Personal income tax rates for high-income taxpayers. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2025 - In 2016, voters approved Proposition  55 to extend these higher rates until 2030. The top 2  percent of California taxpayers pay these higher rates. These taxpayers pay about half of all state income taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-016

Local land use planning and zoning. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - State laws enacted since 2016 that would be affected by this measure aimed to reduce barriers to housing de velopment. If cities and counties adopt zoning and land use laws that restrict housing development, housing costs could increase and potentially constrain economic growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-011

Climate change. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - (The state met this goal in 2016.) 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-012

Personal finance education. [Ballot]

Oct 25, 2023 - In 2016-17 (the most recent year for which statewide data are available), less than 1 percent of high school students in California took a stand-alone personal finance course. No Specific Credentialing Requirements for Personal Finance Educators.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-022

Revenue from paper and reusable carryout bag sales. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2015 - A referendum regarding SB 270 qualified for the November 2016 ballot, which means that the law will be voted on for approval or rejection by the voters. If the referendum passes, t he law will be upheld.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-074

Landfills. [Ballot]

Aug 22, 2023 - To further reduce methane emissions from landfills, a 2016 law required CalRecycle to adopt regulations that reduce statewide organic waste disposal in landfills to 75  percent of 2014 levels by 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-006

Proposition 55 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2016 - Similarly, in order to produce the spending estimates required by the measure, the Director of Finance would have to make assumptions about how spending on programs that were in place as of Ja nuary 1, 2016 would have changed over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=55&year=2016

Private legal actions that enforce state labor laws. (Version 1) [Ballot]

Nov 28, 2017 - In 2016, employees filed approximately 32,000 wage claims. When an employee files a claim with the Labor Commissioner, staff hold an informal conference with the employee and employer to resolve the dispute.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-035

State income taxes and various charges collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles. [Ballot]

Nov 1, 2017 - In 2016-17, personal income tax revenue was $83  billion and corporation tax revenue was $10  billion. Together, these two taxes account for a little more than three-quarters of the state ’s total annual General Fund revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-031

Related to collecting signatures for initiative petitions and proposing laws in the Legislature. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2015 - The project is expected to be completed by July 2016. Once fully operational, VoteCal will be the official system of record for voter registration in the state. The system is expected to cost more than $90  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-042