Ballot Items in Idaho
Source: Stateline.org
Eminent domain (Proposition 2)
This measure would change Idaho law to make it more difficult for state or local government to seize private property under the power of eminent domain. Text of Ballot Item
Permanent endowment fund (SJR 107)
If this measure is adopted, 80 percent of the tobacco settlement money Idaho receives each year will be deposited into a newly created permanent endowment fund and 20 percent will be deposited into the existing Idaho Millennium Fund. Text of Ballot Item
Property tax (advisory vote)
The measure asks voters whether the state should maintain the property tax relief adopted in August 2006, reducing property taxes by approximately $260 million and protecting funding for public schools by keeping the sales tax at 6 percent. Text of Ballot Item
Sales tax increase (Proposition 1)
This measure would increase kindergarten through 12th-grade education funding for local public schools by increasing the state sales tax by 1 percent. Text of Ballot Item
Same-sex marriage (HJR 2)
This measure would alter the Idaho Constitution so that the only marriage the state would recognize would be between a man and a woman. The language would prohibit recognition of civil unions, domestic partnerships, or any other relationship that attempts to approximate marriage. Text of Ballot Item
