In the statute it passed to refer Proposition 1A to the ballot - Stats. In 2008, the California State Legislature referred Proposition 1A, the "Safe, Reliable, High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century" to the ballot.
The decision was written by Arthur Scotland, with Harry Hull and George Nicholson concurring. Simply stated, the Legislature cannot dictate the ballot label, title and official summary for a statewide measure unless the Legislature obtains approval of the electorate to do so prior to placement of the measure on the ballot." As we will explain, this ad hoc amendment of the Political Reform Act did not further the purposes of the Act and was not approved by the voters. ".to the extent it specified the ballot label, title and summary to be used, the bill negated the Political Reform Act's requirement that the official summary of the bill be prepared by the Attorney General in addition to the ballot label and title that are prepared by the Attorney General. The court's ruling says that when the California State Legislature took it upon itself to dictate what the ballot language for Proposition 1A should be, it violated the provisions of 1974's Proposition 9: Bowen, the California Third District Court of Appeal sided with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association in its Januruling, which said that in order to "promote impartiality and eliminate conflicts of interest," ballot titles of legislative referrals must be written by the Attorney General of California, not the California State Legislature. In Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v.
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