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| State | Year | Name | Type | Topics | Description | Status | Yes Votes Total | No Votes Total | Mov |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 1980 | Proposal A | CICA | Homestead tax exemptions, Property taxes, Public education funding, Revenue and spending limits, Property tax exemptions, Public education governance | Revise provisions relating to school funding and establish a property tax break for those 65 and old... | Defeated | 21.22% (746,027) | 78.78% (2,769,497) | 57.56% |
| Michigan | 1980 | Proposal B | LRCA | Alcohol laws | Lower the state's drinking age to 19 | Defeated | 38.41% (1,403,935) | 61.59% (2,250,873) | 23.17% |
| Michigan | 1980 | Proposal C | LRCA | Public education funding, Property tax exemptions, Homestead tax exemptions, Revenue allocation, Budget stabilization funds, Sales taxes | Exempt part of home property taxes, eliminate sales tax on home energy, raise the state sales tax by... | Defeated | 25.72% (894,441) | 74.28% (2,583,253) | 48.56% |
| Michigan | 1980 | Proposal D | CICA | Property tax exemptions, Ballot measure supermajority requirements, Property taxes, Homestead tax exemptions, Revenue and spending limits, State legislative vote requirements | Require 60% voter approval for new taxes and tax increases and revise various other tax provisions | Defeated | 44.16% (1,622,301) | 55.84% (2,051,008) | 11.67% |
| Michigan | 1980 | Proposal E | VR | Income taxes, Prison and jail funding | Provide for development of new correctional facilities and the demolition of an old correctional fac... | Defeated | 36.92% (1,288,999) | 63.08% (2,202,042) | 26.15% |
| Michigan | 1980 | Proposal G | LRCA | State legislative authority | Allow the legislature to make changes relating to the civil immunity of members of the legislature | Defeated | 37.62% (1,287,172) | 62.38% (2,134,546) | 24.76% |
| Michigan | 1980 | Proposal H | LRCA | State executive elections, State executive powers and duties | Establish provisions relating to vacancies in the office of lieutenant governor and relating to the ... | Defeated | 42.27% (1,410,912) | 57.73% (1,927,001) | 15.46% |
| Minnesota | 1980 | Amendment 1 | LRCA | Campaign finance | Require campaign spending limits for executive and legislative offices and public disclosure of camp... | Approved | 78.53% (1,457,454) | 21.47% (398,551) | 57.05% |
| Minnesota | 1980 | Amendment 2 | LRCA | Bond issues, Highways and bridges | Remove restrictions on the interest rate for and the amount of highway bonds | Defeated | 53.94% (964,212) | 46.06% (823,192) | 7.89% |
| Minnesota | 1980 | Amendment 3 | LRCA | State legislative authority | Require state senate approval for notaries public | Defeated | 52.64% (944,883) | 47.36% (850,251) | 5.27% |
| Minnesota | 1980 | Amendment 4 | LRCA | Redistricting policy | Establish a bipartisan reapportionment commission | Defeated | 57.86% (1,036,581) | 42.14% (754,935) | 15.72% |
| Minnesota | 1980 | Amendment 5 | LRCA | Initiative and referendum process | Establish the initiative and referendum process in the state | Defeated | 53.19% (970,407) | 46.81% (854,164) | 6.37% |
| Missouri | 1980 | Amendment 3 | LRCA | Gambling policy | Authorize organizations to conduct bingo games, subject to certain restrictions | Approved | 71.50% (1,338,272) | 28.50% (533,458) | 43.00% |
| Missouri | 1980 | Amendment 4 | LRCA | Public land policy, Revenue allocation, Parks, land, and natural area conservation | Allocate funds from the one-eighth cent sales tax for payments of commission lands and forest cropla... | Approved | 65.65% (1,152,704) | 34.35% (603,181) | 31.30% |
| Missouri | 1980 | Amendment 5 | CICA | Local government finance and taxes, Tax and revenue administration, Revenue and spending limits, Property taxes | Limit state taxes to annual income-based adjustments or emergencies, require voter approval for loca... | Approved | 55.41% (1,002,935) | 44.59% (807,187) | 10.81% |
