Home building and downpayment assistance. [Ballot]

Oct 6, 2025 - The measure sets a maximum purchase price for a home financed with a middle-class homeownership loan, which in 2025 is roughly equivalent to between $1  million to $1.5  million depending on the county.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-013

Artificial intelligence and child safety. [Ballot]

Jan 27, 2026 - These include informing users that they are interacting with an AI system, taking steps to reduce the risk of harmful or sexually explicit content, and maintaining protocols to respond when a user expresses sel f-harm or suicidal ideation.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-036

New tax on the wealth of billionaires. [Ballot]

Dec 11, 2025 - A person ’s net worth is the value of all the things they own, like stocks, businesses, or other investments, minus their debts. By this measure, California is home to a few hundred people with wealth over $1  billion, often called billionaires.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-024

Stem cell research. [Ballot]

Dec 2, 2019 - (For taxable bonds, the interest that investors earn is not exempt from federal taxes.) CIRM Has Spent Nearly All Available Funds. As Figure 1 shows, bonds issued under Proposition  71 have comprised virtually all of CIRM ’s funding, with a relatively small amount of funding coming from investment income, private donations, and other sources.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-022

Oversight of certain frontier artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - These costs would include compensation for commissioners and staff, hiring and retaining techni cal experts with specialized AI expertise, rulemaking activities, investigations, audits, and enforcement actions.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-034

International protocol official in state government. [Ballot]

Sep 16, 2015 - State entities under the Governor ’s authority are responsible for promoting California agriculture, environmental policies, trade and investment activities, maintaining record of any agreements made between the st ate and foreign governments, and other interests.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-046

Proposition 14 [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2020 - The state sold the bonds to investors, and the money generated from these sales funded CIRM grants and operations. After selling bonds, the state has been repaying investors with interest over many years.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=14&year=2020

The California Nuclear Waste Act [Ballot]

Feb 26, 2015 - State Could Be Held Liable to Compensate Utilities for Investment Losses. Under current state law, IOUs are generally allowed to recover costs associated with their capital investments through the ratemaking process.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-001

A proposed statutory initiative prohibiting the generation of nuclear power in California. [Ballot]

Oct 14, 2015 - State Could Be Held Liable to Compensate Utilities for Investment Losses. Under current state law, IOUs are generally allowed to recover costs associated with their capital investments through the ratemaking process.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-055

Artificial intelligence (AI) and child safety. [Ballot]

Dec 12, 2025 - A companion chatbot is defined as an AI system with a natural language interface that provides adaptive, human-like social interactions and can maintain a relationship over multiple interactions. The law excludes certain chatbots, such as those used solely for customer service, business operations, video game interactions limited to game-related
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-025