* This act provides for a bond issue of nine hundred ninety-five million dollars ($995,000,000) to provide funds to ensure safe drinking water, increase water supplies, clean up pollution in rivers, streams, lakes, bays, and coastal areas, protect life and property from flooding, and protect fish and wildlife and makes changes in the Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Law of 1986 and the Clean Water and Water Reclamation Bond Law of 1988 to further these goals.
* Appropriates money from state General Fund to pay off bonds.
Source for Popular Vote data: California Secretary of State. Statement of Vote - Election 1996, California Secretary of State (http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/sov/1996_general/sov_nov96.pdf) (accessed 17 May 2007)