Proposal to Reform California’s Prop. 47 Gets Enough Signatures to Appear on Ballot

Supporters collected more than 900,000 signatures to place the tough-on-crime measure on the November ballot.

California for Safer Communities Coalition holds a press conference in San Francisco on April 18, 2024. Courtesy of Sydney Kovach

Californians could get a chance to amend Proposition 47—a law passed by voters in 2015 that lessened some drug and theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors—with more than 900,000 signatures collected to place the issue on the November ballot.

Voters will decide if penalties should be increased for some of those crimes.