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

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

Innocent Human Life [Ballot]

Feb 2, 2015 - Many of the words used in this proposed ini tiative are legally ambiguous and potentially open to broad interpretation, given that these words in question are not defined in the initiative. Consequently, while the full scope of the changes resulting from this initiative is highly uncertain and would depend on how the initiative is interpreted and applied by the courts, the full scope of changes is pot entially very broad.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2014-012

Proposition 35 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - In other words, the health plan tax revenue reduces costs to the state General Fund. Increasing Funding for Medi-Cal and Other Health Programs. Some of the revenue increases funding for Medi-Cal and other health programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=35&year=2024

The President of California Act [Ballot]

May 14, 2015 - File No. 15-0013) that replaces the word “Governor ” with   “President ” in the California Constitution. Background Governor. The chief executive of state or regional government in every state, commonwealth, and territory of the United States of America is referred to as Governor.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-013

Nationhood status and possible secession from the U.S. [Ballot]

Aug 28, 2015 - Quadrennial "Nationhood Referenda. " A statute proposed by this measure would place before California 's voters every four years a "nationhood referendum, " asking whether California "should acquire the exclusive power to make its laws, levy its taxes and establish its own relations abroad —in other words, sovereignty —and at the same time to maintain with United States an
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-037

The rights of individuals to make “fully free and informed” health decisions. [Ballot]

Nov 18, 2021 - Many of the words used in this initiative —such as “medical procedure ” —are undefined and potentially open to very broad interpretation. In addition, the fiscal effects would depend heavily on how certain provisions would be implemented and how variou s economic sectors and individuals might respond in the long term.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-025