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

Transportation funding, Amendment #1. [Ballot]

Jun 26, 2017 - The legislation also schedules $706  million to repay over a three-year period —starting in 2017-18 —certain loans that were made in prior years from various special transportation funds to the state General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-004

Transportation-related taxes. [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2017 - After 2017-18, the share of revenues going to state highways and local streets and roads increases somewhat compared to other programs. Proposal Requires Voter Approval to Raise Specified Transportation Taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-033

A proposed constitutional and statutory initiative related to poverty reduction. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2015 - The surcharge would be collected from 2017-18 through 2036-37. In 2017-18, the surcharge likely would raise between $6  billion and $7  billion. Surcharge revenue amounts in future years would be expected to generally grow over time (in nominal terms).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-043

Proposition 56 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2016 - Over $1  Billion in Increased Funding in 2017-18, Mostly for State Health Programs. Figure  5 estimates the amount of funding each program and government agency would receive from the new tax revenues in 2017-18.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=56&year=2016

Homeowners and renters tax relief. [Ballot]

Jun 22, 2015 - This measure amends the State Constitution to increase the homeowners ’ property tax exemption from $7,000 to $32,000, effective January 2017. This would increase a typical homeowner ’s exemption from around $80  to roughly $365 per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-028

Estate taxes and financial aid for college. [Ballot]

Nov 30, 2017 - Systemwide tuition and fees for the academic year are generally highest at UC ($12,630 for a full-time undergraduate in the 2017-18 academic year) and lowest at CCC ($1,380 for a f ull-time credit student in 2017-18).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-038

Increases excise taxes on the distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products and applies the tobacco products excise tax to electronic cigarettes (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Nov 30, 2015 - Our estimate of the allocatio n of new excise tax revenues in 2017-18 (the first full-year impact) is shown in Figure  2. After backfilling losses in existing tax revenue (described in more detail below), the new cigarette excise tax would generate an estimated $1  billion to $1.4  billion in net revenue in 2017-18 for the purposes described in the measure.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-081

Amend the Constitution to allow and facilitate future, but unknown, legislative actions that could substantially increase state healthcare spending and associated tax revenues. [Ballot]

Oct 9, 2017 - In 2017, state legislators introduced Senate Bill (SB) 562, which aims to eliminate commercial health insurance and replace the existing healthcare system with a government-administered single-payer healthcare program.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-019

Personal finance education. [Ballot]

Oct 25, 2023 - A 2017 survey found that most school districts require an additional year of math and about half of the state ’s school districts set their minimum graduation requirements to match the course requirements for admission to the state ’s public universities (known as the “A-G ” requirements).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-022