| Missouri | 1980 | Proposition 11 | CISS | Nuclear energy | Prohibit the operation of nuclear power plants unless federally approved sites for permanent radioac... | Defeated | 39.13% (772,597) | 60.87% (1,201,821) | 21.74% |
| Montana | 1980 | C-9 | LRCA | State judiciary oversight | Approved | 58.33% (181,140) | 41.67% (129,394) | 16.66% | |
| Montana | 1980 | I-84 | CISS | Environment, Nuclear energy | Approved | 50.06% (172,909) | 49.94% (172,493) | 0.12% | |
| Montana | 1980 | I-85 | CISS | Open meetings and public information, Ethics rules and commissions | Approved | 77.28% (259,698) | 22.72% (76,358) | 54.56% | |
| Montana | 1980 | I-86 | CISS | Taxes | Approved | 69.47% (233,497) | 30.53% (102,635) | 38.93% | |
| Montana | 1980 | I-87 | CISS | Business regulations, Pollution, waste, and recycling policy | Defeated | 28.81% (100,761) | 71.19% (248,928) | 42.37% | |
| Nebraska | 1980 | Amendment 1 | LRCA | State judiciary structure | Change the number and formation of the Supreme Court judicial districts | Defeated | 49.50% (265,791) | 50.50% (271,110) | 0.99% |
| Nebraska | 1980 | Amendment 2 | LRCA | State judiciary oversight, State judicial selection, State judiciary structure | Change the membership of the Commission on Judicial Qualifications and provide for additional discip... | Approved | 69.95% (358,264) | 30.05% (153,925) | 39.90% |
| Nebraska | 1980 | Amendment 3 | LRCA | Property tax exemptions, Energy conservation and efficiency | Authorize the legislature to provide tax exemptions for energy conservation improvements | Approved | 58.72% (314,354) | 41.28% (221,024) | 17.43% |
| Nebraska | 1980 | Amendment 4 | LRCA | Property taxes, Public education funding | Enact a system of public education financing that did not impose unfair or excessive property tax bu... | Defeated | 44.13% (245,845) | 55.87% (311,203) | 11.73% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 1 | LRCA | Bail policy, Criminal sentencing | Expand the list of crimes for which bail may be denied to include murders punishable by life impriso... | Approved | 78.14% (177,592) | 21.86% (49,690) | 56.27% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 2 | LRCA | Salaries of government officials, State judicial selection | Allow the legislature to raise judges' salaries during their terms and require one-third of district... | Defeated | 28.42% (64,496) | 71.58% (162,421) | 43.15% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 3 | LRCA | Salaries of government officials | Allow the legislature to set the payment amount for legislators' postage, express charges, newspaper... | Defeated | 37.93% (86,624) | 62.07% (141,758) | 24.14% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 4 | LRCA | Public economic investment policy, Higher education funding, Public education funding, State legislative authority | Allow the legislature to determine policies for investing state educational funds beyond bonds and a... | Approved | 51.81% (116,445) | 48.19% (108,288) | 3.63% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 5 | LRCA | Local government officials and elections | Allow county auditors and public administrators to be appointed rather than elected. | Defeated | 33.30% (75,265) | 66.70% (150,730) | 33.39% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 6 | CICA | Property taxes, State legislative vote requirements, Revenue and spending limits | Limit property taxes to 1% of value, cap annual increases at 2%, and require two-thirds approval for... | Defeated | 42.46% (103,334) | 57.54% (140,018) | 15.07% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 7 | LRCA | State judicial authority, State judiciary structure | Create an intermediate Court of Appeals to review District Court decisions, with some cases subject ... | Defeated | 47.16% (106,131) | 52.84% (118,933) | 5.69% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 8 | CICA | Property tax exemptions | Exempt household goods and furniture used by a single household and owned by a member of that househ... | Approved | 77.29% (178,947) | 22.71% (52,593) | 54.57% |
| Nevada | 1980 | Question 9 | CICA | Food and beverage taxes, Sales taxes | Exempt food for human consumption from state taxation. | Approved | 70.31% (163,384) | 29.69% (68,985) | 40.62% |
