Immunology and immunotherapy. [Ballot]

Dec 17, 2025 - Medical R &D. Approximately 65 percent of medical R &D funding in the United States comes from private industry. The federal government is the next largest contributor, accounting for about 25 percent of R &D funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-026

Insurance regulation. [Ballot]

Nov 10, 2025 - For example, CDI would have one-time costs for rulemaking and ongoing costs to review waiver r equests from insurers. These costs could be paid by CDI charging insurers additional fees. Changes in Insurance Tax Revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-020

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - For example, California-based companies could make changes to their r esearch, development, or investment decisions in response to the measure ’s oversight and compliance requirements. If such changes affect company profits or employment levels in California, it would affect state and local tax revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

Oversight of certain frontier artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - For example, California-based companies could make changes to their r esearch, development, or investment decisions in response to the measure ’s oversight and compliance requirements. If such changes affect company profits or employment levels in California, it would affect state and local tax revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-034

Research and development involving certain psychedelic substances (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Sep 7, 2023 - R &D Is Funded by a Few Main Sources. Both the private and public sectors fund R &D. Private businesses collectively contribute the greatest amount toward R &D. In 2021, businesses collectively contributed nearly 75  percent of the estimated $792  billion in R &D funding nationally.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-013

Sports wagering. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - At minimum, these regulations must limit wagering to (1) bets made by people age of 21 and older; (2) professional or college sporting events that do not include animals other than horses; and (3) amateu r sporting events that do not include children under the age of 18.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-031

Felony sentencing. [Ballot]

Dec 14, 2021 - If the person has one previous serious or violent felony conviction, the sentence for any new felony conviction (not just a serious or violent felony) is twice the term otherwise r equired under law for the new conviction.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-035

The extraction and recovery of oil and gas, as well as fossil fuel consumption. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2021 - The exact cost is unknown and would depend on several factors, including the numbe r of wells owned by companies that become insolvent before plugging their wells, the outcomes of legal actions, and the future costs to plug abandoned wells.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-028

Managed care organization tax. [Ballot]

Oct 27, 2023 - The tax does not apply to othe r kinds of people MCOs enroll, such as people in the Medicare program. The MCO Tax Imposes Relatively Small Cost on MCOs … For the portion of the tax associated with Medi-Cal enrollment, Medi-Cal covers the cost of the tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-024

Theft crimes. [Ballot]

Jan 12, 2022 - Because this measure would undo certain r eductions in punishment for petty theft and shoplifting enacted by Proposition  47, this measure would reduce the state savings attributable to Proposition  47.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-041