Local taxes. [Ballot]

Aug 14, 2025 - Long-standing state law permits California ’s 58 counties to impose and collect a tax on the transfer of ownership in real estate. This is known as a documentary transfer tax. The tax is limited to 55 cents per $500 in property sale (or 0.11  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-006

Local taxes. [Ballot]

Jul 1, 2025 - Long-standing state law permits California ’s 58 counties to impose and collect a tax on the transfer of ownership in real estate. This is known as a documentary transfer tax. The tax is limited to 55 cents per $500 in property sale (or 0.11 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-005

Local taxes. [Ballot]

Jul 1, 2025 - Long-standing state law permits California ’s 58 counties to impose and collect a tax on the transfer of ownership in real estate. This is known as a documentary transfer tax. The tax is limited to 55 cents per $500 in property sale (or 0.11 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-004

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

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

Taxing very high-income taxpayers and dedicating revenues to pandemic prevention. [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2021 - Fiscal Effects New Tax Would Increase State Revenues by $500 Million to $1.5 Billion Annually for Ten Years. State revenues from the new tax likely would range from about $500 million to $1.5  billion annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-022

Proposition 51 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2016 - Payments of about $500  million per year for 35 years. Background California Has 8.3  Million Students Enrolled in Public K-14 Education. The public school system from kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) currently has about 6.2  million students, 10,000 schools (including 1,100 charter schools), 950 school districts, and 58 county offices of education.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=51&year=2016

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2025 - The workload imposed by the measure on the State Auditor —recurring audits of all 58 counties and the state —would be a substantial increase in the State Auditor ’s workload that would require a significant expansion of that office.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-007

Local land use planning and zoning. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - The ultimate fiscal effects of the measure on the state and local governments will depend on d ecisions by the state ’s 482 cities and 58 counties. Summary of Fiscal Effects. We estimate that this measure would have the following major fiscal effects.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-011

Local land use. [Ballot]

Oct 15, 2021 - The ultimate fiscal effects of the measure on the state and local governments will depend on decisions by the state ’s 482 cities and 58 counties. Summary of Fiscal Effects. We estimate that this measure would have the following major fiscal effects.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-016

Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2016 [Ballot]

Mar 6, 2015 - Under these assumptions, the average payment would be about $500  million per year. Annual debt service payments would ramp up in the initial few years, peak at $585 million per year, and ramp down in the final few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-005