Ethnic studies course at the California State University. [Ballot]

May 15, 2025 - The measure directs CSU to coll aborate with certain CSU faculty groups to develop core competencies for the ethnic studies courses, with the faculty groups needing to approve those core competencies before the s tart of the 2030-31 academic year.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-003

Proposition 33 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - This law lasts until 2030. State Law Limits Local Rent Control.  Another state law, known as the   Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act  (Costa-Hawkins), limits local rent control laws in three main ways.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024

Raising the personal income taxes for certain households to fund zero-emission vehicle programs and wildfire-related activities. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - This tax increase would end the earliest of: (1)  January 1, 2043 or (2)  beginning January 1, 2030, the January 1 following three consecutive calendar years in which statewide greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 80  percent below 1990 levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-037

Climate change. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - 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. Emissions will need to decline much faster than historical trends in order to meet these goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-012

Raising taxes on certain corporations to fund zero-emission vehicle programs and wildfire-related activities. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - This tax increase would end the earliest of: (1)  January 1, 2043 or (2)  beginning January 1, 2030, the January 1 following three consecutive calendar years in which statewide greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 80  percent below 1990 levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-038

Landfills. [Ballot]

Aug 22, 2023 - These include a state law requiring statewide GHG emissions to be limited to 40  percent below 1990 levels by 2030. GHGs include gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Landfills produce methane emissions when organic waste —such as food scraps, wood, and paper —decompose.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-006

Local rent control laws. [Ballot]

Feb 10, 2023 - This law lasts until January 1, 2030. State and Local Government Tax Revenues.  Three taxes are the largest sources of tax revenue for the state and local governments in California —personal income tax, property tax, and sales tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2022-008

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

Sep 7, 2023 - The state ’s annual General Fund payments would commence in 2030. State Could Receive Some Revenue From New Discoveries. If TREAT award recipients discover new drugs, the state would receive some associated revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-013

Proposition 21 [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2020 - This law lasts until January 1, 2030. State and Local Government Tax Revenues.  Three taxes are the largest sources of tax revenue for the state and local governments in California —personal income tax, property tax, and sales tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=21&year=2020

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

Nov 23, 2021 - Legislation enacted in 2016 established the goals for California to reduce its GHG emissions to 40  percent below 1990 levels by 2030. In addition, legislation enacted in 2018 established a state policy that all retail electricity sold in California will be from renewable and ze ro-carbon resources by 2045.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-028