2024 United States ballot measures

• Legislatively-referred amendment: Require Partisan Primaries Amendment: a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would require a partisan primary election for partisan offices.[1]
• Legislatively-referred amendment: creates a constitutional signature distribution requirement for citizen-initiated ballot measures based on state legislative districts
• Legislatively-referred amendment: 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 statute: 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 amendment: Allows state lottery proceeds to fund scholarships and grants for vocational and technical colleges

• Citizen-initiated statute: Increases minimum wage to $18 by 2026[2]
• Citizen-initiated statute: Repeals the Private Attorneys General Act
• Veto referendum: repeals AB 257, which would establish a fast-food workers council
• Legislatively-initiated amendment: lowers vote threshold from 66.67% to 55% for local special taxes and bond measures to fund housing projects
• Veto referendum: Repeals SB 1137, which would prohibit the construction of oil and gas wells within health protection zones
• Citizen-initiated amendment/statute: increases the income tax by 0.75% for 10 years to develop the California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Institute
• Citizen-initiated statute: Repeals the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act; removes ability of state to limit local rent control
• Legislatively-initiated amendment: Would repeal constitutional requirement that voters approve publicly-funded housing developments at certain rent levels
• Legislatively-initiated amendment: Repeals Proposition 8 and establish a right to marry regardless
• Citizen-initiated amendment: would all state or local taxes be approved by two-thirds of the electorate for either jurisdiction
•  :Legislatively-initiated amendment: Requires ballot measures which raise vote thresholds to majority votes to pass by the same proposed threshold first

• Legislatively-referred amendment: Creates an independent judicial discipline adjudicative board to create rules for the judicial discipline process
• 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

• Legislatively-referred amendment: Authorizes the state legislature to provide by law for no-excuse absentee voting[3]

• Legislatively-referred amendment: Gives a state constitutional right to hunt and fish.[4]
• Legislatively-referred amendment: Makes school board elections partisan instead of being nonpartisan.[5]
• Citizen-initiated amendment: 2024 Florida marijuana legalization initiative would legalize marijuana for recreational usage.[6]

• 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.[7]

• Legislatively-referred statute: Would change the Maine state flag

• 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".[8]

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

As of June 2023, four ballot measures have been certified to appear on the 2024 general election ballot:

• Legislatively-referred amendment: A legislative-initiated initiative to remove the constitutional status of the Nevada Board of Regents (similar language as State Question 1 in 2022);[9]
• Legislatively-referred amendment: A legislative-initiated initiative to remove a penal exception for slavery and involuntary servitude from the state constitution;[10]
• Legislatively-referred amendment: A legislative-initiated initiative to revise language regarding public entities that benefit individuals with mental illness, blindness, or deafness;[11]
• Citizen-initiated amendment: 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.[12]

• Legislatively-referred amendment: Presidential Primary Amendment: A legislatively-referred amendment that would require the New Hampshire presidential primary to be the first presidential primary in a presidential election cycle.[13]

• 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

• 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".[14] Current text, drafted in 1938, only protects "race, color, creed, or religion". Sent to the voters

• Legislatively-referred amendment: A measure to establish an Independent Public Service Compensation Commission to determine certain public officials' salaries.[15]
• 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.[16]
• Legislatively-referred amendment: Allows for the Legislature to impeach state elected officials.[17]

• 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

• 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."