Prohibit new taxes on financial assets and other personal property. [Ballot]

Jan 27, 2026 - Financial Assets Are Not Taxed. Many types of personal property are not taxed. One major type of personal property that is not taxed is financial assets like stocks. Proposal No New Taxes on Financial Assets or Other Personal Property.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-041

Oversight of certain nonprofit charities and related entities. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - Examples of such actions include the shutting down of the charity, a merger with another entity, and the sale or transfer of substantially all of the charity ’s assets. (Assets generally refer to anything of value —including land, work products, and patents —owned by an organization.)
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-032

Health insurer financial reserves. [Ballot]

Jan 5, 2018 - For the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, it might be difficult to reduce assets sufficiently to come under the reserve cap, since such a significant portion of it s assets are in the form of property and equipment.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-048

Funding for California’s health care safety net. [Ballot]

Jan 3, 2018 - A large share of high-income filers ’ income is derived from capital gains on asset sales. Future amounts of these gains —and thus revenue raised by the initiative —would depend on the future values of stocks and other real and financial assets, which are volatile and difficult to predict.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-047

Estate taxes and financial aid for college. [Ballot]

Nov 30, 2017 - Estates include assets such as stocks, real estate, bonds, cash, and business holdings. The tax also applies to some gifts (money and property items) given to others from the estate. The federal estate tax does not apply to certain items, such as assets transferred to a surviving spouse.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-038

The right to boycott or engage in other activities to express opposition to the policies of the state of Israel toward Palestinians. [Ballot]

Sep 30, 2025 - Boycotts (refusing to do business), divestment (selling assets or withdrawing money), or sanctions (financial or other punitive actions) against countries, organizations, businesses, or individuals have been used to express opposition to or seek change in policies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-011

Proposed statutory initiative to create a statewide public electrical utility. [Ballot]

Oct 14, 2015 - For example, the long-run fiscal effects would depend on how the measure impacts electricity rates, which could vary widely depending on many different factors, including specific decisions made by the district ’s governing board and legal determinations regarding the value of any assets that the district acquires from IOUs through eminent domain proceedings.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-056

California Electrical Utility District Act [Ballot]

Feb 26, 2015 - For example, the long-run fiscal effects would depend on how the measure impacts electricity rates, which could vary widely depending on many different factors, including specific decisions made by the district ’s governing board and legal determinations regarding the value of any assets that the district acquires from IOUs through eminent domain proceedings.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-002

Cultivation, possession, and sale of marijuana. Version 6 [Ballot]

Feb 5, 2016 - Effects on Fine and Asset Forfeiture Revenues. The measure could reduce state and local revenues from the collection of the fines established in current law for marijuana offenses and the assets that are forfeited in some criminal marijuana cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-119

Cultivation, possession, and sale of marijuana. Version 7 [Ballot]

Feb 5, 2016 - Effects on Fine and Asset Forfeiture Revenues. The measure could reduce state and local revenues from the collection of the fines established in current law for marijuana offenses and the assets that are forfeited in some criminal marijuana cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-120