Felony sentencing. [Ballot]

Jan 2, 2018 - County Criminal Justice Impacts. This measure would result in increased jail and probation costs to counties. This is because some offenders who have current or prior convictions for making criminal threats of violence would serve their sentences in county jails or on county probation, rather than in state prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-046

Proposed statutory initiative that increases excise taxes on the distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products. [Ballot]

Jun 23, 2015 - The department administers various education programs, and allocates funding to various types of local education agencies, including county offices of education, school districts, and charter schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-030

Legislative districts. [Ballot]

Apr 13, 2017 - County Election Responsibilities. California counties are responsible for conducting elections, including: dividing each county into precincts, establishing and providing places for voting, maintaining voter regist ration records, printing ballots and sample ballots, and transmitting election results to the Secretary of State.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-002

Proposition 3 [Ballot]

Nov 6, 2018 - These investors would be repaid with interest using the state ’s General Fund tax revenues. The cost of these bonds would depend on various factors —such as the interest rates in effect at the time they are sold, the timing of bond sales, and the time period over which they are repaid.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=3&year=2018

Proposition 11 [Ballot]

Nov 6, 2018 - The Emergency Ambulance Industry Counties Select Main Ambulance Providers. County agencies divide the county into several zones. The ambulance company that is chosen to serve each zone has the exclusive right to respond to all emergency calls in that area.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=11&year=2018

Changes to how Californians vote. (Amendment No. 1) [Ballot]

Feb 3, 2016 - Ongoing Savings to County Governments. The provisions of the measure related to authorizing county elections officials to conduct mail-only elections likely —on net —would reduce the costs to county elections offices to conduct elections.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-117

Increases excise taxes on the distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products and applies the tobacco products excise tax to electronic cigarettes (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Nov 30, 2015 - The department administers various e ducation programs, and allocates funding to various types of local education agencies, including county offices of education, school districts, and charter schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-081

Child Custody and Juvenile Dependency [Ballot]

Feb 18, 2020 - This measure could result in an ongoing increase in county workload to the extent that jurisdictional hearings that currently are decided by a judge are instead decided by a jury. For example, child welfare departments and/or county attorneys may need to spend more time preparing for jury trials because of the different rules related to how and what informa tion can be presented to a jury.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-033

Retirement benefits for state and local governmental employees in California (Amendment No.1). [Ballot]

Nov 24, 2015 - (In addition to the 1.45  percent tax towards Medicare, high earners pay an additional 0.9  percent of pay on earnings above a certain threshold; however, the employer does not pay this additional tax.)
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-077

Retirement benefits for state and local governmental employees in California (Amendment No. 1). [Ballot]

Nov 24, 2015 - (In addition to the 1.45  percent tax towards Medicare, high earners pay an additional 0.9  percent of pay on earnings above a certain threshold; however, the employer does not pay this additional tax.)
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-076