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

California labor law violations. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2021 - On the other hand, trial courts could receive an increased number of appeals of Labor Com missioner decisions or an increased number of class-action lawsuits or other civil filings that otherwise would have been pursued as PAGA lawsuits.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-027

App-based rideshare and delivery drivers. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2019 - To limit these new costs, rideshare and delivery com panies might hire fewer drivers. These companies also would eventually increase fares and delivery charges to make up for their new costs. Responses by Consumers.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-026

Elections in California. [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2025 - Prior to 2011, qualified citizen initiatives appeared on statewide primary and general election ballots. In 2011, however, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed a law that made citizen initiatives ineligible for statewide primary ballots.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-019

Tribal gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - This is because a federal court previously determined that the payments required by certain tribal-state com pacts into the state ’s General Fund for use at the state ’s discretion generally were an illegal tax prohibited under federal law.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-039

Cultivation, use, possession, and sale of marijuana (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Dec 23, 2015 - Department of Justice (DOJ) is not to prosecute marijuana users and businesses that act in com pliance with state and local marijuana laws so long as those laws are written and enforced in a manner that upholds federal priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-104

Felony sentencing. [Ballot]

Sep 24, 2018 - We note that the measure does not change the dedicated sales tax revenue that the 2011 realignment provides counties for the three realigned felon populations. As a result, countie s would have the same amount of 2011 realignment revenues even though its program responsibilities were now reduced.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2018-008

Local Government Control [Ballot]

Sep 15, 2020 - In 2011, responsibility for incarcerating and supervising certain people convicted of lower-level felonies was shifted —or realigned —from the state to the counties. Before the 2011 realignment, any adult convicted of a felony could be sentenced to state prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2020-002

Transportation and high-speed rail. [Ballot]

Nov 14, 2018 - Specifically, they pay for certain program responsibilities (such as for child welfare and low-inc ome health care) that were shifted from the state to counties in previous years —known as 1991 and 2011 realignment.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2018-010

A national popular vote in presidential elections. [Ballot]

Feb 16, 2017 - Ten states —including California in 2011 —and the District of Columbia have passed legislation to join the National Popular Vote Compact. When a state passes legislation to join the compact, it pledges that all of that state ’s electoral votes will be given to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationwide.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2016-012