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2009 Initiative Analysis: Financial Accountability in Redistricting Act

In addition to meeting the requirements of federal law, the commission is required to adopt district boundaries that adhere to a number of requirements to the extent possible, including: Maintaining entire cities, counties, neighborhoods, and "communities of interest " in single districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090861.aspx

2010 Initiative Analysis: The Thomas Lomax Taxpayers Protection Act

Other changes include: Installment agreements that reduce an individual's income below his/her county's "average standard of living " are restricted. All notices to the taxpayer must be delivered by certified or registered mail.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100131.aspx

2012 California Marriage Protection Act

For the reasons noted above, this measure would result in fewer marriages and, therefore, a decrease in the collection of marriage license fees by county clerk's offices. In most cases, this is unlikely to have a significant fiscal effect on county clerk's offices, as counties are authorized to adjust marriage license fees to cover their costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100408.aspx

Proposition 25: Changes Legislative Vote Requirement to Pass a Budget From Two Thirds to a Simple Majority. Retains Two-Thirds Vote Requirement for Taxes. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

This measure ’s constitutional provisions do not specifically address the legislative vote requirement for increasing state tax revenues, but the measure states that its intent is not to change the existing two-thirds vote requirement regarding state taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/25_11_2010.aspx

2011 Initiative Analysis: Article V Convention Initiative

This, in turn, could result in higher or lower federal and state taxes and other revenues. It could also result in more or less federal and state spending on particular public programs. These impacts are impossible to estimate.  
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2011/110261.aspx

2011 Initiative Analysis:Oil Extraction Fee to Rescue Education

Additionally, property owners in California pay local property taxes on the value of both oil extraction equipment (such as drills and pipelines) as well as the value of any recoverable oil in the ground.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2011/110273.aspx

2011 Initiative Analysis: Public Employee Pension Reform Act (Amendment #1-NS)

For some part-time, temporary, and seasonal employees, this measure's prohibition on enrollment in state or local defined benefit pension systems would result in new requirements for public employers to make payments either to the federal Social Security program or an alternative retirement program, as allowed by federal tax laws and regulations.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2011/110298.aspx

2011 Initiative Analysis: The Nuclear Waste Act of 2011

Approximately 16  percent of the state's electricity is generated by nuclear power plants, the majority of which comes from two nuclear power plants currently operating in the state —the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County and San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in San Diego County.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2011/110306.aspx

2011 Initiative Analysis: The Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Act of 2012, Amendment #1-S

The measure could result in savings to the state and local governments by reducing the number of marijuana offenders incarcerated in state prisons and county jails, as well as the number placed under county probation or state parole supervision.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2011/110405.aspx

2011 Initiative Analysis: 2012 Automobile Insurance Discount Act (Amendment #1-S)

Insurance Premium Tax. Insurance companies doing business in California currently pay an insurance premium tax instead of the state corporation tax. The premium tax is based on the amount of insurance premiums earned in the state each year for automobile insurance as well as for other types of insurance coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2011/110461.aspx