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Proposition 72

California Statewide • 1988 •  Initiative 

Failed

Result: 38.5% yes, 61.5% no

AI-generated plain-language summary

This measure would have required the state to maintain an emergency reserve fund equal to 5% of the General Fund and dedicated certain existing taxes exclusively to transportation purposes. It also would have changed the state's constitutional spending limit to accommodate these requirements.

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