per hour than the minimum wage if any tips received by the employee were not less than the minimum wage plus $2 for all hours worked.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Proposition 139, would establish a state constitutional right to abortion.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Proposition 140, would require ranked-choice voting to be used in general elections, and, contradicting Proposition 133, create nonpartisan blanket primaries.
* Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 311, establishes a $20 fee on every conviction for a criminal offense, which would go to a $250,000 benefit to the family of a first responder killed in the line of duty.
* Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 313, Provides life imprisonment for an individual who is convicted of sex trafficking of a child.
* Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 314, Authorise state and local police to arrest noncitizens who cross the border unlawfully, allows state judges to order deportations, require the use of the e-verify program for some public governmental programs and employment eligibility purposes, and make the sale of fentanyl a Class 2 felony if a person knowingly sells fentanyl resulting in the death of another person.
* Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 315, Prohibits proposed rule from becoming effective if that rule is estimated to increase regulatory costs by more than $500,000 within five years after implementation, until the legislature enacts legislation ratifying the proposed rule.

## Arkansas

* Citizen-initiated amendment: Repeals the authorisation for a casino license in Pope County and require countywide voter approval for any new casino licenses.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows state lottery proceeds to fund scholarships and grants for vocational and technical colleges.

## California
### March

* Legislatively-referred statute: Proposition 1, Changes the funding structure and name of the Mental Health Services Act, issues bonds for veteran housing and homeless projects. This amendment passed.

### November

* Bond Issue: Would issue $10 billion in bonds to fund construction and modernisation of public education facilities.
* Citizen-initiated statute: Increases minimum wage to $18 by 2026
* Legislatively-referred amendment: lowers vote threshold from 66.67% to 55% for local special taxes and bond measures to fund housing projects
* Citizen-initiated statute: Repeals the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act; removes ability of state to limit local rent control
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Repeals Proposition 8 and establish a right to marry regardless of sex
* Citizen-initiated amendment: would all state or local taxes be approved by two-thirds of the electorate for either jurisdiction
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Requires ballot measures which raise vote thresholds to supermajority votes to pass by the same proposed threshold first
* Legislatively-referred amendment: ACA 8, would repeal the prisoner exception from California's constitutional ban on slavery, and prohibit the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from disciplining any incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment, while allowing for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award credits to an incarcerated person who voluntarily accepts a work assignment.

### Withdrawn from November ballot

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Would repeal constitutional requirement that voters approve publicly-funded housing developments at certain rent levels.
* Citizen-initiated statute: Repeals the Private Attorneys General Act.
* Citizen-initiated amendment/statute: increases the income tax by 0.75% for 10 years to develop the California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Institute.
* Veto referendum: Repeals SB 1137, which would prohibit the construction of oil and gas wells within health protection zones.
* Veto referendum: repeals AB 257, which would establish a fast-food workers council.

## Colorado

* Legislatively-referred statute: Would impose a 6.5% excise tax on firearms and ammunition sales to fund crime victim services, education, and mental health programs for children and veterans.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Creates an independent judicial discipline adjudicative board to create rules for the judicial discipline process.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Changes the deadlines for filing initiative and referendum petition signatures and judicial retention notice deadlines to remove one week in order to allow one extra week for the secretary of state to certify ballot order and content and election officials' deadline to transmit ballots.
* Citizen-initiated statute: Prohibit trophy hunting, defined as "intentionally killing, wounding, pursuing, or entrapping a mountain lion, bobcat, or lynx; or discharging or releasing any deadly weapon at a mountain lion, bobcat, or lynx".
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Extends property tax exemption for veterans with disabilities to veterans with individual unemployability status.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Requires statewide voter approval for local governments to retain property tax revenue which exceeds 4% from the total statewide property tax revenue collected in the previous year.
* Legislative-referred amendment: Remove Constitutional Same-Sex Marriage Ban Amendment, would remove the provision of the state constitution that says "Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognised as a marriage in this state".
* Legislative-referred amendment: Removes the right to bail in cases of first degree murder when the proof is evident or the presumption is great.
* Legislatively-referred statute: Allows the state to retain tax revenue collected above $29 million annually from the tax on sports betting proceeds.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Right to Abortion and Health Insurance Coverage Initiative, also known as Amendment 79 would create a right to abortion in the state constitution and repeal constitutional provision banning the use of public funds for abortion.

