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

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2025 - Voters can choose to vote by filling out and putting their VBM ballot in the mail, dropping the VBM ballot off at a b allot drop off location, or casting a ballot in person at a voting location. Of the about 16  million people who voted in California in the November 2024 Presidential General Election, about 13  million voted using a VBM ballot and about 3  million voted in person at a voting location.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-007

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Oct 4, 2023 - Voters can choose to vote by filling out and putting their VBM ballot in the mail, dropping the VBM ballot off at a b allot drop off location, or casting a ballot in person at a voting location. If a voter chooses to vote in person, they must sign a list of registered voters prior to voting.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-016

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

Online sports wagering. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2021 - Assuming this measure appears on the November 2022 ballot and is approved b y voters, this authorization would begin January 1, 2023, with wagering becoming publicly available no later than the end of August 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-017

Funding for students attending private schools and homeschool. [Ballot]

Sep 27, 2021 - Some of these reductions would b e direct. For example, schools serving meals to fewer students would receive smaller federal reimbursements. Some reductions would be indirect. For example, districts probably would not lose federal funding for low-income students, but they would need to use more of that funding for private school students.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-006

Public sector unions and collective bargaining. [Ballot]

Sep 28, 2021 - Alternatively, to the extent that workload allows, employers could choose not to b ackfill these vacated positions. In both cases, the measure would result in savings that otherwise would have occurred over time from natural turnover to instead occur sooner.  
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-008