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

Jan 20, 2026 - Such executives may be subject to penalties of up to $10 million per violation. In addition, certain willful misconduct —such as unauthorized expansion of AI capabilities or obstruction of investigations —would be punishable as a felony, with potential imprisonment of up to five years and fines of up to $10 million, or an amount equal to twice the financial gains resulting from the misconduct.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

Elections and the initiative process. [Ballot]

Mar 23, 2026 - File No. 26-0001). Background Citizen Initiatives. The State Constitution allows voters to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution through the citizen initiative process. Before an initiative can go to a statewide vote, supporters of citizen initiatives must collect a specified number of signatures to qualify the proposal for the ballot.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2026-001

The government plan of California. [Ballot]

Mar 31, 2026 - File 26-0002 (which would create a new process for adopting constitutional revisions). The changes would encompass changes to the justice system, elections, education, safety-net programs, and others.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2026-003

Revising the State Constitution. [Ballot]

Mar 24, 2026 - File 26-0002). Generally, constitutional revisions change a large number of provisions or entail far reaching changes to the fundamental government plan of the state. Only the Legislature can pro pose constitutional revisions to voters.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2026-002

Property tax rules for inherited property. [Ballot]

Jan 21, 2026 - Over time, these revenue losses would grow by 5 to 10 percent per year. About half of the revenue losses would go to cities, counties, and special districts. The other half would go to schools. In some years, the state could face additional cost pressures to provide mon ey to schools to offset their revenue losses.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-035

Special taxes. [Ballot]

Jan 27, 2026 - The measure would require these audits to (1) evaluate each program that would receive funding from the special tax contained in the proposed initiative and (2) address specific issues identified by the measure including assessing the efficiency of the program and recommending how the audited program could reduce its annual costs by 10 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-040

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

Jan 20, 2026 - If initial registration fees are insufficient to establish the commission, the State Controller may advance up to $10 million from the General Fund, to be repaid with interes t within three years of the first annual assessments.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-034