"Everybody's going to face this kind of a situation at some point in their lives," says Karen Williams, whose 22-year-old son died in a 2005 motorcycle accident.

Measure 73 would require anyone convicted of a "major felony sex crime" who had previously been convicted of a sex crime to be sentenced to 25 years in prison. That would be a change from the current minimum sentence of 5 years, 10 months.

State legislators are looking into how to get the public behind their hopes for a pay raise - such as closing loopholes in how lawmakers use campaign money for office and personal use.