## Connecticut

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Authorizes the state legislature to provide by law for no-excuse absentee voting

## Florida

NOTE: Proposed amendments, whether initiated by the legislature or by citizen petition, must receive 60% in favor in order to pass.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment 1, Makes school board elections partisan instead of nonpartisan, allows for partisan primaries for school board elections starting in 2026.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment 2, Gives a state constitutional right to hunt and fish.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Amendment 3, would legalize possession of up to 3 ounces of recreational cannabis for adults aged 21 and over, allows Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers, and other state licensed entities, to acquire, process and distribute cannabis products. This amendment failed.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Amendment 4, would legalize abortion up to viability, would require parental consent for minors who are pregnant.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment 5, Provide for an annual inflation adjustment for the value of the homestead property tax exemption.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment 6, would repeal an amendment to provide public funding for candidates who agree to spending limits for their campaigns.

## Georgia

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Georgia Creation of Tax Court Amendment, would create the Georgia Tax Court which would have "concurrent jurisdiction with the state business court and superior courts in equity cases."
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Georgia Personal Property Tax Exemption Increase Measure, this would increase the personal property tax exemption from $7,500 to $20,000.

## Idaho

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Amend the state constitution so that only US citizens may be able to vote in Idaho.
* Initiated state statute: This would replace partisan primary elections with an open "top-four" nonpartisan primary election for the US Senate and US House, state offices and county elected offices. A ranked-choice voting system would be created for general elections.

## Indiana

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Removes the superintendent of public instruction from the gubernatorial line of succession.

## Iowa

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Iowa Require Citizenship to Vote in State Elections and Allow 17-Year-Olds to Vote in Primaries Amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote; and supports allowing 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the general election to vote in primary elections. This amendment passed.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Would provide for the lieutenant governor to assume the office of governor for the remainder of the term if the governor dies, resigns or is removed from office. This amendment passed.

## Kentucky

* Legislatively-referred amendment: School choice amendment: would allow the Kentucky General Assembly to fund charter schools.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: would ban noncitizens from voting.

## Maine

* Legislatively-referred statute: State flag referendum, would change the flag of Maine; the candidate flag is a modernized version of the state's previous flag previous 1901 flag.
* Indirect initiated state statue: Campaign Contribution Limits Initiative, would limit the number of campaign contributions made by individuals and entities toward political action committees (PACs) to $5,000 per year.

## Maryland

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Maryland Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add a new article into the Maryland Constitution's Declaration of Rights establishing a "right to reproductive freedom".

## Massachusetts

* Voter referendum: An initiative to remove the MCAS test as requirement to graduate high school.
* Voter referendum: An initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers.
* Voter referendum: An initiative to authorize the state auditor to audit the state legislature, and remove some existing regulations regarding the auditing process.
* Voter referendum: An initiative to legalize some psychedelic substances for medical and research use. This referendum failed.
* There are 2 competing questions that relate to the classification of app based workers such as Uber drivers.
* Voter referendum: One would consider app-based drivers to be independent contractors and enacts several labor policies related to app-based companies.
* Voter referendum: The second would allow these app based workers to unionize and use collective bargaining.

## Minnesota

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Extends lottery-derived revenue direction to Environment and Natural Resources Fund for 25 years

## Missouri
### August 6

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows for property tax exemption for childcare facilities.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Raises the minimum funding level for the Kansas City Police Department. This Amendment passed.