| New Hampshire | 1980 | Gender Neutral Language in Bill of Rights | CCRCA | Constitutional wording changes | This measure proposed replacing terms "men", "man", and "man's" with "people", "person" and "persons... | Defeated | 61.89% (201,251) | 38.11% (123,901) | 23.79% |
| New Hampshire | 1980 | Present Proposed Amendments to Voters | CCRCA | Constitutional wording changes | This measure stated that all proposed constitutional amendments should be presented to voters at the... | Approved | 86.48% (261,600) | 13.52% (40,899) | 72.96% |
| New Hampshire | 1980 | Remove Obsolete Provisions | CCRCA | Constitutional wording changes | This measure proposed removing or rewriting three obsolete constitutional provisions. | Approved | 67.54% (205,432) | 32.46% (98,732) | 35.08% |
| New Hampshire | 1980 | Repeal Article 99 | CCRCA | Constitutional wording changes | This measure proposed the repeal of Article 99 and the modificiation of Article 100 to add the provi... | Approved | 70.14% (189,321) | 29.86% (80,588) | 40.29% |
| New Hampshire | 1980 | Votes Requied to Propose and Amendment | CCRCA | Constitutional wording changes | This measure proposed that three-fifths of the constitutional convention votes would be required to ... | Approved | 82.85% (249,284) | 17.15% (51,603) | 65.70% |
| New Jersey | 1980 | Public Question No. 1 | BI | Bond issues | The Natural Resources Bond Act of 1980 authorized $145 million in bonds for resource recovery, sewag... | Approved | 61.80% (1,412,678) | 38.20% (873,381) | 23.59% |
| New Jersey | 1980 | Public Question No. 2 | BI | Bond issues | The Public Purpose Buildings Construction Bond Act of 1980 authorized $159 million in bonds for ment... | Approved | 55.40% (1,245,981) | 44.60% (1,002,915) | 10.81% |
| New Jersey | 1980 | Public Question No. 3 | BI | Bond issues | The amendment allowed eligible senior citizens and disabled people to claim a real property tax dedu... | Approved | 74.94% (1,758,598) | 25.06% (588,183) | 49.87% |
| New Jersey | 1980 | Public Question No. 4 | LRCA | Taxes | The amendment to Article VIII, Section 1, paragraph 4 of the New Jersey Constitution increased the m... | Approved | 76.31% (1,790,199) | 23.69% (555,788) | 52.62% |
| New Jersey | 1980 | Public Question No. 5 | BI | Bond issues | The Energy Conservation Bond Issue authorized $50 million in bonds, including $3 million for energy ... | Approved | 53.35% (1,172,160) | 46.65% (1,024,937) | 6.70% |
| New Jersey | 1980 | Public Question No. 6 | LRSS | Gambling policy | The measure would have changed the state gambling laws to allow horse racing on Sundays and extend S... | Defeated | 43.66% (996,006) | 56.34% (1,285,074) | 12.67% |
| New Jersey | 1980 | Public Question No. 7 | LRCA | Gambling policy | The proposed amendment to Article IV, Section VII, paragraph 2 of the New Jersey Constitution would ... | Defeated | 43.66% (996,006) | 56.34% (1,285,074) | 12.67% |
| New Mexico | 1980 | Constitutional Amendment No. 2 | LRCA | Constitutional wording changes, Public education governance | The referendum allowed for large school districts to have seven elected school board members. | Approved | 60.65% (147,035) | 39.35% (95,385) | 21.31% |
| New Mexico | 1980 | Constitutional Amendment No. 3 | LRCA | Bail policy, Constitutional wording changes | The referendum allowed for the limiting of bail in certain circumstances. | Approved | 64.22% (157,992) | 35.78% (88,033) | 28.44% |
| New Mexico | 1980 | Constitutional Amendment No. 4 | LRCA | Constitutional wording changes, State executive official measures | The referendum would have allowed for state executive officers to serve two consecutive four-year te... | Defeated | 43.76% (107,676) | 56.24% (138,393) | 12.48% |
| New Mexico | 1980 | Constitutional Amendment No. 5 | LRCA | Jury rules, Criminal trials, Constitutional wording changes | The referendum changed the number of signatures needed to require a convention of a grand jury. | Approved | 53.63% (124,996) | 46.37% (108,056) | 7.27% |