Yes. That was one of the other provisions of Proposition 13, the measure that limited property taxes that passed in 1978. The thing is, the Democrats are trying to finagle their way around this provision by calling things 'fees' instead of taxes. An example of this is the vehicle license fee. The Dems in the legislature want to triple this, and the Republicans are fighting them. On the one hand, the Dems say they're just 'clarifying' the existing law. If so, then the bill is subject to referendum (voters can gather signatures and put any law passed by the legislature on the ballot), and while it's pending the vote the law is suspended. Then if the law is defeated, they won't get their fee increase. When they were threatened with this, the Dems said that it's a tax increase, making it not subject to a referendum. That means it would have to have the aforementioned supermajority. The Dems are trying to argue now that it's a law in terms of supermajority (none needed) and a tax increase in terms of referendum (none allowed). The Republicans are saying that the Dems have to pick one or the other, and that a court will be asked to decide if the Dems won't. In either case, the Republicans are saying that tripling the vehicle license fees is never going to be allowed to happen, so the Dems may as well forget about it and start cutting the state budget instead of looking for more ways to get money out of us.