2024 United States ballot measures

The following is a list of ballot measures, whether initiated by legislators or citizens, which have been certified to appear on various states' ballots during the 2024 United States elections as of September 6, 2024.

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%
	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%
	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%
	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%
Iowa	Legislature	Approved	Require Citizenship to Vote in Elections and Allow 17-Year-Olds to Vote in Primaries	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%	75.9%	24.1%
Arizona	Citizens	Approved	Proposition 139	Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother	Nov 5 83%	>50%	1,669,588 61.1%	1,064,562 38.9%
Colorado	Citizens	Approved	Amendment 79	Enshrines abortion in the Colorado Constitution and allows the use of public funds for abortion healthcare	Nov 5 92%	55%	1,835,127 61.9%	1,130,617 38.1%
District of Columbia	Citizens	Approved (projected)	Initiative 83	Allows independent voters to participate in partisan primaries and implements ranked-choice voting.	Nov 5 85%	>50%	186,277 72.7%	70,045 27.3%
Florida	Citizens	Failed (projected)	Amendment 4	Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother	Nov 5 99.0%	60%	6,054,370 57.1%	4,542,398 42.9%
Idaho	Legislature	Passed (projected)	Citizenship Requirement for Voting	Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote.	Nov 5 94%	>50%	550,652 64.9%	298,438 35.1%
	Citizens	Failed (projected)	Proposition 1	Implements a top-four nonpartisan blanket primary; with ranked-choice voting for the general election for state, county, and federal offices.			260,594 30.5%	595,182 69.5%
Kentucky	Legislature	Passed (projected)	Amendment 1	Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote.	Nov 5 92%	>50%	1,212,430 62.5%	727,121 37.5%
Maryland	Legislature	Approved	Question 1	Enshrines abortion in the Maryland Constitution	Nov 5 83%	>50%	1,940,792 74.9%	649,105 25.1%
Missouri	Citizens	Approved (projected)	Amendment 3	Enshrines abortion until fetal viability	Nov 5 99%	>50%	1,534,399 51.9%	1,424,781 48.1%
	Legislature	On ballot	Amendment 7	Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote, and ban ranked-choice voting in the state.		>50%	1,952,138 68.5%	899,408 31.5%
Montana	Fetal viability	Approved (projected)	CI-128	Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother	Nov 5 86.6%	>50%	290,899 57.4%	215,508 42.6%
Nebraska	Citizens	Approved (projected)	Initiative 434	Prohibits abortion after the first trimester	Nov 5 98.9%	>50%	496,586 55.3%	401,072 44.7%
	Citizens	Failed (projected)	Initiative 439	Enshrines abortion until fetal viability			437,673 48.7%	461,833 51.3%
Nevada	Citizens	Approved	Question 6	Enshrines abortion until fetal viability or to protect health of the mother	Nov 5 95%	>50%	860,866 64.1%	482,998 35.9%
New York	Legislature	Approved (projected)	Proposal 1	Prohibit a person's rights from being denied based on the person's reproductive choices, among others	Nov 5 85.0%	>50%	4,294,254 61.5%	2,686,909 38.5%
South Dakota	Citizens	Failed (projected)	Amendment G	Enshrines abortion during the first trimester, with limits on regulation during the second trimester	Nov 5 88.5%	>50%	151,411 40.3%	224,248 59.7%

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. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, every pro-abortion rights ballot measure has passed, and every ban by popular referendum has failed, even in more conservative states such as Kentucky.

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
		Citizens	On ballot	Initiative 439	Enshrines abortion until fetal viability			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
	Citizens	Failed	Proposition 140	Requires ranked-choice voting to be used in general elections, and creates nonpartisan blanket primaries.			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
	Citizens	On ballot	Proposition 1	Implements a top-four nonpartisan blanket primary; with ranked-choice voting for the general election for state, county, and federal offices.			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
	Citizens	On ballot	CI-127	Requires the state to adopt an election system where the winner must receive a majority of the vote.			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	On ballot	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

See also: List of 2024 United States cannabis reform proposals

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
	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		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
	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
	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		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
Maryland	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.

Results of Alabama Amendment 1

  No

•   50–60%
•   60–70%

  Yes

•   50–60%
•   60–70%
•   70–80%

Source...

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 repeal 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 behaviour 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.
• 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

Results of North Dakota Initiative Measure 1

  Yes

•   50–60%
•   60–70%

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• 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 a Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC), a 15-member citizen-only non-partisan commission for redrawing congressional and legislative districts

Oregon

• Legislatively-referred amendment: A measure to establish an Independent Public Service Compensation Commission to determine certain public officials' salaries.
• 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.
• Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows for the Legislature to impeach state elected officials.

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.

South Dakota

• Legislatively-referred amendment: Amendment E: Would change male-oriented language in state constitution to gender-neutral language.
• 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.
• 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".
• 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.

Utah

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

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.

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.

External links

• 2024 U.S. state ballot measures at Ballotpedia