My understanding is that petitions have been submitted but that the Amendment Measure has yet to be approved for the ballot. Does anybody know anything about when that approval is expected to be issued?
Last I heard, we should know whether or not it's on the November ballot by June (if not sooner). Same status with the Parental Notification Initiative on abortion. These things sure do take a long time.
it may not even get on the ballot, a friend who’s a lawyer in CA told me that the secretary of state could use the courts ruling to disqualify it from the ballot as being unconstitutional because of the wording of the ruling. It said something along the lines of it being a fundamental right that couldn’t be taken away by the voters by initiative. Even if it passes it’ll end up in court on that basis.