### November 5

* Legislatively-referred amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote. Would also prohibit ranked-choice voting.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Define the administration of justice to include the levying of costs and fees to support the salaries and benefits for law enforcement personnel.
* Citizen-initiated statute: Establish a $13.75 per hour minimum wage by 2025, which would be increased by $1.25 per hour each year until 2026, when it is increased to $15 an hour; also requires employers to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Amendment 3, establishes right to reproductive freedom and legalizes abortion until fetal viability.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Legalizes and regulates sports betting in Missouri.

## Montana

* Citizen-initiated amendment: CI-126, create a top-four styled primary where candidates would run regardless of party for governor, lieutenant governor and other state executive positions along with state legislators "and congressional officers". The candidates that get the top four largest amount of the vote would go onto the general election regardless of whichever party they belong to.

## Nebraska

* Citizen-initiated amendment: Nebraska Measure 434. Limit abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy except when medically necessary or in cases of sexual assault or incest. This amendment passed.
* Citizen-initiated state statute: Nebraska Measure 436: Nebraska Paid Sick Leave Initiative. Require employers to give sick leave for employees. Those who work less than 80 hours during a single "calendar year" would not be included. Employers who have less than 20 employees they would have to provide 40 hours per year per employee. While those who have over 20 must provide 56 hours per employee. This amendment passed.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Nebraska Measure 437, legalizes the use of up to five ounces of marijuana for medical use by qualified patients. This amendment passed, amid ongoing legal challenges.

### Withdrawn from the ballot

* Voter referendum: would repeal tax credit for taxpayers who contribute to education scholarships.

## Nevada

As of September 2024, six ballot measures have been certified to appear on the 2024 general election ballot:
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 1, A legislative-initiated initiative to remove the constitutional status of the Nevada Board of Regents (similar language as State Question 1 in 2022);
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 2, A legislative-initiated initiative to revise language regarding public entities that benefit individuals with mental illness, blindness, or deafness;
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Question 3, Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative, a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to change state and federal elections to use Nonpartisan blanket primaries in the first round of elections and ranked-choice voting in the second round among the top five candidates. Amendment was first approved by voters in 2022.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Question 4, A legislative-initiated initiative to remove a penal exception for slavery and involuntary servitude from the state constitution;
* Legislatively-referred statute: Question 5, would create a sales tax exemption for child and adult diapers.
* Citizen-initiated amendment: Right to Abortion Initiative, This would provide for a state constitutional right to an abortion until a person reaches fetal viability.

## New Hampshire
### November 5

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Increase Mandatory Judicial Retirement Age Amendment, This would increase the mandatory retirement age for anyone serving as a judge in New Hampshire from 70 to 75.

## New Mexico

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Proportionally applies disabled veterans property tax exemption according to veteran's disability rating
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Increases property tax exemption for veterans from $4,000 to $10,000, adjusting for inflation

## New York

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Equal Protection of Law Amendment: would amend the Equal Protection Clause of the state constitution to ensure equality under the law regardless of "ethnicity, national origin, age, disability", and "sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy". Current text, drafted in 1938, only protects "race, color, creed, or religion".

## North Dakota
### June 11

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Initiative Measure 1 places an age limit of 81 years old for one to be elected or appointed to the US Senate or US House of Representatives if an "individual would become 81 years old by December 31 of the year preceding the end of their term". This amendment passed.

### November 5

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 1, would update language in state constitution to reflect changes in language regarding disabilities.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 2, would institute a single-subject rule for citizen initiatives, increase petition threshold and require passage of citizen-initiated constitutional amendments at two consecutive elections
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 3, would change requirements for transfers from the state legacy fund
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 4, would prohibit all political subdivisions from levying any property tax
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Constitutional Measure 5, legalizes production, processing, and sale of marijuana for recreational use. This measure failed.

## Ohio

* Citizen-initiated amendment: Issue 1, would replace the seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission, consisting of elected officials, with an Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC), a 15-member citizen-only non-partisan commission for redrawing congressional and legislative districts

## Oklahoma

* Legislatively referred amendment: State Question 834, asked whether those who are only US citizens and are 18 years old or older to be able to vote. This amendment passed.

