Government structure
20 tracked measures relating to government structure, in 6 states.
Topic labels are applied by this site to group related measures. They are a navigation aid, not a legal classification, and they are not assigned by any state.
Arizona
4 measures
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On the ballot
Proposition 142 would amend the Arizona Constitution to expand the state's existing 2010 ban on race- or ethnicity-based preferential treatment in public employment, education, and…
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Did not qualify
Proposition 145 would have amended the Arizona Constitution to bar the state from confiscating Empowerment Scholarship Account funds belonging to the children of military families, and…
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On the ballot
Proposition 319 would enact a state statute barring an Arizona city, town, or state agency from beginning a new photo-radar or red-light camera enforcement program unless it has a signed…
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On the ballot
Proposition 320 would enact a state statute requiring school districts with at least 7,500 students, and every district in a county with at least 500,000 residents — currently Maricopa…
California
5 measures
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On the ballot
Proposition 2 would change the constitutional rules for California's Budget Stabilization Account, the reserve voters created in 2014. It would double the cap on that reserve from 10…
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On the ballot
Proposition 4 would repeal the Political Reform Act's ban on using public money for political candidates' campaigns. State and local governments could then set up public campaign financing…
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On the ballot
Proposition 41 would bar any new state tax whose revenues are excluded from the state appropriations limit voters approved in 1979. For statewide special taxes — taxes dedicated to a…
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On the ballot
Proposition 43 would raise the share of votes needed to approve local special taxes that voters themselves place on the ballot by signature gathering, from a simple majority to two-thirds…
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On the ballot
Proposition 5 would remove the replacement question from recall elections for state officers. Voters currently answer two questions at once: whether to remove the officer, and who should…
Florida
2 measures
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On the ballot
Amendment 1 would change the constitutional rules for Florida's budget stabilization fund, the reserve the state draws on for emergencies and revenue shortfalls. It would raise the fund's…
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On the ballot
Amendment 3 would raise Florida's homestead exemption for all property taxes other than school district levies to the first $150,000 of assessed value in 2027 and the first $250,000 in…
Massachusetts
4 measures
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Did not qualify
This initiative would have written into state law the limits on stipends Massachusetts legislators receive on top of their base salary, which is about $82,000. The Senate president and…
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On the ballot
Question 1 would apply the Massachusetts public records law to records held by the state Legislature and the governor's office, which are exempt from that law today. Papers, correspondence…
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On the ballot
Question 3 would end party primaries for state and county offices in Massachusetts and replace them with a single primary in which every candidate appears on one ballot regardless of party…
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On the ballot
Question 5 would change how Massachusetts calculates the annual cap on state tax collections set by Chapter 62F, the 1986 voter-approved law that requires collections above the cap to be…
Michigan
2 measures
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On the ballot
Article XII of the Michigan Constitution automatically puts this question on the ballot every 16 years, regardless of whether any lawmaker or campaign asks for it. It asks voters whether to…
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On the ballot
This initiated statute would bar regulated electric and gas utilities, government contractors receiving more than $250,000 a year from the state, and people or organizations with…
Nevada
3 measures
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Did not qualify
This proposed constitutional amendment would have changed the Nevada Constitution's unfunded-mandate provision, which a 2022 Nevada Supreme Court ruling reads as requiring sponsors of any…
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Withdrawn
This proposed constitutional amendment would have moved responsibility for drawing Nevada's legislative and congressional districts from the Legislature to a seven-member independent…
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Did not qualify
This proposed constitutional amendment would have added to Nevada's Voters' Bill of Rights a right for every registered voter to take part in any publicly funded election, regardless of…
About government structure ballot measures
Measures tagged here change how a state government is put together: the offices that exist and who fills them, terms and term limits, how often and how long the legislature meets, the governor's veto, the courts' composition, and the procedures for amending the constitution or qualifying an initiative.
This is the category with the longest shadow. A change to signature thresholds, single-subject rules, or supermajority requirements does not decide any policy question directly — it changes the odds for every future ballot measure, including ones nobody has drafted yet. Term limits and appointment rules work the same way, shifting who will be making decisions rather than what the decision is.
Because they alter the framework itself, nearly all of these are constitutional amendments. Worth checking: the effective date and whether it applies to officials already serving; whether the measure is self-executing or waits on implementing legislation; and whether it changes a threshold, a procedure, or the composition of a body — three quite different levers that can look alike in a ballot summary.
Wording, numbering, and certification status are set by each state and can change up to the printing of the ballot. Every summary above links to the records it was built from; where those records disagree with this page, the records govern. Confirm the final ballot text with your state or county election authority before you rely on it.