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Initiative Measure No. IL27-076 concerns state and local taxes. This measure would prohibit unspecified local taxes on personal income and repeal state legislation imposing a tax on annual income over $1,000,000 and reducing certain other taxes, if the legislation is found constitutional.

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This measure would prohibit state, county, and city taxes on an individual’s personal income; set forth state taxes that are prohibited; define income as “property and means and includes everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership”; and repeal Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6346 if a court upholds the law. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6346 imposes a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1,000,000 and adopts or expands certain other tax credits, deductions, and exemptions.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-578 concerns state and local taxes. This measure would prohibit unspecified local taxes on personal income; define income as property; and repeal legislation imposing a tax on annual income over $1,000,000 and adopting certain tax credits, deductions, and exemptions.

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This measure would prohibit imposition or collection of state, county, and city taxes on an individual’s personal income; state that prohibited state taxes are set forth in the measure; define income as “property and means and includes everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership”; and repeal Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6346, which imposes a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1,000,000 and adopts or expands certain other tax credits, deductions, and exemptions.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-079 concerns state taxes. This measure would repeal a 9.9% tax on annual individual income above $1,000,000 and repeal the expansion of certain tax exemptions or credits for certain household goods and services, working families, and businesses. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

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This measure would repeal Laws of 2026, Section 238, which imposes a 9.9% tax on annual individual income above $1,000,000, and also makes other tax-related changes, including exempting certain household goods and services from state sales and use tax, expanding eligibility for the Working Families Tax Credit, and establishing a small business tax credit. Repeal of this law would eliminate the individual income tax and the tax credits, deductions, and exemptions specified in the law.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-199 concerns housing and homelessness. This measure would repeal the Affordable Housing Program, Washington Housing Policy Act, and Homeless Housing and Assistance Act—laws creating and implementing programs to develop and preserve affordable housing and house homeless persons.

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This measure would repeal: (1) the Affordable Housing Program, RCW 43.185A, aimed at developing and preserving affordable housing and coordinating resources to meet affordable housing needs of low-income households; (2) the Washington Housing Policy Act, RCW 43.185B, which establishes an advisory board to make affordable housing recommendations and reports; and (3) the Homeless Housing and Assistance Act, RCW 43.185C, aimed at developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan for housing homeless persons, including homeless youth.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-221 concerns campaign finance disclosure and campaign contribution limitations. This measure would repeal Washington’s laws regulating electoral campaign finances, such as requirements to disclose contributions and expenditures by election campaigns, political committees, and lobbyists, and limits on contributions to campaigns.

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This measure would repeal Washington’s laws regulating electoral campaign finances and other campaign-related conduct, set forth at Chapter 29B RCW. Those laws establish the Public Disclosure Commission and its duties; require reporting of contributions and expenditures by political campaigns, political committees, and lobbyists; registration of political committees; and various other campaign-finance-related regulations and reports. Those laws also prohibit corporate contributions directly to political campaigns and limit contributions to candidates.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-386 concerns repeal of the Growth Management Act, RCW 36.70A. This measure would repeal the Growth Management Act, which requires certain cities and counties to establish comprehensive plans and development regulations to increase housing and guide future growth consistent with 15 specified goals.

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This measure would repeal the Growth Management Act, which, among other things, requires certain cities and counties to establish comprehensive plans and development regulations to increase housing and guide future growth consistent with 15 specified goals, including development in urban areas, reducing sprawl, efficient transportation, affordable housing, economic development, property rights, timely permit processing, environmental protection, open space and recreational opportunities, historic preservation, sufficient facilities and services, climate change mitigation, shoreline management, and citizen involvement.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-407 concerns removing legal protections for labor unions and workers. This measure would repeal laws legalizing labor unions, protecting workers from certain injunctions and prosecutions, protecting union communication confidentiality, and barring public employers from requiring waiver of statutory rights to settle worker grievances.

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This measure would repeal a law that declares it lawful for workers to organize themselves into labor unions. It would also repeal provisions that prohibit injunctions stemming from labor disputes unless necessary to prevent irreparable damage and prohibit criminal prosecutions for labor organizing activity. It would also repeal privileges for union communications, and a law that prohibits public employers from requiring workers to forgo legal claims in exchange for settling their grievances.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-460 concerns the Department of Ecology. This measure would repeal laws creating the Department of Ecology and defining its powers and duties, which include regulating natural resources, pollution control, rulemaking, administering grants, and implementing federal programs.

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This measure would repeal laws creating the Department of Ecology and all its administrative divisions and officers. It would also repeal laws establishing the Department’s powers and duties, which include air and water pollution control, managing water resources, regulating solid waste management, engaging in rulemaking, administering grants, implementing federal programs, consulting with other state and federal agencies, preparing studies and surveys, and issuing reports.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-473 concerns regional transit authorities. This measure would repeal laws that permit counties to establish a regional transit authority, govern processes for such authorities, and allow them to implement and develop revenue for high-capacity transportation within authority boundaries.

