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2026 California Props 38 and 41 + the Whole Ballot: What They Actually Do

Props 38 and 41 on your 2026 California ballot decide how the state borrows for medical research and how it checks the new taxes it passes, and then we take all 14 state measures together by what they’d do to your taxes, your housing, your vote, and your health care and schools. Find out whether each one does what it says on the ballot, what it would do to you, your business, and your community, and what you can do about it.

Why would an $8.4 billion bond send half its money to one research institute, when the one most likely to get it had three employees in September? How could a measure…

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