AIDS Reporting, Car Insurance Initiatives Certified for Ballot
An initiative to strengthen AIDS reporting requirements and another to lower automobile insurance rates were certified Monday by Secretary of State March Fong Eu as the eighth and ninth initiatives qualified for the November ballot.
The AIDS reporting initiative, sponsored by conservative Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) would require doctors, blood banks and others to report to local health officers the names of individuals who they believed had been exposed to AIDS or who had tested positive for it.
Proposition 69, defeated on the June 7 ballot, also would have expanded reporting requirements for those carrying the AIDS virus.
Eu’s certification of the “Insurance Rates and Regulations” initiative makes it the third automobile insurance-related initiative to qualify for the Nov. 8 ballot. The measure is sponsored by a group called Access to Justice and is backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Eu said.
The initiative would lower insurance rates at least 20% retroactive to Nov. 8, 1987, levels and freeze them for two years. Raising the rates would require a public hearing and approval by the insurance commissioner, who would be an elected official.
The initiatives needed 372,000 signatures.
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