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This measure would repeal chapter 81.112 RCW, which permits two or more contiguous counties to establish a regional transit authority if they each have populations of four hundred thousand people or more by submitting a ballot proposition to voters. Regional transit authorities implement high-capacity transportation systems and develop revenue to support those transportation systems. Regional transit authorities exercise all rights with respect to high-capacity transportation system facilities in the system plan required by RCW 81.104.100.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-521 concerns carbon allowance trading. This measure would repeal sections of the Washington Climate Commitment Act as amended, including sections establishing a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-invest carbon allowance trading system for certain entities.

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This measure would repeal sections of the Washington Climate Commitment Act as amended, which establish a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It would repeal the creation and modification of a cap-and-invest carbon allowance trading system that sets declining emission limits for covered entities. The measure would also repeal provisions of the law that direct revenue from the program to fund climate and clean energy projects, and set out reporting requirements and enforcement mechanisms.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-598 concerns the repeal of certain voting laws. This measure would repeal the requirement that voters receive mail ballots. It would also repeal laws relating to voting locations, ballot distribution and processing, absentee voting, election observers, and disclosure of voter records.

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This measure would repeal the requirement that voters receive mail ballots. It would also repeal laws relating to voting locations, ballot distribution and processing, absentee voting, election observers, and disclosure of voter records. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ] BALLOT MEASURE SUMMARY Initiative Measure No. IL27-598 would repeal the requirement that Washington voters receive mail ballots for elections. It would also repeal laws requiring the availability of absentee voting and early voting; laws requiring election observers and public disclosure of certain voting records; and laws requiring nonpartisan student engagement hubs at state universities and colleges. The measure would also repeal certain laws related to voting locations and ballot distribution, returns, and processing.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-680 concerns The Evergreen State College. This measure would repeal state laws establishing The Evergreen State College and its Board of Trustees, including laws authorizing the Board to confer degrees and entitling the college to federal benefits and donations.

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This measure would repeal Chapter 28B.40 RCW in its entirety, including laws establishing The Evergreen State College and its Board of Trustees and providing that The Evergreen State College shall be Washington’s only state college. The measure would also repeal laws authorizing the college to establish model schools; laws entitling the college to federal benefits and donations; and laws conferring powers and duties on the Board of Trustees, including the power to grant degrees.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-979 concerns repealing the Washington Clean Energy Transformation Act. This measure would repeal the Washington Clean Energy Transformation Act, including repealing mandatory deadlines for electric utilities to eliminate coal-fired generation and use only renewable or nonemitting energy for power served to consumers.

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This measure would repeal the Washington Clean Energy Transformation Act, which is codified at RCW 19.405. That Act currently sets mandatory standards for electric utilities regarding power served to Washington consumers. Those standards include eliminating coal-fired generation, being greenhouse gas neutral by 2030, and using only nonemitting electric generation or electricity from renewable resources by 2045. The Act also requires electric utilities to create and submit plans to reach those goals.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-187 concerns state and local taxes. This measure would eliminate a tax on annual income over $1,000,000 and a tax on certain capital gains by reducing their rates to 0%; define “personal income”; and prohibit taxes on personal income.

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This measure would eliminate a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1,000,000 and a 7% tax on certain capital gains by reducing their tax rates to 0%. It would define “personal income” as an individual’s property and say that the term “means and includes everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership;” and it would prohibit state and local governments from imposing or collecting tax on an individual’s or household’s personal income.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-380 concerns state and local taxes. This measure would repeal a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1,000,000; repeal certain tax exemptions, deductions, and credits; define “personal income” as property; and prohibit state and local taxes on personal income.

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This measure would repeal legislation enacted through Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6346, which imposed a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1,000,000 and made other tax-related changes, including exempting certain household goods and services from state sales tax, expanding the Working Families Tax Credit, and establishing a small business tax credit. It would define “personal income” as property and prohibit state and local governments from imposing or collecting taxes on personal income.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-688 concerns state and local taxes. This measure would eliminate a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1,000,000 by reducing the tax rate to 0%; define “personal income” as property; and prohibit taxes on individual or household personal income.

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This measure would eliminate a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1,000,000 by reducing the tax rate to 0%; repeal an exception to the pre-existing prohibition on taxing income; define “personal income” as an individual’s property and say that the term “means and includes everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership”; and prohibit state and local governments from imposing or collecting tax on an individual’s or household’s personal income.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-348 concerns the repeal of certain election laws. This measure would repeal numerous election laws, including certain provisions about verifying voter identity and address, processing ballots, ballot drop boxes and voting centers, public disclosure, and military, overseas, and disabled voters.

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Initiative Measure No. IL27-348 would repeal numerous election laws, including provisions related to updating voters’ addresses and verifying voters’ signatures on ballot envelopes. It would also repeal laws addressing how ballots are distributed and processed and laws requiring ballot drop boxes, voting centers, and student engagement locations. This measure would repeal certain laws about voting by service members, voters outside the United States, and voters with disabilities. It would also repeal certain public disclosure laws.

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