{"id":449189,"date":"2026-08-31T20:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449189\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:46:07","slug":"fresno-countys-transportation-tax-measure-will-appear-on-november-ballot-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449189\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County&#8217;s transportation tax measure will appear on November ballot, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A judge has ruled that Fresno County&#8217;s transportation tax measure will appear on the November 3 ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This ruling comes after weeks of legal disputes involving the state and Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a court document, the judge said that &#8220;the court declares AB 1923 is valid and enforceable,&#8221; adding that &#8220;any and all requests for temporary restraining orders and\/or preliminary injunctions are denied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The judge agreed to fast-track proceedings since Fresno County Clerk and Registrar of Voters James Kus said all ballots must be formatted by September 3 and sent to printing vendors by September 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Court proceedings showed that 2,000 military and overseas voters would have been affected if the matter was not resolved before those deadlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Assembly Bill 1923 has been the center of the dispute. It is the legislation that would replace Measure C, the half-cent transportation sales tax that funds road, infrastructure and transportation projects throughout Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Following this ruling, the parties have until September 3 to issue an appeal.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A judge has ruled that Fresno County&#8217;s transportation tax measure will appear on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[177768,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-449189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-177768","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}