Brown handily defeated GOP challenger Neel Kashkari and voters also approved the two propositions that the incumbent championed — a $7.5-billion 7.5-billion watere and a state rainy-day fund.
None of the French- or Italian-speaking cantons approved of the proposition.
Item non-response and protest zero bids were more frequently given by those rejecting than those approving the actual proposition.
Voters approved the initiative, known as Proposition 227, by a wide margin in 1998, but opponents claimed it was discriminatory, particularly against the state's large number of Spanish speakers.
One year after voters approved the landmark ballot measure, Proposition 47 has dramatically altered California's criminal justice landscape.
The California voters approved the three-strikes law as Proposition 184 shortly after Polly Klaas, 12, was kidnapped from her home in Petaluma and murdered by a man with a long criminal history who had been released from prison after serving only half of his most recent sentence.
But as the recession lifted and voters approved the temporary tax hikes in Proposition 30, prospects improved and, under pressure from Brown, UC has kept tuition stable since 2012.
Schools will benefit from a temporary tax increase on the wealthy that voters approved last fall; the tax, approved under Proposition 30, helped the state close its chronic budget deficit.
The government issued the warnings in 1996, after voters had approved Proposition 215, the initiative that protected the right of patients to use marijuana for medical indications.
The proposed budget, considered a first step in a complicated political process, represents one of Napolitano's first major initiatives at UC. Gov. Jerry Brown has been a strong advocate of no tuition hikes at the state's public universities, saying that voters deserve that after approving the tax increases in Proposition 30 last year.
