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

Proposition 36 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - Requires Warning of Possible Murder Charges for Selling or Providing Drugs Proposition  36 requires courts to warn people that they could be charged with murder if they sell or provide illegal drugs that kill someone.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024

Drug crimes. [Ballot]

Oct 25, 2023 - Requires Warning of Future Criminal Liability for People Convicted of Drug Distribution. The measure requires courts to warn people convicted of distributing certain illegal drugs (such as fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine) that illegal drugs can be deadly.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-023

Drug and theft crimes. [Ballot]

Oct 11, 2023 - Requires Warning of Future Criminal Liability for People Convicted of Drug Distribution. The measure requires courts to warn people convicted of distributing certain illegal drugs (such as fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine) that illegal drugs can be deadly .
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-017

California labor law violations. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2021 - On the other hand, trial courts could receive an increased number of appeals of Labor Com missioner decisions or an increased number of class-action lawsuits or other civil filings that otherwise would have been pursued as PAGA lawsuits.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-027

Tribal gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - This is because a federal court previously determined that the payments required by certain tribal-state com pacts into the state ’s General Fund for use at the state ’s discretion generally were an illegal tax prohibited under federal law.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-039

Cannabis and certain psychedelic drugs. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - The measure requires that entheogenic plants, substances, and businesses be regulated as closely as practicable to “non-psychoactive agriculturally produced products, ” except that it would impose specific requirements for product labeling, such as mandating a warning to keep the substance out of the reach children and animals.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-032