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

Oct 20, 2025 - These types of income are closely tied to the stock market and therefore go up and down a lot from year to year. In a weak year, the measure might bring in aroun d $5  billion in revenue. In a strong year, the measure might bring in $15  billion in annual revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-016

Insurance regulation. [Ballot]

Nov 10, 2025 - An insurer could ask the Insurance Commissioner to waive this requirement if the insurer already covers a lot of homes in places with high wildfire risk. Any insurer that repeat edly violates this requirement or stops selling new insurance policies in order to avoid it would be banned from selling property and automobile insurance in California for five ye ars.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-020

Proposition 15 [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2020 - The value of commercial property can change a lot from year to year. This means the amount of increased property taxes also could change a lot from year to year. Decreased Taxes on Business Equipment.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=15&year=2020

Proposes vote on California becoming an independent country. [Ballot]

Apr 5, 2018 - Whether the measure appears on the bal lot would depend on potential legal challenges. For instance, the courts could find the measure to be outside the scope of the statewide voter initiative process, which could preve nt the initiative from going forward.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2018-001

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

Alternative process for local governments to assess fees for flood control, stormwater management, water, and sewer services (Amendment No. 1). [Ballot]

Feb 3, 2016 - Stormwater runoff is generated by rain and snowmelt that flows over land, paved streets, and parking lots, and does not soak into the ground. This runoff picks up pollutants, such as chemicals and oils, that can harm rivers, streams, lakes, and coastal waters.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-116

Constitutional initiative related to medical marijuana. [Ballot]

Sep 8, 2015 - Impedes a patient 's ability to obtain, transport, or cultivate marijuana, so long as (1)  the method of obtaining, cultivating, or transporting marijuana is consistent with the business practices and/or cultivation practices used for other non-prohibited flora in the l aw ’s jurisdiction, and (2) no medical marijuana business or cultivation activities occur within 600  feet of a K-12 school, unless approved by local authorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-044

Proposition 16 [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2020 - State law also has a number of antidiscrimination provisions that are similar to those in federal l aw. Policies and Programs Created or Modified After Proposition  209. After voters approved Proposition  209, some public entities in California created or modified policies and programs to instead consider characteristics not banned by Proposition  209.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=16&year=2020

Cultivation, use, possession, and sale of marijuana [Ballot]

Jun 11, 2015 - This is because many individuals who are currently purchasing marijuana illegally could begin purchasing it legally under state l aw at businesses that collect such taxes. In addition, the state would also receive revenue from excise taxes imposed on recreational marijuana by the measure.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-024

Medical Malpractice Cases [Ballot]

Nov 15, 2019 - As noted previously, when Medi-Cal has paid for health benefits provided to a beneficiary injured by medical malpractice, it may recover a portion of medical malpractice damages aw arded to the beneficiary to reimburse the state costs of these benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-018