The California secretary of state reported on Dec. 13 that two California ballot initiatives campaigns had collected at least 25% of the required number of signatures needed to qualify for the ballot in 2024.
Protect Patients Now, sponsored by the California Apartment Association, is gathering signatures for an initiated state statute to require healthcare providers to spend 98% of revenues from federal discount prescription drug programs on direct patient care. This requirement would apply to healthcare providers that spent over $100 million in any 10-year period on anything other than direct patient care and operated multifamily housing with over 500 high-severity health and safety violations.
The campaign needs to collect 546,651 signatures by its circulation deadline of May 1, 2024.
