The passage of Reiner's tobacco tax bill and later the stem cell funding bill have put a lot of bad ideas into people's heads, and this is one of them. There's a sudden frenzy to get voters to pass special measures to create slush funds that the People for a Perfect World can tap for every fantasy they've been unable to get thru the normal budgetary process.
Oops. Correction: those measures weren't bills, but rather voter initiatives.