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

Limiting pay for administrators at hospitals and physician groups. [Ballot]

Sep 22, 2025 - According to a past study, executives at nonprofit hospitals earned an average salary of $600,000 in 2018. This amount was around three to six times the average pay for executives in most other nonprofit sectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-009

Affordable housing bonds. [Ballot]

Jan 3, 2022 - For example, between 2018 and 2020, affordable housing bond measures totaling $785  million received the necessary two-thirds voter approval. During the same period, over $1.6  billion of proposed bonds received over 50  percent but less than two-thirds voter approval and therefore were not approved.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-040

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

Nov 23, 2021 - 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. More recently, the state established a policy in 2018 that all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California should be zero-emission vehicles by 203 5, and all heavy-duty trucks should be zero-emission by 2045.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-028

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

Spousal support. [Ballot]

Jul 5, 2022 - State trial courts received nearly 122,000 petitions for divorce, annulment, or legal separation in 2018-19 (most recent data unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic). Spousal Support Payments and Other Issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2022-004

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

California Public Utilities Commission and wildfires. [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2021 - As of 2018, the maximum grant level was $34,000, which is adjusted annually based on inflation. Total IHP payments for expenses related to 2020 wildfires in California were about $28 million. State Supplemental Grant Program (SSGP).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-020