Proposition 36 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - For example, shoplifting (stealing items worth $950 or less from a store) and drug possession generally became misdemeanors. Proposal Proposition  36 makes several key changes related to punishments for theft and drug crimes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024

Theft crimes. [Ballot]

Jan 12, 2022 - Proposition  47 also generally requires that shoplifting (stealing property worth $950 or less from a commercial establishment) be punished as a misdemeanor —rather than a wobbler as was possible before.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-041

Drug and theft crimes. [Ballot]

Oct 11, 2023 - For example, prior to Proposition  47, possession of illegal drugs for personal use and shoplifting (stealing property worth $950 or less from a commercial establishment) could be punished as felonies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-017

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

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