Proposed constitutional initiative regarding how Californians vote and the composition of the State Senate. [Ballot]

Oct 9, 2019 - Some local governments i n California —Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Leandro —use an alternative voting method referred to as ranked-choice voting. Under ranked-choice voting, voters rank candidates from their first to last choice.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-013

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

Dec 26, 2023 - To be eligible for UC admission, entering freshmen must have completed certain high school courses, generally have obtained high grade point averages (GPA), and generally rank among the top of their graduating high school class.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-034

Congressional districts in California. [Ballot]

Dec 29, 2025 - The 2021 maps were used in the 2022 and 2024 congressional elections. Proposition  50 (2025). In November 2025, California voters approved Proposition  50, replacing the 2021 maps with new legislatively drawn congressional district maps (Proposition  50 maps).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-031

Housing assistance program for certain University of California employees. [Ballot]

Oct 27, 2025 - Created in 2022, the California Dream for All (DFA) program offers down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers with incomes below a certain level (150  percent of the area median income). The California Housing Finance Authority administers this program.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-018

Proposition 50 [Ballot]

Nov 4, 2025 - Census and have been used since the 2022 congressional elections. PROPOSAL California ’s Congressional District Maps Use Legislatively Drawn Congressional District Maps Until After the Next Census. Proposition  50 replaces California ’s current congressional district maps with new, legislatively drawn maps.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025

Splitting California into three new U.S. states. [Ballot]

Oct 9, 2017 - The per capita personal income of the new state of Northern California was about $63,000 in 2015 —ranking it approximately 2 nd among all the states by this measure, or about $6,000 below top-ranked Connecticut.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-018

The President of California Act [Ballot]

May 14, 2015 - In California, the Gove rnor has  many powers and responsibilities, including:   signing into law or vetoing  legislation passed by the Legislature, preparing and submitting to the Legislature an annual budget detailing state governmental revenues and expenditures, and nominating individu als to serve in high ranking positions in state government.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-013

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

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