## Oregon

* Legislatively-referred amendment: A measure to establish an Independent Public Service Compensation Commission to determine certain public officials' salaries. This amendment failed.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: A measure that would create ranked-choice elections for US President, US Senator, US Representative, Governor, State Secretary of State, State Attorney General, State Treasurer, Commissioner of Labor and Industries starting in 2028. This amendment failed.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows for the Legislature to impeach state elected officials. This amendment passed.

## Rhode Island

* Constitutional convention question: would ask voters on whether to hold a state constitutional convention

## South Carolina

* Legislatively-referred amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote. This amendment passed.

## South Dakota

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment E: Would change male-oriented language in state constitution to gender-neutral language. This amendment failed
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment H: Would create a top-two styled primary system in elections for governor, state legislature, a county office, US Senate and the US House of Representatives. This amendment failed.
* Citizen-initiated-statute: Initiated Measure 28: Ban placing a state sales tax on items sold for human consumption with the exception of alcohol or "prepared food". This amendment failed.
* Citizen-initiated-statute: Initiated Measure 29: Legalize the possession of, distribution and recreational usage of marijuana for those who are at least 21 years of age. This amendment failed.

## Utah

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Increases the annual distributions from the State School Fund for public education from 4% to 5%. This amendment passed.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Provides for elections of county sheriffs to serve four-year terms. This amendment passed.

### Withdrawn from ballot

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Would have repealed constitutional requirement that income tax and intangible property tax revenue collected by the state government be distributed to educational funding; allows for distribution of revenue to other purposes by the state after educational funding requirements are met.

## Washington
### November 5

* Citizen-initiated statute: Initiative 2066: would prohibit the state and local governments from passing laws restricting the ability of homes and businesses to use and access natural gas, would require utilities that use natural gas to install it in homes, and would prohibiting changes to the law to make natural gas more expensive or less competitive.
* Initiative to the Legislature: Initiative 2109: would repeal the passage of SB 5096-2021-22, which imposed a 7% capital gains tax on the sale of capital assets worth more than $250,000.
* Initiative to the Legislature: Initiative 2117: would repeal the passage of the 2021 Washington Climate Commitment Act (CCA), which created a maximum legal amount of carbon emissions for the state and requires companies with emissions exceeding 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year to pay a tax commiserate to the amount of carbon released by the company over the previous year.
* Initiative to the Legislature: Initiative 2124: would allow individuals and businesses to opt out of the WA Cares program, a long term disability program created by the state in 2019.

## West Virginia

* Legislatively-referred amendment: would amend West Virginia's constitution to prohibit medically assisted suicide. This amendment passed.

## Wisconsin
### April 2

* Legislatively-referred amendment: provides that only election officials designated by law may administer elections. This amendment passed.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: prohibits all levels of government in the state from receiving non-governmental funding or equipment for election administration. This amendment passed.

### August 13

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Would have banned the Wisconsin State Legislature from "delegating its power to appropriate money". This amendment did not pass.
* Legislatively-referred amendment: Would have required the Governor of Wisconsin to get approval from the state legislature in order to spend federal money which has been appropriated to Wisconsin. The amendment did not pass.

### November 5

* Legislatively-referred amendment: would specify that only citizens aged 18 and above may vote in elections at all levels of government. This amendment passed.

## Wyoming

* Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows legislature to exempt property from taxation in part in full "to preserve home ownership in Wyoming for the elderly and infirm if necessary for the support of the poor.".

## Other jurisdictions
### Puerto Rico

* 2024 Puerto Rican status referendum

### District of Columbia

* Initiative: Initiative 83, eliminate closed party primaries, establish ranked choice-voting starting in 2026 and create a semi-open primary where voters unaffiliated with a party can vote in the party primary.