North Carolina Higher Education Improvement Bonds Referendum (2000)

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North Carolina Higher Education Improvement Bonds Referendum

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Election date

November 7, 2000

Topic
Bond issues and Education
Status

ApprovedApproved

Type
Legislatively referred constitutional amendment
Origin

State legislature



North Carolina Higher Education Improvement Bonds Referendum was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in North Carolina on November 7, 2000. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported issuing $3.1 billion in bonds to fund improvements to the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Community College System.

A "no" vote opposed issuing $3.1 billion in bonds to fund improvements to the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Community College System.


Election results

North Carolina Higher Education Improvement Bonds Referendum

Result Votes Percentage

Approved Yes

1,898,592 73.67%
No 678,731 26.33%
Results are officially certified.
Source


Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Higher Education Improvement Bonds Referendum was as follows:

The issuance of State of North Carolina Higher Education Improvement Bonds, constituting general obligation bonds of the State secured by a pledge of the faith and credit and taxing power of the State for the purpose of providing funds, with any other available funds, to pay all or part of the cost of (i) renovating laboratories, classrooms, academic buildings, and worker training facilities and providing other capital improvements at the 59 institutions of the North Carolina Community College System in order to fulfill the mission of educating students and providing worker training essential to the North Carolina economy, and to address expected large increases in student enrollment, and (ii) renovating and replacing classrooms, laboratories, and academic buildings and providing other capital improvements at the 16 campuses of the constituent institutions, the affiliated institutions, and the Center for Public Television (UNC-TV) of the University of North Carolina System in order to meet large expected student enrollment increases, serve North Carolina by providing the education critical to the State's economy, and continue to provide UNC-TV public television to the State's viewers; in the amount of three billion one hundred million dollars ($3,100,000,000)


[ ] FOR

[ ] AGAINST

Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.


Path to the ballot

The North Carolina State Legislature can refer statewide ballot measures, in the form of constitutional amendments and bond issues, to the ballot for statewide elections.

North Carolina requires a 60% vote in each legislative chamber during a single legislative session to refer a constitutional amendment to the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 72 votes in the North Carolina House of Representatives and 30 votes in the North Carolina Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

Statutes, including bond issues, require a simple majority vote in each legislative chamber during one legislative session and the governor's signature to appear on the ballot.

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