2004 Election Results
Funding for Children's Hospital Projects
Passed: Authorizes $750 million in general obligation bonds for grants to children’s hospitals for construction, expansion, remodeling, and renovation.
| Yes: | 5,319,239 | 58.1% |
| No: | 3,842,834 | 41.9% |
Funding for Expansion of Mental Health Services
Passed: Increases taxes by 1 percent on income over $1 million to fund expansion of mental health services and programs.
| Yes: | 4,941,871 | 53.4% |
| No: | 4,322,947 | 46.6% |
Funding for Uncompensated Emergency Services
Failed: Increases an existing surcharge on calls made within California to 3 percent primarily to reimburse hospitals and doctors for uncompensated emergency services to the uninsured.
| Yes: | 2,578,714 | 28.0% |
| No: | 6,598,404 | 72.0% |
Funding and Regulating Stem Cell Research
Passed: Creates the “California Institute for Regenerative Medicine” to regulate stem cell research and provide funding, through grants and loans, for research and research facilities
| Yes: | 5,616,268 | 59.1% |
| No: | 3,894,561 | 40.9% |
Referendum on the Health Insurance Act of 2003 (SB 2)
Failed: Challenges the law signed October 5, 2003, which requires large and mid-sized companies to provide health insurance for employees or pay a fee to the state to do so.
| Yes: | 4,563,004 | 49.1% |
| No: | 4,724,470 | 50.9% |
