Creating a new online university administered by the University of California (UC). [Ballot]

Dec 26, 2023 - In 2022-23, approximately 15 percent of UC undergraduate courses were taught using an online or hybrid format. (Comparable data is not available for UC graduate courses.) In 2022-23, approximately one-third of CSU instruction was provided using an online or hybrid format.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-034

Restrictions on certain oil drilling permits (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Sep 21, 2023 - In 2022, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law Chapter 365 of 2022 (SB 1137, Gonzalez), which restricts CalGEM from issuing certain oil well permits within desig nated health protection zones.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-014

Use of school, college, and university sex-segregated facilities and student participation in athletic programs and activities based on their gender identity. [Ballot]

Oct 17, 2023 - Less than 1  percent of CCC students, faculty, and staff identified as gender nonbinary in fall 2022. California State University (CSU). While there is limited data on the number of transgender and nonbinary students across all CSU schools, some individual CSU schools reported having less than 1  percent of enrolled transgender, gender nonbinary, or students whose gender
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-019

Proposition 1 [Ballot]

Mar 5, 2024 - As of January 2022, there were 171,500 people who were experiencing homelessness in California. Of this total, 10,400 were veterans. State Program Provides Money to Turn Hotels, Motels, and Other Buildings Into Housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=1&year=2024

California Children’s Services (CCS) program. [Ballot]

Dec 12, 2023 - Specifically, the measure adopts DHCS ’s formal rules and guidance as written on January 1, 2022. The department also would be required every five years to work with stakeholders to determine whether to add more qualifying diseases to the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-029

Taxpayer protection and government accountability. [Ballot]

Jan 19, 2022 - Any fee approved between January 1, 2022 and the effective date of this measure would be nullified unless it fulfills the requirements of the measure. Some New State and Local Fees Could Not Exceed Actual Costs.  
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-042

Climate change. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - The state updated the limit in 2016 to 40  percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and further reduced it in 2022 to an objective of at least 85  percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2045. Emissions will need to decline much faster than historical trends in order to meet these goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-012

Legislative districts. [Ballot]

Apr 13, 2017 - The measure also specifies that the compensation for each Senator and Assembly Member elected after 2022 shall be $1 per year and the compensation for each member of t he Working Committees elected after 2022 shall be equal to 120  percent of the median California household income.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-002

Cannabis and certain psychedelic drugs. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - Both adult use and medicinal cannabis are subject to a 15 percent state excise tax, which generated over half a billion dollars in revenue in 2022-23. This revenue is used for designated purposes, including: (1) cannabis regulatory and administrative costs; (2) cannabis-related research; (3) programs to discourage substance use by youth; (4) programs addressing environmental damage from unlicensed cannabis cultivation; and (5) public safety related activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-032

Proposition 1 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2022 - However, in June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the U.S. Constitution does not protect the right to abortion. As such, states now have more flexibility to decide whether to allow, limit, or ban abortions.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=1&year=2022