Pro-Business Reforms from CalChamber-Led Campaigns

• Protecting the voter-approved citizens redistricting commission (2012).
• Clearly defining fees and taxes at the state and local levels so that governments can’t
  pass real taxes with a simple majority vote (2010).
• Allowing all voters to choose any candidate regardless of the candidate’s or voter’s
  political party preference (2010).
• Changing the process for redrawing political district boundaries to make politicians
  more accountable to voters (2008).
• Ensuring further protection for transportation funding and strict accountability
  provisions in bond measures to fund infrastructure improvements for roads, education
  facilities, housing, levee protection and disaster preparedness (2008).
• Reforming the state’s unfair competition law to stop unscrupulous lawsuits (2004).
• Requiring gasoline sales tax be used solely for transportation (2002).
• Providing tax relief and tort reform (early 1980s).

In 2014, CalChamber President and CEO Allan Zaremberg signed the ballot arguments
in support of a bipartisan measure approved by voters to put money in a constitutionally
protected reserve in good times so that the rainy day reserve can be used to protect
schools, public safety and other vital services in economic downturns